Category: Tech
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Defragment like a God
Defragmenting your hard disc drive may not be the latest fad, but it still is useful to improve the performance of a disc drive that’s been used for months or years and now looks more like a mouldy swiss cheese than a nice little techo-gadget. The solution: defragmenter your disc drive(s). Here are a few…
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Collection of tutorials for Photoshop and GIMP
I collected a long list of tutorials (mostly in English) on my other photo website: Tutorials for Photoshop and The GIMP.
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Write down everything to ease maintenance
Some have been surprised by one little habit of mine around my PC (I should say ‘my PCs”): I keep a detailled log of everything I do on my PC in a plain old school paper book. It may be a software installation, a parameter change on another software package, the update of a driver.…
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Stepper motors, step-by-step
Stepper motors are nearly everywhere. this is marvellous for happy hobbyists. Even better, you can find them (and extract them from) a large number of devices that are easy to hack like old floppy disk drives, hard discs. For those of you who would ike to know more and keep an eye on the technology,…
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I want to drive on this highway
Presented by Dutch architects NL in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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A few glasses and bottles
I found a few funny, interesting, or surprising glasses or vases that I wanted to share with you. The first ones are coming with a request to drink responsibly:
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Photoshop CS4 vs. The Gimp v2.6
Newsrooms are full of weird coincidences. For example, we just learned that two products often presented as direct competition were launched this Fall. To my right, here is Adobe with its boxing champion, Photoshop, loaded up to version CS4. To my left, Linux and its community of free developpers pushing the challenger on the ring,…
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Airbus A380 brake test
This is difficult to stop a big chunk of a plane like the Airbus A380. Let’s see what happens to brakes when tested at maximum braking stress. YouTube video link
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Sony Alpha 900, Hollywood movie
When a dSLR like the Sony Alpha 900 is presented as if it was a Hollywood movie, we get this result :