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PST Converter Pro is a powerful email migration tool Helps you migrating your Mails, Contacts and Calendar Events from Outlook to Entourage (or PST to Entourage), Outlook to Apple Mail (or PST to Ap...

By carlaschroder  | 20 August 2009 - 12:08 PM

You want to install packages from a CD-ROM, but the process we've just described assumes you want to download software from an archive. How do you add a CD to sources.list? Modify /etc/apt/sources...

By chco  | Yesterday, 10:53 AM

The following excerpt from Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and Javascript outlines the pros and cons of the two approaches you can choose from when building an application for an Andro...

By andyo  | 29 November 2010 - 08:22 AM

There are a million ways to do a code review, but there’s one component that’s common to all—a single developer critically examining code. So it makes sense to ask what the data tells us about d...

By BrianSawyer  | Yesterday, 06:41 AM

To install a custom ROM on your phone (for example, to upgrade your behind-the-times Android OS to a more recent version), you'll first need to gain root access. If you haven't rooted your pho...

By BrianSawyer  | Yesterday, 06:21 AM

A while back, I rooted my G1 to install Froyo. But because that phone is relatively slow and has limited space (no removable/replaceable SD card), I've basically reserved that phone for tethering ...

By andyo  | 26 November 2010 - 05:19 PM

Complexity is everywhere in the software life cycle: requirements, analysis, design, and of course, implementation. Complexity is usually an undesired property of software because complexity makes sof...

By Doron Katz  | 27 November 2010 - 09:14 PM

The concept of Dictionaries are synonymous with most object-oriented languages, and Objective-C is no exception. Dictionaries via the class NSDictionary allow you to to use words and other sorts of ob...

By BrianSawyer  | 23 November 2010 - 06:41 AM

If you haven't already updated your iPad to iOS 4.2, go ahead and sync it in iTunes now and check for updates. The new version finally shipped yesterday, and it's well worth the upgrade for mu...

By chco  | 11 August 2010 - 09:06 AM

The Kindle comes with a very thorough dictionary and the following excerpt from Kindle: The Mini Missing Manual helps you tap into and get the most use out of yours.Wanna see something neat? Go grab a...

By andyo  | 24 November 2010 - 08:06 AM

I will begin with a distillation of our journey, a process for applying the scientific method to software engineering in an industrial environment. We called our version of the scientific method the Q...

By odewahn1  | 10 May 2010 - 12:00 PM

Stereoscopy is a technique for creating the illusion of depth in a 2D image. While the specifics vary, the general principle is that two images are taken of the same scene, but at slight offsets of ...

By Ángel Manuel García Carmona  | 23 November 2010 - 01:08 PM

WebBrowser.Navigate is a method which the WebBrowser can access to a website. For example, if we want that when click a button, the webbrowser navigates to an address, we use this function. If we ar...

By macslocum  | 23 November 2010 - 12:17 PM

Creating a WordPress blog is dead simple. Managing it is a little trickier. There's a host of administrative tasks and tweaks you'll want to run through. And don't forget to choose a new look: nothing...

By macslocum  | 23 November 2010 - 07:09 AM

Microsoft's Kinect is a hacker's dream. The combination of digital input, physical movement, sound and visuals inspires applications way beyond gaming. On first glance you can see how it could be used...

By ggiles2  | 22 November 2010 - 01:56 PM

By Philipp Janert, author of Data Analysis with Open Source Tools (O'Reilly Media; $39.99 USD) More data analysis efforts seem to go bad because of an excess of sophistication rather than a l...

By chco  | 22 November 2010 - 11:20 AM

This screencast shows you how to use the Remove Color Cast tool in Photoshop Elements 9 to correct a color cast with one click. The content in this screencast is from Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing...