So I was surfin today and came across this article… http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/01/22/1507304.aspx You can get a controller here: http://www.phidgets.com/ If I ever have the time, I’m so doing this! If only I had the time….
You know how annoying it is when you are working with files that are essentially just text files but then windows search skips over it because it does not recognize the file type? Turns out windows registers filters and they come from the author of the file type. I found this nifty utility that allows …
Back in the day between watching TV sometimes there would be animated shorts I used to watch. Hilarious sometimes ans especially entertaining when you’re a kid. Apparently it started back in 1969 … Regardless there are tons of it on YouTube nowadays.. simply search for La Linea if you wanna take a look… pretty funny.
They cloned a friggin macaque monkey! Xinhua National Post Only problem is the used 304 eggs to do it. Can you say “monkey killers!”? Of course next up is lobbying for the harvesting of hundreds of human stem cells for research purposes… “oh yeah you need 300 of those? No problem, just kill the embryos …
So I was messing around with power management on battery powered devices today and I came across a relatively useful class: cPower class. Also see C# Suspend and Wakeup Basically it allows you to check on system state with the following methods: BatteryLifePercent BatteryRemainingSeconds BatteryTotalSeconds HasBattery BatteryLevel BatteryCharging UsingAC DriveAlseep SetPowerReq CanHibernate CanSuspend CanShutdown LockWorkstation …
So this company called Google came up with some mapping app that includes an API apparently. Lots of fun to be had from there! So poking around on the web I found several places with good resources such as tutorials for the lehman. Below is a few: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ – When in doubt RTFM http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/ – …
OK so if you ever needed to use Windows Management Interface to retrieve some shday OS-type values like battery serial numbers or MAC Addresses then you’re in luck. I had to do this today, albeit for relatively rare battery info. Here’s a snippet: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); try { ManagementObjectSearcher query = new ManagementObjectSearcher(“SELECT …