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  • On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

    I really love this sentence that says so much about the freedom and the dangers on the Internet. The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law…

  • E-passports already failing at security tests

    It did not take long: The electronic passport, that several countries actively defend (particularly the United States of America that tell us it will be the ultimate weapon against terrorists and frauders) and are preparing for full distribution, met a string of very significant problems last week in the Black Hat convention of Las Vegas.…

  • Click Monkeys: Google Ads fraud for you

    Advertisments shown by Google on web sites (like mine) are subject to various types of frauds. For example, there are site owners who rush to click their own ads in order to increase their earnings (sometimes using software packages or robots, even if this is prohibited by Google whatever mean you use). There is also…

  • Tips about Jewelry photography

    Stock photography in general, and more specifically taking pictures of shiny little objects like jewels, has always been a difficult task for the amateur and professional photographer alike. Usually, we would look for help from the side of pro photographers. But, I found good advice from jewelers… and plenty of it. Among the tips from…

  • Ban the standby button in UK!

    Her Majesty the Queen Elisabeth II and her royal subjects take energy savings very seriously indeed. They noticed (in a document recently published by the Energy Review) that electrical appliances in sleep mode consume 8% of domestic energy. Let’s admit that this is impressive and tackling with waste cannot be a bad idea. What’s the…

  • Gigantic panoramic windshield

    Gigantic panoramic windshield

    Even better than old-timers panoramic windshields, better than the glass roof of Peugeot or Citroën cars, here comes the gigantic panoramic windshield at GM-Opel-Vauxhall. The new Astra GTC will have a windshield going up to a point far behind the normal position of the driver and allows the Summer sun to enter easily the interior…

  • Make a 100″ Screen for under $100

    This is the great proposal of Evan Powell from ProjectorCentral.com. You don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on a screen for your home cinema, but you still want to have a great screen for projection. So, your new DLP projector needs you to read “Make a 100″ Screen for under $100“.

  • Full frame 24×36 digital sensor

    Full frame 24×36 digital sensor

    Canon shocked the high-end digital camera world when announcing the Canon EOS 5D with its 12 M-pixel sensor of a full 24*36mm (also known as full frame). You lost the 1.5 conversion factor on the focal lenght of lenses, but the user grabbed some very neat advantages: A larger surface used to easily improve the…

  • Sony Alpha A100, first pictures

    Sony Alpha A100, first pictures

    Polish magazine Fotopolis (www.fotopolis.pl) just published some images taken with the new Sony Alpha DSLR A100. They give a very first impression of the image quality of the camera. Essentially, it is impossible to know the exact state of the camera and its embedded software may not be the final version. But the limited quality…