Category: Graphics & display
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Drivers, benchmarks and new products
This is becoming weird. A few years ago, if a graphics card manufacturer brought a version of a graphic driver specially prepared for a specific software, everybody cried wolf and it was a scandal, a benchmark cheat and unwelcome optimisation to favor results on a specific measurement. Today, all this evolved significantly. Did you notice…
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HDMI video projector is all curves
The offering of video projectors is evolving quite quickly at this end of the year. I’d like to give only two examples: Today on the walls of Paris metro there is an offer for a less-than-400€ 800×600 2000-lumen 35dB-noise projector. It is even less expensive than a replacement lamp for my own Sony projector. Today…
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Nikon cannot count
At the launch of the Nikon D300 camera, we learned that it would have an LCD screen of 900,000+ pixels. This seems quite impressive, however, it is a bit misleading. Once again a company decided to count dots on the screen instead of pixels. So, this screen is only a VGA (307,000 pixel LCD). If…
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Best utility for your graphics card
Anandtech has a nice post about the best utility software programs for the owner of a recent graphics card (be it an nVidia or and AMD-ATI). They compare: ATI Catalyst Control Center ATI Tray Tools ATITool nVIDIA Control Panel & nTune RivaTuner nHancer BIOS Flashing options and programs
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Graphics cards, product lines
Today, the market for independent graphics cards on PCIexpress is split between two product lines only: nVidia has setup a long list of boards around the 8×00 moniker (the 8 series). The high-end, 8800 GTS and 8800 GTX, are providing a lot of gaming power. The lower end, 8600 GTS and 8400 are much more…
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Emacs for the Aqua Mac
Aquamacs is a software program in development for two years, but the ambition is quite interesting: Integrate Emacs, the prfered text editor of Roumazeilles.net, into the Aqua environment for Mac. This is an impressive feat because they are at the opposite ends of technology: Aqua is associated to graphics elegance, subtlety and grace allied to…
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LCD display: Repair dead pixels with software
The bane of LCD displays: dead pixels. It is still very uncommon to find display manufacturers who accept to provide a garantee against dead o stuck pixels on their LCD screens. Honestly, this is bordering on abuse knowing that the main objective of the screen is to display several hundred thousands of pixels: Dead pixels…
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Summer PC: Graphics card
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down To start with Easy Penny, the most reasonable PC, the integration of a graphics card inside the motherboard leaves the cost perfectly well managed. Added cost: 0€. Eactly on…
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Color-blindness and software specification
Do you happen to know that 5% of all male population is actually affected by some form of color-blindness (females are much less prone to it). It means that plenty of activities that tend to rely on color identification by the user is significantly flawed for about 2-3% of the user population. This can become…