Category: Science & Geeks
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – latest news
It is now official: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be available in our stores on September 5th (very soon, eh!) This should be the reason to go through a last minute list of all the recent screenshots and videos displaying the best images of this FPS game coming from Russia. Interview videos (from VE3D) Screenshots (from…
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Project Origin minimum requirements
Project Origin is the name of the sequel to F.E.A.R. (a frightening FPS game from Monolith). However, because of licensing issues, it will not be named FEAR 2 or anything like it. Nevertheless, this filiation should attract a lot of attention (the story will start just 30 seconds before the explosive end of the previous…
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Free Office Templates
A few templates for documents you would want to use with OpenOffice 3.0 or MS-Office. Microsoft Office 2007 Templates Free legal download.
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Nikon D90 at Target
Indirect confirmation of what we told previously here about the future replacement for the Nikon D80. This new photo camera was “seen” (more or less) on the Target.com web site where a single page is describing it as: Nikon D90 12.3MP Digital SLR w/ 18-105mm No photo, no detailed technical features, but the title confirms…
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Extreme tanks
Even knowing that those are machines created to kill people, you will not be able to keep yourself from laughing or smiling at some of absurdly extreme designs generated by the brains of some military engineers. Source: Dark Roasted Blend.
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Anatomy of an illusion
All the details about a simple optical illusion and what we can learn from it about the inner workings of the human brain.
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Stick any program to the icon tray
Here comes a small freeware utility program that does only one thing, but does it right. Trayconizer is used to put any Windows program into the icon tray (not only the ones allowing it explicitly). For example, you can put the NotePad program in the tray icon with a single shortcut containing something like: C:\Path\To\Trayconizer.exe…
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8 tips for sharp photos
What I do (or should be doing, since -like everybody else- I can’t stick to my good resolutions) in order to obtain beautifully detailled photographs. It’s even more important if you want to make them ready for printing in large size (on your brand new A3 inkjet printer or poster-size at a print shop). A…
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A few LifeHacker posts about Photoshop
I have collected a few posts at LifeHacker that I wanted to share with you because they are concentrating on some easy and powerful techniques to be used with Photoshop. Create Eye Catching Color Effects on Black-and-White Photos Create Photorealistic Reflections in Photoshop Reduce Redundancy by Creating Photoshop Actions