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This feature is really nice! I downloaded the latest Google Maps from my non-GPS Symbian phone, fired it and immediately "My Location" was located on the map, with acceptable and in fact praisable accuracy. The way how it works (in theory) is no rocket science, yet it is just this one extra...
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Nearly 3 years after Google Desktop making a debut on Windows, it's time for its presence on Linux Desktop. It's available at http://desktop.google.com/linux/ , requiring glibc 2.3.2+, gtk+ 2.2.0+. Some brief look is also available here .
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Recently I finally have some time to study the family of contents surrouding Guidance Automation and Software Factories - I would say there are really very neat stuff from the patterns and practices team, for the efforts to templatize the proven workflow/methodolgies/actions in various typical application...
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This is rather applicable for either personal projects or projects involving small/medium teams for coherent product development. The main requirement of any agile process is to have (1) clearly provide visibility into timeline, milestones, roadmaps (2) facilitate version control of source codes or draft...
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When you need quickly check use of some particular function (from standard library or open-source library, eg to see declarations or actual usages), or you want to find out a value of ALL_CAPITAL_LETTER constant you could now type it into http://www.google.com/codesearch . With regular expression supported...
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Another useful tool proposed by my colleague for generation of bid documents (maybe corporate communication documents too). http://www.andrewdavidson.com/gibberish/ *)
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I wonder if it is beneficial to write the document in DocBook format so that the resultant document is much more structured than Word. DocBook format can also be transformed using xslt and rendered using different renderers to produce most common outputs (html, pdf, etc) : this investment would aid a...
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Should you ever need to perform backup of your PC, "Acronis True Image" http://www.acronis.com/ is a fairly good choice, which runs completely inside the XP box, allowing to backup per files/folders, partitions, or entire harddisk, with compression, with wildcard exclusion, at scheduled times...
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Oracle released a free Oracle database version back at the end of Oct - Express Edition - it's free. ISV can embed it in their products and redistribute it freely. This database is limited to use on one-processor machines and handles up to four gigabytes of user data and up to one gigabyte of memory...
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I saw and used this document management system on a recent trip to Hong Kong during some bidding tasks. I think it is very useful tool for managing the large volume of revisions of chapters during any bid. Equally it is useful for project that needs a document repository for tracebility purpose while...
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This is a continuity of the SendTo topic. WinZip and WinRar have pretty convenient explorer context menu such as "Add to archive...". I regularly use tar and bzip2 from the Cygwin on the Windows box and I think putting them into a SendTo would be handy sometimes. I create a shortcut item in...
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Context menu could be very handy at times but overdoing is sometimes detrimental, in terms of responsiveness. It is useful to note down several frequent registry locations that can speed up adding, removing or locating them. // Global type HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\[name]\command @="[command]"...
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(1) The first is related to copying and pasting text from the browser (eg IE). Whenever I try to copy information from inside the browser to Word, the firewall will be triggered and ask if I want to access the site, no matter if being a single word, a single line or a complete table. Regardless of allowing...
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It had to happen, just a matter of when... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/14/google_desktop_search/ To download, http://desktop.google.com/