How to implement a DelayTextBox - Part 2

Apr 16, 2012 by Stefan

As compared to solution #1 (using a Timer), the second approach (using the Rx / Reactive Extensions library) brings quite a few advantages: ... read more


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How to implement a DelayTextBox - Part 1

Mar 12, 2012 by Stefan

When coding, you often need to implement a functionality that requires to be automatically performed after the text inside a text-box has changed. This can easily be implemented using the TextChanged event of a TextBox control. ... read more


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How to upgrade your smartphone / tablet to Android 4.0 - Part 2

Feb 10, 2012 by DanM

Apart from the gentle way, there's also a hard way to upgrade your smartphone / tablet to the latest version of Android - Android 4.0. However, I don't recommend any of the methods presented in this post if you don't like taking risks! ... read more


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How to upgrade your smartphone / tablet to Android 4.0 - Part 1

Jan 27, 2012 by DanM

This how to presents the steps you need to follow in order to upgrade your smartphone / tablet to the latest version of Android - Android 4.0 (also known as "Ice Cream Sandwich"). ... read more


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Android 4.0: the Google delight

Dec 21, 2011 by Oana

Released on October 19, together with Galaxy Nexus smartphone, Ice Cream Sandwich proves to be worthy of its dual name: enhanced user interface, better speed and performance, plus a set of new functionalities that aim the multi-touch use. ... read more


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Android 3.0 Honeycomb: ready to conquer the tablet market

Jul 19, 2011 by Oana

Also known as Honeycomb, Android 3.0 is a tablet oriented platform which supports devices with larger screen size. Honeycomb is the next version in line after the 2.3 version, aka Gingerbread, and the predecessor of the soon to come Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, which will be a dual platform compatible with both smartphones and tablets. ... read more


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Super OS - is this the future of operating systems?

May 10, 2011 by Oana

At the end of April, AI (Always Innovating) has launched a hybrid OS which incorporates four different operating systems. I'm talking about Super Jumbo which integrates AI's own OS (Angstrom Linux remaster), Ubuntu, Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Chrome OS ... read more


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Chronicle of a death foretold: Digg and Delicious

Apr 19, 2011 by Mihai

"What goes up must come down, eventually" - this old saying couldn't be more right in the case of social networking sites. Sites such as Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, which are fighting fearless for our free time, offer (in exchange for our personal information) amusement and a couple of followers. ... read more


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IE 9 (RC): ups and downs

Mar 03, 2011 by Oana

Last month, on February 10, Microsoft has launched the release candidate (RC) for IE 9 browser. Theoretically this is the last phase of development before the RTM (ready to manufacturing) version, the company focusing on fixing the remaining bugs. ... read more


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Windows partners with Nokia: the next step in smartphone domination

Feb 14, 2011 by Oana

On Feb. 11, the Finnish multinational Nokia and the American giant Microsoft have announced their partnership and a new smartphone strategy: building Nokia smartphones which will run on the Windows Phone 7 platform. But that's not all, the two companies will mingle other services as well. ... read more


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Web vs. desktop applications: friends or foes?

Jan 11, 2011 by Oana

With a steadily increasing number of households that have Internet access around the world (according to statistics, in 2010, in UK , 73% of the households - almost 19.2 million households - had an Internet connection), in the last couple of years web applications have taken a huge bite from the desktop apps market share. ... read more


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Bill Gates pledges to give

Dec 17, 2010 by Oana

By now everybody knows that Bill Gates and his friend Warren Buffett have convinced many billionaires to donate most of their wealth to charity back in August. "The Giving Pledge" gathered more then 30 American billionaires such as: Michael Bloomberg (New York Mayor), Larry Ellison (Oracle co-founder), T. Boone Pickens, Ted Turner, David Rockefeller and Ronald Perelman to join their cause. ... read more


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Waiting for Google OS... should Windows watch its back?

Oct 23, 2010 by DanM

The rumor that Google is launching an operating system is no longer breaking news and almost everybody is waiting for the final release. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco (Nov. 2010), Google boss, Eric Schmidt, announced that the Google OS will be available “in the next few months". ... read more


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Photosynth: 3D art at your fingertips

Sep 17, 2010 by DanM

Photosynth is a piece of software created by Microsoft which allows users to recreate a 3D or a panoramic scene by using a series of flat photos of the same object or location. If you wonder how can this be possible, the answer is presented in this article.
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E-learning: a rival for traditional learning - or a powerful ally?

Aug 10, 2010 by Oana

If for some people the first word from the title may seem new, for the most of you I'm positive that it's almost familiar. Thanks to the technological advancements and to our need to shrink distances, we've developed a form of learning which is capable of offering all the information we need in the comfort of our own house. ... read more


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Can IE9 regain the lost market share?

Jul 23, 2010 by Andreea

With the release of the newest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari forcing the boundaries of the web, Internet Explorer has lost plenty of market share. ... read more


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Microsoft's internal war: Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista

Jul 09, 2010 by DanM

When two important products of the same brand enter in competition with one another, the outcome, no matter the result, for sure will be satisfactory for the "mother company". ... read more


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Apple vs. Microsoft... or is it vs. Google?

Jun 25, 2010 by Oana

By now you've probably heard that Apple is the newest company to challenge the so called title "World's Biggest Tech Company", in the detriment of Microsoft. ... read more


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HTML 5 - The Evolving Web

Jun 09, 2010 by Oana

The World Wide Web is an environment which will never cease to evolve and to create newer and newer possibilities and solutions for every imaginable need. Such an example is HTML5: the next generation of HyperText Markup Language. ... read more


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Google Chrome is GROWING

May 12, 2010 by DanM

Google Chrome is growing, and it's growing fast! Launched on September 2, 2008 as a beta version (the [last] stable version was released on April 27, 2010), Google Chrome didn't start as an eye catcher. ... read more


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