Funny smiley translation: have fun!
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Now you can choose: use ODF for your documents!
MicrosoftTM released OfficeTM 2007 Service Pack 2, which contains various improvements to the latest version of Office. Among them, one is particularly important: the capability to read OpenDocument Format, the same format used by default by OpenOffice.org, NovellTM OpenOffice (go-oo), and KOffice, which has been approved as ISO standard. This addition empowers you to choose which format to use, in order to be backwardly compatible, and at the same time make your document easier to share, independently from the platform the receiver of the document is working on. In addition, the format has been adopted or is under adoption in various countries, and further details can be found here. Edit…
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Bibliography made easy with Zotero
Collecting bibliographic information and keeping them in order might become a complicated task. However things are made simpler thanks to Zotero a Firefox 3.0 extension that allows references to be captured directly from scientific search engines, and to store them in a easily manageble database, together with attachment (for example the paper in PDF format), noted and abstracts. Zotero can export the references in Bibtex format, and integrates with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer, to allow the references to be inserted in a straightforward manner. Moreover, the database and the attachments are indexed, and can be searched. The list of references can be organized in a multi-level library, and the…
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Two good C++ books
If you want to learn or improve your knowledge of C++, you should take a look at these two books: H. Schildt, C++: A Beginner’s Guide, Second edition, McGraw-Hill. H. Schildt, C++: The Complete Reference, Fourh edition, McGraw-Hill. Thanks to a friend of mine (mfoxdogg of #blendercoders@freenode.net) who suggested them to me!
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Sorry, comments deleted.
I have recently made a mistake during maintainance operations of my blog. Some of the most recent comments (20) were deleted. This was unintentional, and I apologize with who made those comments.
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Merry Christmas and Happy 2009!
I wish everyone happy holidays and a wonderful 2009 😀
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Good actions…
Christmas is getting close, and, in spite of the economic crisis, we are going to spend a lot of money buying things. It would be nice to use a little bit of that money to try to really make a difference, for many, supporting one of the numerous medical research projects that fight every day to find cures and therapies to save our life. There are many, all over the world. Just find the one you like more, and try to contribute, if possible.
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Compact fluorescent lamp bulbs
I had to replace some lamp bulbs at home, and while buying them, I found out that the price of compact fluorescent bulbs went down quite a bit compared to some year ago. With six dollars I bough four compact fluorescent lamps producing 1600 lumens each, with a power consumption of 23 Watts, compared to the 100 Watts required by a normal incandescent lamp to produce the same light. The quality of the light is good, very similar to the light produced by incandescent lamps. If the energy saving effect is summed up to the longer life cycle of these lamps (one lamp is supposed to last for 9 years,…
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Goodbye iPod, welcome sansa!
My old iPod nano died recently, so I bought a new mp3 player to bring with me when I practice sport. Following Moro’s suggestion, I looked for a SanDisk sansa. The player comes in a very essential packaging, with a USB cable, headphones, and the documentation, which is practically not necessary because using the player is very simple. No additional software is necessary to transfer your music, because it works directly with all the players supporting MPT (Media Transfer Protocol). Clear and useful information can be found on SanDisk’s support site, where it is possible to download the firmware updater, the updated documentation and a media file converter for Microsoft…
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Do you need to use your clothes dryer?
Today, while doing the laundry, I was wondering why people uses clothes dryers so much when I do not think it is really necessary. A clothes dryer is, in general, quite an inefficient machine, if we consider the energy used for a single drying cycle, which can reach 3-4 kWh per cycle. If the washing machine is efficient enough, clothes are just wet at the end of the spin cycle, and all what they need to dry is to be left on a line for some hours. Using a dryer is a double waste of energy: you consume a lot of energy to dry your clothes, and reduce their life!…