Category: Windows Vista
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Photoshop supports HD Photo format
HD Photo, this is th new name of the image format from Microsoft that they want to replace JPEG, PNG, Raw and GIF. It was previously known -at launch time- as Windows Media Photo and it is now fully integrated into Windows Vista. Adobe Photoshop will support this format through a plugin to donwload from…
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OpenOffice nearly compatible with 2007
OpenOffice, the free desktop suite competing directly against MS Office, reached an important milestone with the availability of version 2.2, Release Candidate 3. This time, we believe, the officiel release of v2.2 is near. Some of the most sensitive improvements were expected by the users: Calc should improve notably the management of dynamic pivot tables…
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Pixels and LCD diagonals
An importance feature to check when considering the size of an LCD screen. The pixels do not always have the same size on all the screens. At some diagonal sizes, the manufacturers just increase the glass surface but not the number of pixels. This is the reason why the French-speaking Hardware.fr web site made a…
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Halo2: Preview and images
Halo2 could well be the marketing vehicle of Vista toward the video game addicts. This FPS game is forecasted in the first half of 2007 (probably just before Summer). Shacknews got a test CD and shows us the images of the preview to make you grow patient if you already have the necesary configuration (Vista…
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PDF Creator, not working with Vista
I had been advising to use PDF Creator to produce PDF files from any program under Windows. It appears that the product does not work with Vista. Even worse, sometimes, it seems that its mere installation is breaking havoc in all Vista printing and when it happens, it may be difficult to uninstall. Just wait…
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Recent posts about RAID storage
RAID storage is using several hard disc drives together to improve the reliability (sometimes the performance) over what can be done with one single disc drive. The recent posts here: Creating a RAID-1 on OpenSUSE Testing RAID-1 on OpenSUSE Software RAID: a question of light
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100 fonts with top character
Again, I come back to the issue of free fonts of great quality. DaFont holds links to hundreds of character fonts readily downlodable for both Mac and PC. Usually, this leads to a bunch of crap fonts. Here, the top 100 list is really of impressive quality. Waltograph is copying Walt Disney’s signature, Evanescence is…
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Vista does not sell because of piracy
Believe it or not, this is what Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, just told to financial analysts. He was trying to explain why the actual sales are already considered as much lower than the initial MS estimation. Apaprently, the most exotic countries (China, Russia, South East Asia) are on the list of the accused. But wouldn’t…
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The Y2K7 bug
On the 1st of January 2000, some people were expecting to see the world crumble because old software applications had been written using dates coded on 2 digits. At the turn of the century (or rather at the change from 99 to 00), there was a need for upgrading/patching applications to support 4-digit years in…