December 2011

Nespresso

December 9, 2011

In 1976, Éric Favre, employee of Nestlé, invented, patented and introduced the system to the business market in Switzerland but without the expected success. In 1988, thanks to Jean-Paul Gaillard (a business man and the creator of «Le Club» community), the product became a market success. In 1990, the firm signed a contract with Turmix, [...]

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Pro HDR – Automatic High Dynamic Range photos in the palm of your hands

December 9, 2011

I’ve been doing HDR photography for a long time, as you can easily see by browsing this blog a little. The process I use is simply to grab my Nikon, take five shots with different exposures, and combine them using Photomatix. It’s Great, gives awesome results, but… it takes some skill, patience and time to [...]

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NASA’s Kepler mission confirms the first planet in habitable zone of Sun-like star

December 6, 2011

The Kepler spacecraft was launched on March 7, 2009. Its 3.5 year mission was to discover Earth-like planets and yesterday, December 5th 2011, NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone”, the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. The newly confirmed planet, named “Kepler-22b”, is the smallest [...]

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WordFoto for iPhone

December 4, 2011

WordFoto is one of those little great apps we come across once in a while. It does exactly what it claims, and does it very well and very easily. The interface is intuitive and there nothing is very complicated in this app. I believe this is always a plus because if an app is too [...]

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The Pleiades (M45)

December 4, 2011

The M45 is one of my favorite objects of the deep sky. So I decided to post here a fantastic photo of them, along with some technical aspects and excerpts of a couple Wikipedia articles with great info. In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier object 45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged [...]

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