As a Mac user at home and a Windows user at work, I had looked for a solution to sync my iCal calendar with my Google Calendar. I did find some ways to do it, such as taking advantage of iCalshare publishing, but never found one that did a two-way sync – that is, changes [...]
I watched a segment (on the Science channel) about BigBelly, a solar-powered trash compacting garbage bin that’s currently being used in some areas of New York. Built and developed by Seahorse Power Company and priced around $4,500, it crushes garbage based on some algorithm into eighth of its size when needed; thus, reducing the frequency [...]
Nice! VMWare recently released an open source version of its very popular virtual machine tools. It’s currently housed on Sourceforge, known as Open Virtual Machine Tools. The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user [...]
Here are seven “did you know” interesting computer facts (info consolidated from the CIO website): 1. What’s the closest computer to the North Pole? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Webcam #1, A NetCam XL, made by StarDot Technologies. 2. What’s the farthest computer from Earth? NASA’s Voyager satellite computes at the edge [...]
I was debugging an inherited multi-project WinForms application (from my co-worker and friend, Genaro Quismorio) today and came across this error twice (below), which was frustrating, annoying and very unproductive. This error occurred while stepping through a breakpoint [Debug.Break] in my WinForms code while looking for a bug. One fix I found on Google was [...]