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How to convert a web page into PDF file? 2008-03-09 00:47:44 There is a free online service available to achieve this purpose: htm2pdf.One important note, your converted files are published at htm2pdf website which are publicly available for anyone. So, in case you want to convert a confidential file, this service is not for you. In addition, sometimes the conversion failed but there is no reason given.
Evolution of Microsoft Word for Windows (1989-2007) 2008-03-08 01:41:12 Prior to 1989, Microsoft
Word was originally a DOS application with complex set of commands. It was later added with more graphical features but only available for Mac OS. The first Word for Windows
appeared in 1989 and was designed for Windows 3.0.When Word version 2.0 was released as part of Microsoft Office 3.0 in 1992. Word became the market leader which was partly due to major competitor, WordPerfect, failed to produce Windows version. You can see that most of the basic features we use today are already in Word 2.0.Office 4.0 was released in 1994. Word was called Word 6.0 at this point despite the fact the previous version number was 2.0. The purpose was to use common version numbering with the Mac OS version. Word 6.0 is the first version of Word that I used, I was still a primary sc Read more:Evolution
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Microsoft Excel as 3D game engine? 2008-03-07 00:04:17 A smart guy is trying to use MicrosoftExcel
as 3D game engine. Smart..very smart indeed...For more information on he did this, please follow this link.Also, someone else has tried to port the Excel example to Open Office version too.
Usability in UI design - What is the best practice? 2008-03-06 22:45:28 Source: stuffthathappens.comThe comparison is unfair since the purpose of the applications is different. Nevertheless, how do we use the 3rd screen? It seems to save a record, we need to click Apply to end edit mode, then click Save to save record then click Okay to dismiss the form?? It is common to see business applications with unnecessary complexity.I guess the common approach is to have a Customer list plus a pop-up edit form after select a record. Recently, I rolled out the new version of my application to clients. The biggest change I made from previous version is allow the users to edit directly on the data grid listing but I keep the pop-up edit forms for 'backward-compatibility'. After visiting several clients across Malaysia, I am surprised to find out that no one uses the pop- Read more:Usability
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Bill Gates is no longer the richest man 2008-03-06 03:03:14 Bill Gates
who has been the richest man in the world for consecutive 13 years is now ranked the third in the world with the estimated worth of $58 billion. This is due to the stock holdings are hit by Yahoo bid on 1st February - Microsoft shares fell by 15% the day the announcement was made.The richest man is now Warren Buffet (American investor) with estimated worth of 62 billion.Buffet has controlling stake in Berkshire Hathaway. He also invested in insurance (GEICO, General Re), jewelry (Borsheim's), utilities (MidAmerican Energy Holdings) and food (Dairy Queen, See's Candies), and non-controlling stakes in Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo. Recently, the company disclosed he owns a significant stake in Kraft Foods.Carlos Slim Helú (Mexican telecom tycoon - America Movil) is th Read more:Bill Gates
Playing retro games without DosBox 2008-03-03 23:35:03 DosBox is great but it can fail miserably in Windows Vista which require PC reboot. Sometimes, adjusting the configurations or patching the games are frustrating process too. That is why I never play any retro
games since I switched to Vista - until I found this website - Nintendo8.com.This website allows you to play Nintendo 8 bits games online, without download anything. In other words, I am free from the problems I just mentioned above. Best of all, the games are available for free.The bad thing is, only Nintendo games are listed. You cannot play old days PC games like Xenon 2, Nightmare on Elm St, etc. Having said that, many DOS games have Nintendo version too. So you still can play Prince of Persia, Double Dragon and many others.
