Category: Social issues
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Free video players for the PC
When you want to play video on your PC you often end up being chased by error messages about missing codecs or similar tough configuration issues. Initially, we saw some people bundling as many Codecs as possible in freely downloadable packs that where then distributed to the Internet. However, most of them where essentially a…
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Western Digital: audio/video police included
What could be the use of network hard disk drive of one Tera-Byte which would strictly refuse to serve files because there may be a risk of breaching licensing agreement potentially applicable to them? This is the question that potential buyers should ask before purchasing the Western Digital disc drives using WD Anywhere Access: WD…
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Latest whale news: talk and faeces
Did you know that whales not only sing but their songs are being decoded into talk? University of Queensland researcher Dr Rebecca Dunlop thinks she now understands a lot of what they are talking about through their thumps, whistles and clacks. Also about whales, Stacy DeRuiter at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts started…
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Free FPS game to play: Daikatana
Daikatana was a good FPS game for the PC a few years ago, in 2000. The story is of one sword fighter in post-modern tehcnological Japan and gives a little twist to the FPS genre (and some of the adversaries were the strange robotic frogs). Today it is made available for free download from GameTap…
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No more music DRM
After EMI which decided to start pushing its music catalog in DRM-free MP3 format, others seem to be ready to go the way consumers wanted to. It is said that Warner and Sony are prepared to step back in front of the strong reaction coming from both the consumers and the distribution channel (most recently,…
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Sony Alpha 700 user manual
While I seemed unable to find the user manual of the Sony Alpha 700 D-SLR camera, there was the the Alpha 700 promotional brochure visible on the web. But if you really want it all (including the Sony Alpha 700 user manual), you should check the Sony documentation server.
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Missing codec? CodecInstaller
If you are downloading a large number of movie files form the Internet, you know that dreaded moment when your media player announces that it does not know what codec to use to read the file. You’ll get either no sound or no image or both. Here comes CodecInstaller.
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All images from the Moon
NASA finally decided to publish high-resolution scans of all the photos taken by the Lunar Apollo expeditions in the 60’s and 70’s. A huge publication work but that is welcome remembering the enormous successes and horrendous claims that accompany them.
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Thanatorama – Internet documentary about your death
You’re dead and you want to know what is happenning. Thanatorama will give you a fairly detailled explanation.