Free Games and Downloads
Most frequently highlighted phrases on Kindle books
Apparently Amazon can record which passages have been highlighted in their Kindle books, and have produced a list of the most highlighted passages.
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It seems that people like to highlight passages out of the Hunger Games and Catching fire, which ...
The ongoing and never complete Introduction to Visual Basic Dot Net - manual
As maintenance of this site has fallen behind over the last year I thought it was time to share some of the stuff I have been doing. Here is a manual I am working on at the moment with my students as an introduction to Visual Basic.Net, using Visual....
How to stop spellchecking parts of a Word 2010 document
I seem to be working with really large documents at the moment, upwards of 200 pages and over 40K of words. The problem I am finding is that part of the text is made up of code and the spellchecker borks at all the \'errors\' it finds and stops.
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As this link comes from Microsoft\'s own community I suppose that they are legit, so have a look at these great free manuals and guides for Microsoft products.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssaudicommunity/archive/2012/12/23/large-collection-of-fre...
Get Windows 8 Media Pack for free! - and maybe Windows 8 Professional for free as well!
Until January 31, 2013 you can get a free product key that will allow you to add the Windows 8 Media Center Pack to an existing Windows 8 Pro installation.
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A bonus is the report that it will make a an unactivated Win 8 active ie: you get Win 8 p...
Looking forward to Windows 8? I was, but my near new laptop won't take it. Thanks Dell.
Talk about unbelievable. My one year old Dell Inspiron 15 Intel N5010 won\'t work under Windows 8. Having spent an evening trying to install Windows 8 Enterprise, which I need for teaching Windows 8 programming, I found to my shock that this near new...
Whats new in Windows 8 Phone
A great overview of what developers can work on in Windows 8 Phone, well with a read.
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/What%27s_new_in_Windows_Phone_8
Download the new Google Play App to delete uninstalled apps from the uninstalled list
Finally you can go through your apps list and delete those apps you tried once then deleted that are filling up your apps list. Great news!
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The new Google play app is downloaded from the link and when you run it installs on your phone replacing ...
Real time world wide flight tracker website
This is amazing, and an indication of just how information integration will affect our lives in the future. On this site, and there are others like it, you can see every airplane, commercial passenger at least I think, in the air at present and see a...
Android App #4 - Quick Movie Review
Sometimes I want to see quickly how good is a movie and am I just wasting my time with it when its coming on, or when renting a video (yeah from a shop). To that end I created Quick Movie Review, it is a small program that connects to RottenTomatoes....
Android App #3 - A GPS location finder now with GPS Messaging!!
Updates at the end. New Messaging system. New Weather and Search. I had fun making this app. Basically its a compass that points in the direction of a chosen latitude and longitude and gives a distance. You can save the place you are at to a database...
Go to Google search, type in Do a barrel roll and watch the fun.
You can also click on the link https://www.google.com/search?q=do%20a%20barrel%20roll
Thats some fine coding!!!
My first Android App - Grocery Shopping App
Updates at the bottom....
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Well I have done it, created and uploaded my first android app. Its not a biggie, and it will probably get lost in a mass of other shopping lists, but its a start. Its SQLite Database driven and runs through a Scrolling...
My Android App #2 - A bike fitting calculator
When you get into cycling, even at a light recreational level, its important to get your bike fitted for your body size. Not just the \" can you stand over the top tube\" type fitting, but the length of your torso, the length of your inner leg, and.....
If you have Firefox Portable, which runs off your flash drive, you will have found, as I have, that Adobe doesn\'t want to update.
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Apparently the most recent versions of Adobe flash are compiled in such a way as not to be installable on portable ...
Want to learn Android? Here are some resources
Here is an interesting video on reverse engineering Android.
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http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=25807610
Someone has set up a good little site here with Android coding snippets
http://android-coding.blogspot.com/
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Stuffucanuse has an Android App!
Recently I bought a new cell phone advancing from an ordinary brick to a nice smartphone mobile. One of the reasons for getting the machine is to learn how to program mobile apps.
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To this end I have started working on the site. There is now a de...
Google has 900,000 servers uses 0.01% of worldwide electricity use
Have Google watchers been overestimating the number of servers in the company’s data center network? Recent guesstimates have placed Google’s server count at more than 1 million. But new data on Google’s energy use suggests that the company is...
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