Category: Software

  • Your OS passwords are not safe

    Your OS passwords are not safe

    You choose your passwords as the most sophisticated and the strongest as you understand the importance to protect your computer. But did you know that this is nearly useless? A few commands and here is your safe password replaced or removed by a mere user, by your youngest nephew. On Windows, it’s enough to use…

  • Blind date, with a Dungeon Master

    You could fully appreciate this video only if you have some experience of Role Playing, but I couldn’t help posting it here. Dungeon Master Atom.com link Stan, this video is partly dedicated to you, the Dungeon Master.

  • Duke Nukem Forever is dead, isn’t it?

    Duke Nukem Forever is dead, isn’t it?

    You have certinaly heard about Duke Nukem Forever, if only because you are interested in PC video games. As a matter of fact, this is (was) a game frist-announced in 1997 as the sequel to Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem II and Duke Nukem 3D (the Duke Nukem trilogy), the last of them being a First…

  • Computer skills

    From GraphJam.

  • PDF-to-Word for free (online tool)

    PDF-to-Word for free (online tool)

    You wanted to get the contents of this PDF file in a usable form. say! a Word document. Here comes PDF-to-Word, touted as “The Most Accurate PDF-to-Word Converter”, which may be quite right. It’s online, it’s free, it’s only 3 steps away: The converted document will arrive directly in your email box. Keen eyes like…

  • JPEG compression abuse

    You know it: JPEG image format allows to compress a photo picture without too much loss. But there is some loss. For real. You want an evidence? Open an image, save it in JPEG; Start over 600 times. The image deterioration will cumulate: Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.

  • Billion years, million years

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  • uTorrent, optimal configuration

    uTorrent, optimal configuration

    While I had a long love affair with BitComet as my prefered BitTorrent client, it happens that I currently prefer to use the lean and clean uTorrent software. It is a bit smaller (but it has a tendency to eat up memory if left serving files for a long time -it’s ok if you stick…

  • Best shorts

    Link love Those are the best links I found recently. I could not write a full post about them, but they are worth visiting: Box.net launches a web-based free word processor (via Download Squad) Histoface: How to hide an image in the histogram of another image Safer Code – Secure Coding In C \ C++…