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Category: Web sightings

  • Baidu, the Chinese self-censored encyclopaedia

    Baidu. This is the name of a company, of the largest Chinese search engine and of an open encyclopaedia just starting now in China. While Wikipedia is actively censored in China, Baidu wants to offer an answer to the need for an open encyclopaedia written by its visitors. Wikipedia let everybody directly modify the articles…

  • How to Create RSS feeds with Dreamweaver

    Maybe like me some time ago you think about taking advantage of some of the blog techiques without using the actual blog tools (I finally jumped into WordPress to ease my life as you can see). In this case, you will certainly be interested in producing RSS feeds (if you don’t know what i’m speaking…

  • Digital Artifacts – removing digital noise the easy way

    The Luminous Landscape is a great web site with a lot of information on digital photography, excellent photos and nice reviews of related hardware and software. I singled out a nice little article about what they call “the colour gremlins” (More commonly, this is known as digital sensor noise). What is interesting is that they…

  • Writing Adobe PDF documents

    Even if I am still a continuous partisan of writing PDF files directly from OpenOffice (my prefered free replacement for Microsoft Office), I found a web page with information about how to produce directly PDF files from applications which do not know how to make them (contrary to the native feature of OpenOffice). Loose wire.

  • Books that will induce a mindfuck

    Books that will induce a mindfuck is a post on Everything2.com, and it gives a list of pretty interesting English books.

  • AdSense, delay to sense

    Your blog contains AdSense ad banners and you are wondering whether they are always taking into account the real content of the articles you publish. A few remarks from a mere user.

  • Need more traffic, do not pay for site submission

    There is a deafening advertisment flood to increase your web site traffic. This looks like snake oil to me: Need more traffic, xxx$ for site submission.

  • Nikon D200

    Nikon D200

    The Nikon D200 seems to be the real high-end prosumer digital camera from Nikon. Different reviews for this fabulous Nikon camera: DPReview Imaging Resources Digital Outback Photo Definitely a nice body for an enthusiast. Maybe a bit on the heavy side (830g instead of the already heavy 760g of my own Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D), it…

  • Minolta prices going down – Time to buy?

    Minolta prices going down – Time to buy?

    After the announcement of the demise of Konica-Minolta, and its replacement with Sony (actually in place now that April came), I asked myself what is now the consequence of this on camera prices.