Archive for August, 2011

Google Tech Talks latest

Color, Music, and Emotion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrONWEXCB8g Historypin: Google Maps and the 4th… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjgjYacsq6E HTML5 Multiplayer Game Development http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj1qTrpuXJ8 APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54WJHb4B8w A Geek’s Guide to Digital Forensics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPd-HiEvhhw Game On: 16 Design Patterns for User http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCX-izCYMk Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av67Ab0tF-8 Wittgenstein, Wheeler and… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QDZqFKmnBo Helping Domain Experts Build [...]

Google’s synonymous operator

The ~ operator (reads tilde) is Google’s search synonymous operator. For example if you want to search for telescope control or anything telescope <your synonymous of control> you should search for telescope ~control The thing is that a Google search synonymous is not necessarily a word with the same meaning, but instead a word in [...]

Starry Night v6 on Windows 7 x64

I was looking to check for visible sky events from my current location, so I tried to install a relatively old piece of software – “Starry Night” http://www.starrynight.com/ – still the very best I ever used, and also ASCOM platform compatible http://ascom-standards.org/. Unfortunately, the installer is not totally compatible with Windows 7 x64: it reports [...]

Battlefield 2 Windows 7 x64

If your Battlefield 2 just crashes to desktop (CtD) when launching any map, then you are probably a victim of the game’s poor installer, which causes a buffer overflow when trying to execute the file BF2VoiceSetup.EXE – related with the software’s Voice Over IP solution – but still goes on to complete with apparent success. [...]