The newest line launched by Dell, having as target the MacBook fans, seems to meet the expectations. Slim, slick, powerful, with quite big battery autonomy, seems the perfect response to the Mac version.
Category: My work
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While working on my new pet project, I encountered a situation in which I wanted to save some data to a file. From the Vista Sidebar Gadget point of view, you can do it pretty easy using Scripting.FileSystemObject. As in any Microsoft product, you should ask about necessary credentials. So find out that inside the gadget’s directory, you are free to create, delete, update files with no more rights required than the ones that the gadget already owns.
Starting today, I work as a Student Helper in Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. The branch from Sankt Augustin, which I joined, is focused on the research of human-centered computing in a process context. I will activate in the Cooperation and Community Support department, which deals with the research and development of community portals, (mobile) communities and cooperation, Internet-based groupware, cooperative knowledge management, application service providing for cooperative work and virtual teams, rating and recommender systems and cooperative learning environments. The head of the department is Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD and I will work closely with Mr. Nils Jeners, […]
When I use Mozilla Firefox I want to be able to see the content of pages, not to have my screen cluttered with lots and lots of toolbars. But when doing searches with built-in search area in this browser, I lack the highlighting feature of Google Toolbar. Not to mention the word search, handled so easy in it by pressing auto created buttons for each word. So I tried to replicate the Google toolbar in the browser interface, but without adding the entire toolbar. This can be done very easy, by following the next steps: 1. Install Google toolbar if […]
Being not a big fan of Microsoft Live products (I discovered few months ago Live Writer, but doesn’t count) I did not know about this service. I had to hand in back to the company that I worked for the laptop, so I needed intermediate space in order to preserve my written knowledge. Getting started with Windows Live SkyDrive is very straight forward. If you don’t already have a MSN account, get one by signing up for a Windows Live account. Then you’ll be able to get access to the free software that you’ll need to start using SkyDrive. Immediately […]
How to create a GUID (Global Unique IDentifier) in order to mark your dlls. Looking in my Visual Studio 2005 I saw that this command wasn’t available in any tools menu, nor in the Customize toolbars one as a shortcut to a command.
Short presentation of PDC 2008 about Developing application using Data Services, using Cloud and REST Interfaces for data
I would like to present two ways that I know of how you can download and save Windows Updates files for Vista. Maybe this discussion is applicable for all versions of Windows, but I tested only for my Windows Vista Business.
The basic idea is that if I wrote all in English, my older relatives ( whom learned French and Russian when Communism ruled ) wouldn't be able to read it.