I was currently working on an MFC dll and wanted to add some customization function to the model, which prompts a setting dialog. Unfortunately, the code failed to show the dialog…
Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology Just developed new disc technology, so called ‘five dimensional’ nanotechnology, bringing the storage capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs…
A new report from Pablo de Olavide University and University of Seville, published in the magazine Technological Forecasting & Social Change, stating that the use of free software in South America and Asia will be around 70% in 2010, with a special relevance in the education sector. This number will be leading all around the world…
The Incognito mode of Google Chrome provides an excellent way to protect privacy (though not perfect yet) when browsing. However, starting the Incognito mode is a little tedious. Now it is easier to use a command line parameter to do this.
Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language. Kathryn Edwards from Computerworld recently had an interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout, about the most fascinate stuffs about Tcl, including the extensibility of Tcl, its diverse eco-system and use in NASA’s Mars Lander project.
Researchers from Penn State university have released ACQUINE (Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine), an online photo-rating search engine. According to the developers of the system, ACQUINE is the first publicly available tool for automatically determining the aesthetic value of an image…
Some students at Northeastern University Engineering just built a new 3D PC interface, which enables the user to control computers only by hand gestures…
If the backslash (”\”) is typed into WordPress, is will be automatically removed after publishing or saving. Even double backslashes (”\\”) like in C++ do not work!
When a solution or project in Visual Studio is bound to the Visual SoucrSafe version control, sometimes we want to break the VSS dependency from the solution, especially when the solution is copied or moved. There are two methods to do this…
Stephen Wolfram recently releases Wolfram Alpha, a free new question answering system.
Different from the traditional search engines which show the users the original web pages containing relevant information, the new system aims to answer questions directly by aggregating raw information gathered…
Based on the Quantum mechanics, Quantum cryptography brings a fundamental revolution to online security. Quantum cryptography is a completely secure means of communication, and is now very close to being used practically thanks to researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory…
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