Category: Science & Geeks
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Internet Explorer – Accept the update
Microsoft published today a large Security Update for Internet Explorer. This happens nearly every month, but this time, this is really important. Whatever your version of Internet Explorer, you should upgrade now, via Windows Update. Microsoft is correcting a major bug in all versions of Internet Explorer and it is urgently important that you plug…
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Stacey Whaley, fractals
Stacey Whaley is a painter using the most modern tools available and depending heavily on the mathematical principles of fractals (those graphical figures that tend to repeat themselves at different scales when you zoom in or zoom out). In most cases, when people follow this path, the result is quite predictable and there are a…
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WordPress 2.7, tomorrow
It is said that the new version of WordPress, the open-source website operating software will arrive tomorrow. It is currently in version beta/RC. It will bring a new greatly improved administration panel. Download from WordPress.org.
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Find your PC weaknesses
Isn’t it somewhat difficult to continuously check the status of security updates for the many software programs we have installed on our PCs, sometimes not even knowing it? Here comes Secunia PSI to help in this daunting task. It permanently observes the version of the programs on your PC and verifies if there is an…
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Big camera?
Certainly! Here comes a photo camera with 1400 mega-pixels. This is the camera installed in Hawai in the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) telescope. I say that when Kirkland AFB builds a photo camera, Canon, Nikon, Sony and the others should bow and admire. Source: Really Rocket Science.
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WordPress transfer
In the end, transfering a WordPress installation from one server to the next will not have been a simple task. As a matter of fact, moving the files, moving the database, seemed to be the easiest. But I could no longer upload images in WordPress. Here is what I had to do (and you may…
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Mechanical elephant
Andrew Chase designed a strange mechanical elephant. It works, it’s articulted. Weird! Source: Baekdal.com.
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Test your color vision
Are you colour-blind like 5% of European male population? This is the question that will receive an answer here. You will even know the exact form of colour-blindness is yours when browsing to test your colour vision. You will have to check little images like the one here and indicate what you see (not everybody…
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Wallpapers: Quality photos
It is always more pleasant to work with a nice wall paper on your PC (or Mac) desktop. Here are two interesting source sof beautiful wallpapers based on photographic quality images: dozens of nature-oriented images (including some cartoons) on UsingMac.com; ligthning and storms (15 images). Downright spectacular.