Browsing the blog archives for July, 2009

Interactive Learning – Q2 Remote

This morning each of the students in the class was given a device that looks like a remote control. It is a learning tool that is designed to facilitate an interactive environment within the classroom in order to promote healthy learning. This statement was based on last year students’ feedback, in which it was reported [...]

Catchy phrases for your phone number

What are catchy phrases? Catchy phrases are a set of words in which the alphabets correspond to the digits printed on a phone pad. For instance, the letters “A”, “B”, and “C” are linked to the digit “2″, while the letters “P”, “Q”, “R”, and “S” are related to the digit “7″.

Finding out who has been disclosing your Gmail e-mail address

Have you ever wondered how do spammers garner your e-mail address(es)? Well, give the following paragraph a read and you may be able to figure out who has been selling you out.

Home Theatre System Using Laptops

On the 20th of June 2007, PC World magazine (US) has compiled an article that showcases the innovations and inventions that are currently going on in five prominent computer labs in the world. Among them were IMAX at Home by HP, The Midair Mouse by Microsoft Research, The Perfect Machine by Bell Labs, Extreme Peer-to-Peer [...]

Running older programs on Windows Vista

With the arrival of Windows Vista, many programs that were built for predecessor Windows have failed to work on Microsoft’s latest Operating System. The following describes the ways to make revive these programs on the shiny Windows.

Image Preloading – the sure-work, scriptless way

Image-preloading is a supplementary function for ensuring smooth image changeover upon mouse hovering. This technique is widely incorporated in the creation of scrolling-effects – frequently seen in navigation bar, or in cases where an image is substituted with a sequence of thumbnails as part of a slideshow.

Wireless Ad Hoc Networking

A continuity from Cheap “Poor-man’s” Networking, if both computers have wireless capabilities, then a connection can be setup to connect them through the air. The
downside to this method is that wireless security such as WAP2, WAP, or WEP cannot be enabled as they are not supported under computer-to-computer direct networking. This type of wireless networking [...]

Cheap “Poor-man’s” Networking (Crossover Networking)

Crossover networking is a form of network that bridges two computers without the use of an accessory component such as a router. This allows peripheral hardware or files and folder associated with a particular computer to be shared with another computer. Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) can also be enabled so that both computers can access [...]