Category: Tech

  • Invisible made visible with the SD14

    The Digital Single Lens Reflex (DLSR) camera SD14 from Sigma is very interesting for the enthusiast amateur of Infra-Red (IR) photo: It has an easily removable IR-rejection filter. This is because Sigma wanted to ease the access to the sensor (and its cleaning operations) but it also brings an easy way to convert in minutes…

  • 10 reasons it doesn’t pay to be “The Computer Guy”

    Shaun Boyd is too clairvoyant about being “The Computer Guy”. Yes! This is more than often a bad idea. And he gives the 10 reasons why. Aren’t we all staying hooked on the phone to help repair a computer we’d just like to see blown to pieces? Some would add: “Don’t tell my mother that…

  • Top 10 anti-censorship methods

    More and more often, accessing the Internet becomes limited by the presence of censoring tools and methods (and I am not speaking of those countries where this has been institutionalized like China, Iran or Tunisia). It may be to avoid your spending too much time idling instead of working or it may be to ensure…

  • 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0, prohibited number

    Since the AACS (the protection of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray against copying) is technically broken, there was only one lock left: after unlocking tools, there was the need for the publication of the needed key to allow easy operation. The MPAA tries to ban this famous key number from the Internet while it keeps popping up…

  • Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    For the Science Fiction fans that stop by this site, here is a new monthly online web site whose #2 is just published. Very good reading material, interesting authors and you can even have your own work published (and be paid for it). Very nice, very pro: Darker Matter.

  • Break your gadgets open on line

    If you are willing to discover the entrails of your prefered technology gadgets but you do not want to loose the advantage of the warranty that goes with your purchase, here is a solution: Go to the web site open by EEtimes that allow you to visit the deepest of many consumer electronic devices that…

  • Review of Sigma 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 EX DG OS

    Review of Sigma 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 EX DG OS

    Most wildlife photo amateurs are very found of long focal length tele-lenses. Quite often, the ideal is to be able to go up to 400mm. However, ideally, we should have a zoom to adapt up from a shorter focal length. These last years, the technology evolved so significantly that there is no doubt the 100-400mm…

  • Heat and photographic equipment

    Electronics and optics of our photo (or video) equipment are relatively sensitive to temperature. This leads us to as the question about its protection against heat. There are plenty of rumours and a lot of bad ideas about the best method to protect your photo camera against heat during a photo safari. Example of a…

  • Internet forums: The whole story in video

    OK! the video does not actually explains, but it translates. For those of you who know Internet forums (of all forms), it’s easy to recognize the local habits. Caution: Not safe for work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge2FHDf_L78This is all best understood when you pull it into real life.