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2 04, 2010

Bootable USB Flash Drive for installing windows 7

By |2016-01-12T21:10:00+02:00April 2nd, 2010|technology, tutorial|0 Comments

First of all grab your self a 4GB+ USB flsh drive. Format the flash drive: In windows go to Windows Explorer. There you should see the USB storage drive in the devices list. Right click on it and select Format. Select NTFS from the drop down bar. Click Start. For windows Vista or Windows 7 you have to follow this process: Run Command prompt (CMD) as administrator. (Right  Click on it and Select run as Administrator) On the command prompt run the following commands: diskpart on the DISKPART prompt type "list disk" to get the list of drives on your computer. Locate the one that has the size of your flash drive and identify its number (e.g. Disk 6) Type "select disk 6" Identify any partitions on it "list partition" Select the partition you want to boot from e.g. "select partition 1" Activate it. Type "active" Quit diskpart by typing [...]

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7 12, 2009

touch and multi-touch interfaces

By |2024-08-16T17:33:57+02:00December 7th, 2009|Interaction Design, technology|0 Comments

Introduction to touch and multi-touch interfaces Touch-screens are device screens that provide interaction interface to various operating systems by using touch. Nowadays touch-screens are being used in a wide variety of devices and particularly in mobile computing with include laptops, smartphones, handhelds and lately tablet PCs. Touch-screen usage is approved to be straightforward, as touch-screen interaction is designed to be intuitive and quick to learn compared to other pointing devices (Benko, H., Wilson, A. D., & Baudisch, P. (2006). Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (pp. 1263-1272). ACM.), (Ichikawa, H., Homma, M., & Umemura, M. (1999). An experimental evaluation of input devices for pointing work. International Journal of Production Economics, 60-61, 235-240. doi:10.1016/S0925-5273,98,00162-5.). Touch-screens are used for interacting with many different types of applications in many different contexts and often replace traditional pointing devices such as the mouse and [...]

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4 06, 2009

googlebar mozdev firefox 3.Χ

By |2016-01-12T21:10:26+02:00June 4th, 2009|technology|16 Comments

this is based on googlebar 0.9.15.14 (link) In order to install googlebar on a 3.5+ firefox dist then follow these steps: download the original xpi: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/33 renane .xpi to .zip or open with an archive extractor open install.rdf with a text editor locate: em:maxVersion="3.0.*" change to em:maxVersion="X.X.*" [for instance: em:maxVersion="3.5.*] pack everything back into the an xpi file install as normal.   Update:: For firefox 3.6 use googlebar 0.9.20.03 .  

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