Category: Software

  • Benoît Mandelbrot, RIP

    Benoît Mandelbrot, RIP

    The creator of the fractal concept, Benoît Mandelbrot, just died. Born in Poland, the great mathematician had both French and American citizenship and inspired millions of mathematicians and artists. Rechercher des fractales sur Google.

  • Bloglines: This is the end

    Bloglines: This is the end

    Not everybody knows Bloglines, but this is an excellent RSS aggregator that I have been using for several years already to quickly check and track efficiently a large number of information sources (and efficiency is a key factor when you read 165 web sites simultaneously not accepting to spend your life and nights to it).…

  • Best locations for wallpapers

    Best locations for wallpapers

    You find them anywhere and everywhere, but it’s not always worth the visit. To find a beautiful wallpaper for your computer (even more if it has seevral screens), you need to find reliable sources of nice wallpapers. I wrote down a few of the best ones here: The wallpaper section of National Geographic Digital Blasphemy…

  • Color blind: This is for everybody

    Color blind: This is for everybody

    When designing web sites, many graphic artists over-design forgetting a little-known fact: Around 5% or male Europeans or Caucasians have some sort of color blindness. For most of them it is only a small hindrance, but in some conditions it can become quite annoying. For example, when a web designer relied too heavily on color…

  • Steam: Garage sale

    Steam: Garage sale

    Before the 4th of July, Steam is selling many a video game (more than 200 of them) at a basement prices. The list is impressive and means that it is not even worth pirating the said games. Call of Duty collection: -78% Serious Sam pack: -75% Aliens vs. Predators: -75% Resident Evil: -75% Grand Theft…

  • The future of Natal/Kinect

    The future of Natal/Kinect

    You know! Kinect is the new name of the Microsoft technology that allows you to completely forget about keyboard, joysticks, game pads and all that. You move in front of the camera and the stuff does its stuff. Previously, it was known as Project Natal. Today, I found this great cartoon from Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim…

  • Pixel Culture

    Pixels by patrick Jean – Invasion pixels : geek tetris pacman ! YouTube link

  • Create your own PDF files for free

    Thanks to Print2pdf from Software 602, a free PDF production utility, you will be able to master nearly everything you wanted to do when creating a PDF file without asking Adobe for their expensive software solution. YouTube link There are other tools for this, but Print2PDF allows both production on your Windows PC and on-line.…

  • Manage your process priorities in Win7

    Manage your process priorities in Win7

    You may not know it but all processes and all programs are not running with the same energy in your Windows-based computer. There is something named “process priorities” that manages which program will run first or will run with the most direct access to the CPU. photo credit: Ioan Sameli All this goes quite transparently,…