Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, has once again managed to rank no. 1 as the richest American in Forbes list. Although his fortune swelled by $5 billion in last one year to $59 billion, he doesn’t have much competition for the top place. Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathway has also retained the second place (net worth $39 billion), though his fortune decreased by $6 [...] ...
More than 100 studies have now found that the most engaged employees — those who report they’re fully invested in their jobs and committed to their employers — are significantly more productive, drive higher customer satisfaction and outperform those who are less engaged. But only 20 percent of employees around the world report that they’re fully [...] ...
Fast cars and bikes, hot ladies, and loud music – sounds like heaven for anyone who is an ardent follower of street racing. For many years, street racing has been a topic that has been frowned upon. Times have changed and the Carlton Sports Network is about to change things on 16 and 17 December [...]
I recently got an Android mobile development project and was really interested in writing the application. After downloading the Android SDK as well as the 32-bit Java SDK I got it all installed and running the sample apps with Eclipse and browsed around the code. Firstly, I wasn’t really too keen on getting into another development environment. Secondly, I really didn’t want to do [...] ...
Microsoft has officially released the developer preview version of Windows 8 during the BUILD developer conference. The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers, and thus is not suitable for those looking for stable or intending to run on production system, as the downloads include prerelease software that may change [...] ...
Let’s say someone has posted a picture from Facebook on another site such as sample.com using the Facebook URL (hotlinking.) Here is how you find the profile where that picture came from: 1. Find the URL of the image. If you don’t know how, right click on the image -> View Image 2. Open a new [...]
It is hard to see computer’s world without you and your ingenious ideas. You inspired and changed so many people’s lives. We will always think of you every day because one part of you is in our Mac, iPod/iPhone and iPad. We will never forget you… Sad day for everyone RIP Steve Jobs Share your [...]
I have a website on my server. All permissions are set correctly and the image DOES exist. Howeverwhen the page loads the image for the item selected does not show. Here is my code imagepath = "~/spaimages/" + currentSpaModel.Name.ToString() + ".png"; if (File.Exists(Server.MapPath(imagepath))) { this.spaimage.ImageUrl = Server.MapPath(imagepath); [...]
To celebrate the launch on the new Nokia WP7 the finish phone giant brought the Canadian techno music producer Deadmau5 (pronounced “dead mouse”), to the bank of the River Thames in London’s West End where they converted the 120-metre Millbank Tower into a huge 4d Music extravaganza. You can see some of the action in [...]
Jean-Phillippe Courtois, the President of Microsoft International, has written a guest post about Cloud security on the Viewpoints blog. You should read it if you’re at all interested in the framework for security and compliance of Cloud services – it delves into the Microsoft Cloud offerings, and the security framework we have had to build [...] ...
There are many users reporting that Google Chrome doesn’t work with Microsoft latest operating system Windows 7 64 bit version. Here is solution to make Google Chrome Work on Windows 7 64 bit. Run Google Chrome on Windows 7 64 bit Version 1. Right Click on Google Chrome Icon 2. Add -in-process-plugins after chrome.exe in Target field. It should look like this, 3. [...]
The future of technology in education means many things to many different people. eBooks, natural user interfaces, touch screens, gaming in education and the consumerisation of IT are all themes that are voiced when the topic comes up for debate. A hot topic, for sure!
A code sample is worth a thousand words. Here are a few projects to take a look at that go beyond just code snippets to show you how to put key technologies together in the form ofsample applications. (Note, if you are looking for just code snippets and focused codesamples, you can check out the Microsoft [...] ...
Microsoft’s SQL Server team yesterday(28 Nov 2011) announced the availability of a preview release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux, which allows native developers to access Microsoft SQL Server from Linux operating systems. For customers with native applications on multi-platform, the existing, reliable and enterprise-class ODBC for Windows driver (a.k.a. SQL Server Native [...]
This is the most fundamental modules in many devices you already use today: the button. It’s universally understood by users and easy to program. There are currently two button modules available for Gadgeteer, one from GHI Electronics and one from Sytech. Each offers a little something extra: an LED you can use as a status indicator or to [...]