Category: Science & Geeks
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Newsgroups: Freely download big files
While everybody is speaking about downloads under surveillance of law enforcement forces and **AA groups defending the copyrights of music and cinema, I wondered where the download addicts were going now to get their load of big files. I looked into the P2P networks heavily protected by a strong encryption and supposed to guarantee the…
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A Shanghai photo experience
As I am writing this article, I am in Shanghai for a profesionnal trip (my company seems to believe that I can improve some things in our manufacturing plant of Pudong, in the suburbs of this big Chinese city). As an amateur photographer, I took some time for myself to look at some photo opportunities…
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Nearly 1 million American terrorists according to FBI
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 – and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per…
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Turok: worth killing some dinos
After more than 10 years, Turok comes back and you are ready to kill dinosaurs in a video game. The solo mission of this FPS may feel a bit short, but it’s fun enough to be thrilled while killing lizards on your PC screen. HD reviewSD review
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Clear Sky, images and reviews
Like all Internet reviewers, I hate this title because of the strain it puts on the writer just to put the name down on the keyboard. However, it has received a number of reviews. Let’s see some of them: JeuxVideoPC.com (screenshots) GameSpy (in English) CVG (in English) EuroGamer first impressions (in English) IGN (screenshots) Hooked…
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Plenty of tips for food photography
I don’t know why (maybe because I’m looking for them) but I seem to find plenty of posts about optimizing your photography of food. Let’s share some of the best ones here: First, a real collection of them in one place: Big and Tasty Food Photography Tips Roundup. A smaller list of them: The Ten…
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PhotoShop Express online – a few reviews
This was a little event a few days ago: Adobe launched its first beta version of the online PhotoShop under the name of Photoshop Express. As it was easy to predict, it’s not as simple as marketing would like you to believe and you cannot replace one by the other as most of the reviews…
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Great coins for Great Britain
“You’ve got to love those coins!” Do you believe that I could tell you so? Surely not. Even better, you can be surprised to learn that I found that in a web site about design and arts (Baekdal.com). And it is defintely a great design for something as old as coins. The new UK coins…
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Fiction of the day: Security question, by Ramon Rozas III
I found this funny little piece of SciFi/security litterature. I’m sure you’ll like it. The man blurred into existence behind the dense shrubs, and checked a small device he took from his pocket. Since time and date seemed correct, he straightened his sports coat and stepped from behind the bushes. […]