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Samsung projects ad on a building

David — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:11:30 +0000

In the Netherlands, the other country of the footballers-actors, Samsung projected a very realistic film on a historical building in Amsterdam. We got the impression that the building fissures, butterflies go out, then it fills with water... Great sensation!

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LCD, LED or plasma television, 3 questions to decide

David — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:12:45 +0000

A question with a very simple answer depending on your uses. A small questionnaire is enough to determine the model of televisions appropriate to you.

Of course, the salesmen often forget to explain the differences between these technologies! More, they generally do not know them, because you know that now the salesmen are recruited for their commercial qualities and not for their competences in the products they sell.

Moreover, they have commissions, more or less important according to the marks, the products and will not guide you to the best product but of course to the one which offers the higher commission!

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Microsoft and Apple against Flash

David — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:13:56 +0000

Flash technology, from the US software company Adobe, is widespread on the Internet. A situation that doesn't make comfortable the giants Apple and Microsoft.

Apple has fired first, simply by prohibiting the installation of Flash on its telephones and other mobiles (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). Last week Steve Jobs, Apple's director, has published an open letter called «Thoughts on Flash».

He criticizes the Adobe technology in a very strange way in 6 points.

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Majors overestimate the cost of piracy

David — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:48:15 +0000

Everyone knows that already, music and cinematographic industries over-estimate the shortfall caused by the illegal downloading.

It is of course obvious that a pirate having 3000 MP3 or 500 DivX/Xvid would not have bought them.

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Complete assembled computer

David — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:01:33 +0000

We here at the end of hardware choices of all needed parts for our PC:

case $50,
PSU $45,
motherboard $90,
CPU $50,
RAM $60,
2 hard drives at $35 = $70

so a total of $365 for case without peripheral device.

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Choose a motherboard for our computer

David — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:34:32 +0000

The motherboard is the heart of a computer. On it we will connect all the other components: processor, memory, power supply, hard drive... Everything is connected to the motherboard.

So its choice is crucial for your computer.

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Choose a CPU

David — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:48:02 +0000

This article is a continuation of the series to choose your hardware easily. For more information, there are many good comparative. My goal is to make the most neophytes realize that select all its components is very interesting.

For the processor, the first thing is to define the use of the computer, it will determine whether to emphasize the frequency or the number of cores.

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For the hard drive, it's Western Digital

David — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:35:44 +0000

Actually choosing a hard drive is an easy part, since almost everyone plebiscite the SATA hard drives from Western Digital, in particular Caviar Blue.

If for the old interface (IDE) Seagate drives were quieter, they are not so good in SATA. Hitachi, IBM and especially Samsung are good alternatives.

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Choose your power supply unit

David — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:33:24 +0000

Power supply unit (PSU) is often overlooked in the selection of components of a computer. Nevertheless it's an important part, even essential: without a good stability of the current supplied, you could have the better processor in the world, your computer will crash constantly.

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Choice of a PC case

David — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:57:47 +0000

The case is the only visible element of a computer from the outside. So you need to choose it at your taste!

You must also take care of its characteristics, but nowadays, all manufacturers create good cases, more practical and evacuating a maximum heat. You have still some choices to make.

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Buying a computer or building one?

David — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:55:45 +0000

As in all domains, in computer science there is a huge gap between the "newbies" who buy a computer in supermarkets, and the experts who will choose each component one by one.

However, many shops and Web merchants offer to assemble your machine for $30 to $60. It allows you to build your custom PC. But build it yourself is even not so difficult as you may think. Each piece fits generally only in the correct location.

Finally, your machine can be much more efficient and powerful for the same price as the mounted computers.

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DVD legal vs illegal

David — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:04:42 +0000

Sometimes an image is more than one thousand words... This schema shows how you read a DVD when you illegally download it, and when you stupidly pay to see ads!

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Computers in 2010

David — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:11:42 +0000

Here we are on 1 January 2010, this site now exists for 2 years. Since we have seen the appearance of processors with multiple cores, phones with more and more features...

On the Web, the fashion in sites design was sober and clean, today they become again heavier and flashing. Social networks have lost some appeal and the public returned to the classic information sites.

Google has expanded its system of spying on all Internet sites using its advertising.

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Apple cancel warranty for smokers

David — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:25:19 +0000

Apple refuses to repair several computers, still under warranty, for the reason their owner was a smoker.

The Apple company has explained that these computers were "contaminated" by cigarette smoke and could not be repaired for "health reasons" because of risks of passive smoking on health technicians!

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The new Nokia Internet Tablet

David — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:49:20 +0000

Following the N770, N800 and N810, Nokia improves its Web tablet principally through integrating the functions of a cell phone.

The Nokia N900 will appear around Christmas and bad news, its price will be triple that of its predecessors: near 650€!

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Two new Sony Ericsson cell phones

Jessica — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:06:21 +0000

The 18th November, Sony Ericsson invades several websites and the Yahoo homepage with some jumping balloons, the hoppers.

This was to introduce two new cell phones: Aino and Satio.

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The Pirate Bay shuts down its trackers

David — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:19:13 +0000

The site The Pirate Bay, referencing files for sharing on BitTorrent, had been attacked in Italy and the Netherlands, and heavily sentenced in Sweden. The film and music industries had obtained sentences of one year of jail and € 2.7 million compensation.

In order to save some money, The Pirate Bay announced today the end of its BitTorrent trackers. (A tracker is a server to organize the transfer of files between peers.)

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Hadopi, French way to lose 150 millions €

David — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:52:29 +0000

Thursday, the famous French law Hadopi (version 2.1) is published to the official journal, but some questions still remain unanswered.

The goal is that the first notification e-mails are sent in early 2010. Yet we must clarify some points among all the texts. For example, in Article 6 of the law, the second paragraph was censured by the Constitutional Council. It said that the record companies can bring civil actions to obtain financial compensation.

As these record companies are behind this ridiculous law, no doubt they will also pressure to correct this.

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Another bunch of statistics in video

David — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:30:56 +0000

Another video like the Did you know about technology, this time about everything but still a lot of hi-tech, as Internet and cell-phones communications are really the big evolution of the 20th century. But take care: this video is not 100% true!

Did you know 95% of china's adult population have university degress?

Did you know more jobs have already been lost in 2009 than existed in the great depression?

Did you know at his very moment, the American military has 3 nuclear bombs orbiting the earth?

If not, you should watch this video!

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A lot of numbers in technology

David — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:27:45 +0000

Did you know more video was uploaded to Youtube in the last two months than if ABC, NBC and CBS had been airing new content since 1948!?

Did you know 90% of the 200 billion e-mails sent every day are spam?

Did you know Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every seconds?

Watch that video!

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