Category: Social issues

  • OpenOffice.org 3.0: Your free replacement for MS-Office 2007

    OpenOffice.org 3.0 arrives and this is important. As a matter of fact, the free desktop suite (as interesting as the MS-Office suite) shift in high gear. The new features are quite noticeable: Support of MS-Office 2007 format for documents OOo 3.0 is now compatible with Mac OS X New multi-page mode in Writer Several users…

  • Lion portraits

    Lion portraits

    I published a few shots of lions. Portraits taken in the Masai Mara park (Kenya). My prefered is the following one: If you click on the thumbnail image, you will enlarge it. And you may notice that the photographer (and its car) are appearing in the eye of the lion. 😉 But there are several…

  • The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala

    The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala

    Awesomely superb, “The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala” is an illustrated book (download in PDF) by James Bateman that you can find in Botanicus.org wbe site of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

  • Back from Masai Mara

    After about 10 days out of France, I am back from the Masai Mara National Reserve (in Kenya). I brought back about 30 GB of wildlife photos (around 1700-1800 images) to be sorted out in the coming days. You can expect series of published images here on a regular basis.

  • Goblin shark in action

    This little shark (goblin shark in English, Mitsukurina owstoni) lives in the deeps of the ocean, and has an extensible mouth. See it in action against a human diver (don’t worry, there is no blood and wounds). Link to LiveLink

  • Chrome is not a browser

    How could we ignore the launch of Chrome, the new browser from Google? Every is babbling about it, everybody tried it (it can be downloaded here). But after one test run, I believe that I should explain something. Yes, this is a marvellous browser because it takes most of the good things from FireFox, Opera…

  • Free download of Photoshop

    Free download of Photoshop

    This is right that many people feel obliged to use Photoshop to manage their photo images. But in most cases, nearly any other tool would be as good. I think first about the excellent IrfanView which is free and does a lot of digital photo management. But it is also true that if you really…

  • Landscape photograph lesson in Zion National Park

    Autumn in the Utah, Zion National Park: A great location for photo and landscape photo lessons from Brett Higgins. Video link

  • Free Office Templates

    A few templates for documents you would want to use with OpenOffice 3.0 or MS-Office. Microsoft Office 2007 Templates Free legal download.