Month: December 2007
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Use your iPhone to access the Internet from your PC laptop
Thanks to LifeHacker, and if you have the following, you will be able to use your iPhone to access Internet from your laptop. A computer with Wi-Fi capable of creating an ad-hoc computer-to-computer connection (yours is) A jailbroken iPhone (If you don’t know how to jailbreak your iPhone, the easiest way is to make sure…
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Cocoi heron
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them In my eyes, this is one of the nicest great herons, despite being very common in Brazil. Cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi, héron cocoï).
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Whistling Heron
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix, Héron flûte-du-soleil). Shot in Brazil, 2007.
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Master your D-SLR, LifeHacker guides
LifeHacker published a series of articles about the basics of a Digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. It’s worth reading if you are not pro-photographer. Part 1 : Program mode Part 2 : Manual mode It could be useful to quickly master your latest Christmas gift.
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Illusion of a perspective
Wrong perspective, optical illusion, mistake of the drawing hand? Along similar lines, more brillant, here is a cool graphical work from Daniel Martinez Lara and Kike Oliva. And, finally, the engraving from Escher that inspired one optical illusion and draws from the other’s principles.
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Whale ancestor found
We all knew that the whale was actually a terrestrial mammal gone back to the sea a few million years ago (this is most visible in the presence of vestigial leg bones that are not associated to externally apparent legs or fins), but it was a bit difficult to say exactly what the ancestor looked…
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Did you backup?
A backup, this is nearly nothing. But it can help you, it can save you, when disaster will strike. Since when didn’t you backup? Some ideas: Remember to copy the contents of your Flash memory card (even more if you store a lot of JPEG images on your big Flash card) Copy the data files…
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Crysis: The physics engine and 3000 barrels of TNT
Watch what a good level editor can do to Crysis if you really want to push the limits of the physics engine. YouTube link
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New firmware for Sony Alpha 700
For the happy owners of the Sony Alpha 700 Digital SLR camera, I want to tell that there is a new firmware (version 3) available. The improvements are: Bug correction: Resolves an issue where the Access Lamp remains lit and the camera stops responding when several pictures are taken in rapid succession. Bug correction: Resolves…