Friday's Fave Five #24

Welcome, welcome. It's Friday's Fave Five. I'm looking forward to reading your five favorite things from your week. If you need more details, it's her ...

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Spring Festival Update

Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is almost upon us and so many of us will be taking advantage of this not quite 1 week holiday (not if you includ ...

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Search Engine Marketing (SEM, PPC) Budgets in Asia

“It is estimated that in Asia alone, more than 450 million internet users conduct 20 billion searches a month.” (Source: digital media). W ...

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China SEO: Quality of Baidu Search Results

I have always written about the fact that Baidu has a different user group than Google, e.g. in this article: compare Baidu and Google. This is true f ...

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Bentley University Presents User Experience Boot Camp for Information Design Professionals

WALTHAM, Mass. - The Design and Usability Center (DUC) at Bentley University will host a User Experience Boot Camp for software and hardware engineers ...

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If I've Told Him Once, I've Told Him Two-enteen Times

For those of you whose last encounter with kindergarten was when you went there yourself, I have some news for you. Kindergartners have homework ever ...

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Test your hearing with Audiometry for the iPhone

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone, App StoreI was just listening to the great Sound Opinions music ...

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Appigo Sync brings iCal todo syncing with iPhone app

Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App StoreI've always thought that the lack of iCal todo syncing was one of the strangest omissions on the iPhone and ...

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Iran to open Bushehr nuclear plant for tourists

TEHRAN (FNA) - Iran has decided to open its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr for Tourist in an effort to highlight Tehran’s peaceful nuclear drive ...

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Estimating “Reuse / Remix” Value of 7 OER Projects

This week I ventured to explore a number of OER projects and conduct a preliminary assessment of the reusability and remixability of the OER hosted in ...

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Scanning electron microscopy applied to seed-borne fungi examination

The aim of this study was to test the standard scanning electron microscopy (SEM) as a potential alternative to study seed-borne fungi in seeds, by tw ...

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Recognition, presence, and survival of locust central nervous glia in situ and in vitro

Insect glial cells serve functions for the formation, maintenance, and performance of the central nervous system in ways similar to their vertebrate c ...

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Safari 4: Was kann die Beta und wo hakt es noch?

Nach der doch sehr überraschenden Veröffentlichung von Safari 4 Beta vor ein paar Tagen haben wir uns einmal in der Blogosphäre umgehört was der Apple ...

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IBM adds virtual worlds support to Lotus Sametime

SECOND LIFE, Sept 3 (Reuters) - IBM, a company long at the forefront of exploring the business applications of virtual worlds, announced on Wednesday ...

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Simple Expense Tracking With New Excel 2007 Functions

Today’s author, Monica Poinescu, a Software Developer in Test on the Excel team, gives an overview of some new functions in Excel 2007 and along the w ...

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VBA + Excel Performance: Your Feedback Requested...

The Excel blog is back after a short break for the holidays. Happy New Year! Today's post comes from Chad Rothschiller, a Program Manager on the Excel ...

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Frank Wierzbicki: Progress with Mercurial on Jython: part 2

So yesterday's foray into Mercurial's test engine started with much excitement, but the excitement was short-lived. It turns out that the Mercurial t ...

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Frank Wierzbicki: Progress with Mercurial on Jython

Back in 2007, Charles Nutter posted a suggestion: get Mercurial (also called hg) running on Jython. At the time I downloaded hg to give it a try. Th ...

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Assumptions and Limitations

I recently came across this astonishing quotation, also referred to as “the F-twist”:“Truly important and significant hypotheses will be found to have ...

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Software I2C slave for 8051 (without dedicated hardware) - Engineering Freelance Job

I need following C-functions and procedures for I2C communication between two AT89C51CC03: 1.)slave side (only periodic timer interrupt procedure) a ...

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