Month: September 2009

Picasa 3.5 quick review (super quick)

In 2 words it has now the “face recognition” so I played with it and it’s fun. The only bad things i can say it’s that is kind of slow with RAW files. Unfortunately this is how i take 99% of my pictures. But yeh! it work fine, you have to expect any application to…

SGI is back

How you you like that? A pc with 80 cores and 1 TB of ram! wow! SGI Unveils Octane™ III Personal Supercomputer SGI today announced the immediate availability of Octane™ III, the company’s first personal supercomputer. This new product takes high-performance computing to a new level by combining the immense power and performance capabilities of…

A new Wii

Does it really need an update? It’s not the power that made it different but the gameplay no? Next Generation Wii Coming With HD Graphics and New Controller in 2011 [Nintendo] Leave it to Yoichi Wada—president of final fantasizer Square Enix, the biggest Japanese game house—to break the news about the next generation Nintendo Wii.…

Nostalgia 09-09-09

09-09-09 was famous for another thing 10 years ago!! And it wasn’t about the Beatles (now that i think of it, I don’t remember anything special about the Beatles back then) Today 10 years ago was the release of the Sega Dreamcast. It was released on the market almost a year before the PlayStation 2.…

Are Sunspots Disappearing?

This is a very interesting article on the sunspot decline that our sun is experiencing. Be reassured that it’s not the first time it happen and it won’t probably be the last. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/03sep_sunspots.htm?list934087

astronomers

And one day it’s going to be us! Andromeda galaxy devouring its neighbours: astronomers The Andromeda galaxy, the closest neighbour to our own Milky Way, has been growing by scooping up stars from smaller surrounding galaxies, a Canadian-led team of astronomers has found.