Category: Software

  • Free FPS game to play: Daikatana

    Daikatana was a good FPS game for the PC a few years ago, in 2000. The story is of one sword fighter in post-modern tehcnological Japan and gives a little twist to the FPS genre (and some of the adversaries were the strange robotic frogs). Today it is made available for free download from GameTap…

  • Missing codec? CodecInstaller

    Missing codec? CodecInstaller

    If you are downloading a large number of movie files form the Internet, you know that dreaded moment when your media player announces that it does not know what codec to use to read the file. You’ll get either no sound or no image or both. Here comes CodecInstaller.

  • Nikon D300: not cheap, but with free software

    At least during the launch period and in the UK, Nikon will include a free CD-ROM of the Capture NX excellent imaging software in the box of the new Nikon D3 and Nikon D300 cameras. Some people having perceived the price of the Nikon D300 as too high, may be tempted by this offer.

  • Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    We don’t know much about the future successor to the excellent digital single-lens reflex camera Canon EOS 5D (the first D-SLR with a nearly affordable full-frame sensor). It is still uncertain that it’s name will really be EOS 5D Mk II, but it’s now definitely possible since Phase One, editor of the high-end photo retouching…

  • More Crysis madness

    More Crysis madness

    Crysis, the First Person Shooter PC game of the year is already upon us, but the marketing frenzy is not finished and news are pouring in relation with this FPS game. Let’s have a look at what ended up on this desktop and that I’d like to share. Crysis will be part of a trilogy.…

  • Control Linux from afar

    Control Linux from afar

    When you have one computer under GNU/Linux, it is common to have it as a second machine to run experimentations or dedicated to one single task (run one program like BitTorrent, a backup server or a web server, for example). In this case, it is quite pleasant to be able to control it without leaving…

  • Mute your browser

    Sometimes it comes handy to silence your browser. When it opens a Flash media file and starts shouting. Here is FlashMute. It mutes Flash into your browser or all of your browser, leaving the rest of the computer in its normal state.

  • TimeShift, GT review of a FPS game

    Game Trailers, on top of providing a good source for video material distributed by the designers and distributors of video games, has sometimes a good video review of games. Here comes one: TimeShift from Sierra, one of the few First Person Shooters being handed out before Christmas. link to GT videolink to HD video Definitely…

  • No DRM is good for the media business

    Or so it seems from the more recent news I received through different channels these days. First, BluRay BD+ copy protection and DRM system appears to have been cracked. In the latest revision of AnyDVD (a quite well known DVD copying software), there is now an option to handle BD+. It means that even the…