Nokia Concept Phone: Morph 2008-02-27 23:46:16 Morph is Nokia
's current research on nano-technologies.Several characteristics of this concept phone:-The surface is dirt repellent - good for careless usersAble to recharge from solar energy - if it runs out off power middle of the day, just expose it to sunlightDetachable and stretchable - expand it to reveal mini-keyboard, fold it back into normal phone, wear it as a watch.....Buttons on the keypad are transparent in colour - you can see through itSensing - I can't see the usefulness of this feature, does the phone change colour according to surrounding or what? Context dependent 3D keypad buttons - the physical buttons are embossed on the surface - not 3D graphics showing on the screen. The most interesting is the buttons change according to context - e.g. button is flatten to disable Read more:Concept
Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage 2008-02-27 06:03:38 Last Friday, the Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ordered ISPs to block access to YouTube
.com because of anti-Islamic movies. A PTA official said the ban concerned a Dutch movie trailer portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.The block was intended with Pakistan only.Pakistan Telecom directed requests for YouTube videos from local Internet subscribers to a "black hole," where the data was discarded. Pakistan Telecom's mistake was that it then published that black hole route to its international data carrier, PCCW Ltd. (Hong Kong).PCCW accepted that route and started directing requests from its customers for YouTube data to Pakistan. And since PCCW is one of the world's 20 largest data carriers, its routing table was passed along to Read more:causes
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Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight: A developer's perspective 2008-02-27 02:29:38 Adobe AIR is competing with Microsoft
Silverlight in RIA domain. Adobe AIR is released a few days ago, so it is one step ahead than Silverlight 2.0. Basically, from developer perspective, both technologies offer different paradigms. AIR is helping web developers to make desktop applications using ActionScript etc. While Silverlight is better for desktop app developers to move towards RIAs using XAML + code behind approach - the .Net 3.0 way. Web designers and developers will probably prefer AIR because of familiar development environment. In addition, Adobe AIR SDK is available for Windows and Mac platforms. Silverlight has poor support for development on Mac - I am not aware of any decent Silverlight IDE tool is available for Mac OS yet. Putting aside the lack of OS support issue, I Read more:Adobe
Popular Social Networking Websites Around The World 2008-02-26 03:37:53 So.....only Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Filipino are using Friendster??Anyone who can read French, can you please enlighten me what is the meaning of those numbers for the bar graphs? I suppose those are million hits per month??Source: Le Monde.fr
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Obsolete skills - you don't need these skills to survive nowadays 2008-02-24 21:32:27 Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TVBlowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridgeBooting off a floppy diskChanging the ribbon on a typewriterEditing dates and time source code for Y2KDarkroom photography skillsFaxing a documentGetting to know your neighbors?Having your gas pumped for you and your oil checked at a full-service gas stationInserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it workLoading data from a cassette tapeModem to Modem Computer GamingNetwareOperating an agitator washing machine and clothes ringerPropping an airplane to start the enginePutting a needle on a vinyl record Remembering telephone numbersSwitching from TV mode to Game mode on the box behind the tv?TypesettingVCR ProgrammingWalking long distancesWriting email whilst offline and going online to sendUsin Read more:survive
Cloudo: Technology that will change your digital life 2008-02-24 03:22:31 Cloudo is taking a step further than gOS by putting an entire operating system in your web browser!! In other words, Cloudo is an Internet Operating System - bringing the whole desktop experience to web browser.Imagine that you have signed up on Cloudo, all your applications or files are actually hosted on the web. Hence, you can access your data from anywhere as long as you are connected, eliminate the need to bring your laptop along. You can access you same files using your home PC, from your school / office PC, and your mobile phone too! Maybe even Xbox 360. So, no more copying files using USB drives (more importantly, no more 'Oops..I forgot to copy the files'), no more complains on this PC does not have the program I need or I can't open the file in this PC etc....In addition, you ca Read more:Technology
YouTube Desktop - not really a desktop application 2008-02-23 22:43:23 I was googling for YouTube
desktop application - an application that allow me to search, view and download YouTube videos. Unfortunately, I didn't find such integrated applications. However, I came across this one - iDesktop.iDesktop is actually not a desktop application but trying to bring desktop experience to a web application. Technically speaking, this is one of the best AJAX web applications I have seen so far. You can drag and drop, minimize, and resize the videos (yeah, somthing YouTube.com does not have). The most important feature is the ability to build a playlist. You can drag videos from search results to a player to build a playlist - easy but powerful.Another key feature is ability to download the video. Unlike many softwares which simply download the FLVs (Flash videos), Yo
Kagaya Wallpapers for Download 2008-02-23 07:53:22 Kagaya Yutaka is a Japanese digital artist who is well known for his elaborately detailed painting style. His favourite painting subject is astronomy. A man with dreams, he wishes to live at the moon after retired!!Most people who seen Kagaya paintings are eager to place them as desktop wallpapers. I believe many of you have at least seen his constellation series. I put his artworks as my desktop wallpapers even as early as 10 years ago!!! Below are just a few samples...If you like Kagaya's artworks, you can find the full collection of Kagaya wallpapers here (Old works only, new works are not made into wallpapers). You can find the latest artworks from Kagaya Studio, the official website.
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Googles releases Google Moon and Google Mars 2008-02-23 00:07:33 Combining science and art, Google
takes large volume of imagery celestial bodies and apply them to Google Maps technology. The result of this hard work is Google Moon
and Google Mars. To enhance its educational values, Google adds a lots of side-notes on the landing sites of Apollo missions on Google Moon.More information: Google Moon, Google Mars
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The shiniest computer in the world 2008-02-22 01:04:42 Japanese computer manufacturer, Zeus, introduced a new range of PCs. On the physical appearance, the CPU box is wrapped in platinum or gold colour. The casing is encrusted with diamonds which are arranged to resemble constellations. Inside, it is equipped with 3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 256MB GeForce 8400S graphics card, 1 terabyte SATA drive, 2GB RAM, and Blu-ray / HD-DVD optical drives. It comes with Vista Ultimate, too. The platinum-casing choice (called Jupiter) is sold at 80 million yen. The gold casing (Mars) is slightly cheaper and is available at 60 million yen. I am curious how many units are sold to date.Source: Zeus Computer (Japanese language)
Excellent Blog Design 2008-02-21 06:58:29 I like these two design: both contain aesthetic page layouts. With reasonable amount of spacing, the content is easy-to-read, and the search box is located at obvious place too.I saw this kind of map+photo blog before, it is really innovative. This example is integrated with Google Maps...Source: Smashing Magazine (Feb 2008, Nov 2007, Aug 2007)
Samurize: Desktop enhancement software 2008-02-16 02:26:41 Excerpt from Samurize website:Samurize is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement
engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of all, Samurize is 100% free!Still very vague of what is meant by desktop enhancement? When you browse its screenshot gallery, you will be fully amazed....Nice system monitoring gadgets....Windows OS turns into Mac OS....Absolutely no hint it is Windows...
