Category: Web sightings

  • Publish your own book

    Print on Demand (POD) has become a very affordable solution for people willing to publish their own books. Previously, you had to convince a publisher to invest in printing hundreds if not thousands of copies of your book; then, you hoped for success and -usually- failed. Print your own book at: CafePress Lulu With Print…

  • Experiment: Mobile Roumazeilles.net

    I just installed a WordPress plugin to make Roumazeilles.net usable from a mobile phone (WordPress Mobile). If you want to test and tell me about problem, you’ll be thanked.

  • Ten questions with Dr. Philip Zimbardo

    Dr. Philip Zimbardo was the psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), where in 1971 in a fake environment students experiemented with the influence of the environment on the apparition of behaviours that are considered as highly anti-social (quite normal graduate students played the roles of guards and prisoner, and quickly -in 6 days- derailed…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Generators for fully personnalized seals, signs and badges

    Generators for fully personnalized seals, signs and badges

    Ultra-specialized, the web sites below will allow you to build or create easily enormously personnalized images: Clapper board: As if you were clapping for your own motion picture Cigarette pack Warning label 100% tailor-made Official-looking seals

  • Canon “EF Lens Work III”

    Canon recently published a set of PDF documents collectively titled “EF Lens Work III” that give you all the details about the EF lens system and their application to the digital photographer. It is a very necessary reading for the Canon user, but also a very good information for the others.

  • Railroad Tycoon – a simulation game for free!

    If you are interested in the simulation games like Civilization, you may be interested to know that 2K Games is hiding a free download link for the (slightly older) Railroad Tycoon, on the home page of Railroads! web site. Download Railroad Tycoon. Have fun, be free.

  • All about Nikon VR

    In our series of reference technical papers, we invite you to go and check “What’s behind vibration reduction“, a very interesting description of the technology Nikon uses to reduce image blur caused by vibrations of the photo camera (or of the photographer). It is quite nicely done (cool desing from Nikon) and deeply documented. Just…