Category: Software
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WordPress 2.3 will come on September 20th
WordPress is currently preparing a new version 2.3 that will bring new possibilities to work together (multi-author blogs and web sites) and to enrich the articles/posts. We should see the final 2.3 version on September 20th.
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Download Microsoft Office for free (on Apple Mac)
Really! Who would like to have Microsoft Office. It’s expensive. If you donwload it for free, it’s just illegal. However, you can download the excellent Neo Office for OS/X (a Mac OS/X port of OpenOffice). It’s now available.
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No digital noise photography
Guillermo Luijk has a very interesting technique to remove completely all noise from digital photos. We know that this is a difficult task, but his solution is defenitely worth trying. It is relatively simple. The steps are: Shot the scene in a correct exposure according to our usual workflow Repeat the shot now reducing shutter…
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Download free PC games: FarCry, Prince of Persia, …
Just spotted: A few excellent games to download freely from FilePlanet. Free version: FarCry (I recommend heavily this excellent FPS, I still play with it) Free version: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Free version: Rayman Raving Rabbids Apparently, this is ad-supported so you have to accept a little annoyance and to have an account…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. faster, less easily
Faster: The most recent patch (1.004) of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl video game is remarkable because it accelerates notably the performance of this game on your PC without changing its hardware configuration. Less easily: It was forecasted to have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl in download on Steam, the game distribution system from…
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A faster OpenOffice
Rather than downloading a pirated copy of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), I keep repeating that you should try a free download of OpenOffice. But some people complain that it is too slow. I am not of this opinion, but I found a post about how to accelerate OpenOffice on an Ubuntu GNU/Linux. But this…
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Nouvelle fonctionalité : articles similaires
You may remark (or may not) the appearance of a new feature on this web site: on each individual post page, there is now a little list of similar articles. It is intended to help you discover new articles that you may not know but are related to the post your are reading at this…
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Linux boot sequence in image
The bootchart utility is able to produce a simple PNG image of the boot sequence of your GNU/Linux configuration. Installation is a snap: sudo apt-get install bootchart The result is a nice little thing like:
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How to visit freely some paying web sites
This is really not complicated, many web sites (even subscription-based) want to be indexed by Google. To this end, they recognize the Google spider and give it priviliged access rights. Why not try to disguise yourself as the most well known search engine of the world? Simple: Modify your browser identification string? Simple, but not…