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Windows Sidebar Styler: Customize your Windows Sidebar 2008-02-15 02:31:00 Windows Sidebar
Styler provides extensions to the existing functionality of Windows Sidebar. It allows you to customize the appearance of the sidebar and even resizing it. For software developers, we can now create WPF gadgets for the sidebar. In addition, Windows Sidebar Styler is available in a number of languages. Various styles by other designers are available at the gallery here.
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Remote assistance program that works 2008-02-15 01:28:45 Although I never use it, I heard that Crossloop works very well, and able to connect no matter what kind of firewalls and proxies are between two computers. Another popular choice is UltraVNC. However I don't know the difference between RealVNC and UltraVNC, only heard that UltrVNC is better than RealVNC.
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Introducing video ads to Google search results 2008-02-15 01:09:21 Google used to differentiate itself from competitors by having no banner ads or other intrusions on Google.com, but this is going to change. According to the news here, Google is going to test video
ads on search results
. Google is considering other formats including image ads. So, this is going to be cultural shift for Google.
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Roadkill Burger 2008-02-15 00:29:55 In the design competition titled 'Dining in 2015', an Iranian team has made a crazy invention which allows you to grill burgers using the car exhaust pipe - mobile barbecue concept. It may be save you some energy and some time, but not sure how much it cost on your healthiness. For more information, click here.
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The best Firefox add-ons (Part 1) 2008-03-12 09:22:14 1) Firefox
ThemeWhen we talk about add-ons in Firefox, the first thing that comes to mind is Firefox themes!!a) PimpZilla - The best theme I have seen so farb) NASA Night Launch - One of the best dark colour themec) Blue Ice - Simple design. Suitable for minimalistd) Macfox II graphite - My favourite Mac themee) Vista Firefox beta - Vista theme for Firefox. Isn't it look better than IE7?2) Tab browsing add-onsa) Tab Scope - At first look, it is similar to thumbnail preview on Windows Vista taskbar. If you pay close attention, it is actually a thumbnail viewer AND ALSO a mini browser (See the navigation bar embeded in the thumbnail viewer?)b) Tab Effect - This add-on is not very useful but cool. It adds 3D effect when you switch tabs. Sometimes the 3D effect does not work. In this case,
Doraemon bowling game 2008-03-10 08:43:01 It is fun to see characters in the manga become the pins of the bowling game. It is very easy to play...Move your mouse left or right to determine the location of the bowling ball then click onceClick again to determine which angle the ball will roll outFinally, click again to decide the speed of the ball....Enjoy playing...
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Best resources for Web developers and designers 2008-03-09 01:46:34 Data Management50 Content Management Systems - some are free...Design > Guidelines20+ Free Web Design Ebooks And GuidesDesign > Icons35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon SetsBest Small Web Design Icon Download SitesPI Diagona Pack Design > Photoshop45 Photoshop Tutorials for Better Navigation - I finally know how to make a nice looking button...Photoshop actions: 124+ Free Photoshop Actions to Boost Your Designs - some are really cool..100 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Beautiful ArtJavascriptFancyZoom 1.1 Smooth Javascript Image Zooming For Your Web Pages - something different from the widely used LightboxiCarousel - creating image / text carousel like widgetsSecurityHow Hackers Hack Your Website - informative...TestingBrowsershots - Free online service to test your web design in different
Physics Puzzle Game: Crayon Physics Deluxe 2008-03-15 01:45:05 Crayon PhysicsDeluxe
is the winner of MIX'08 Show Off contest. Out of the 16 contest entries I have seen, Crayon Physics is the coolest!!It is a physics puzzle game and is made using Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express. In the game anything you draw comes to live and behaves physically correctly. I want the game now!!!This is the last level of the game.You can go to Kloonigames blog to check out the latest news on Crayon Physics Deluxe.
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The future of personal health concept 2008-03-15 01:18:58 Here is a video clip ripped from the MIX'08 webcast (hence the video quality is not very good) showing the Microsoft's vision of personal health system. The whole idea is to attach systems and internet connectivity to any devices and any surfaces, including table surface. It is obvious this kind of 'seen only in movie' technology won't be realized in anytime soon. Also, I like the digital wallet concept as I hate to bring keep too many cards in my wallet.
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