NULL The electric and super-compact design car

The electric and super-compact design car of the future, beautiful and futuristic design by Jeongche Yoon. This is the Null, a mobile widget concept for next generation EV (Electric Vehicle) has been designed as solution to save energy and space. Inspired by smart phone industry based on the open-source marketing of app store, this is more like hardware that you put on your car to make it do more.This is exciting new opportunities for automobile industry to establish a clean and creative design for the future society.Sou...

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Panther: EXISTS or NOT EXISTS

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Português e InglêsEnglish version:I'll continue with the quick and easy posts about Panther (v11.70). This time I'll focus on some new SQL that was added in Panther. Most (if not all) CREATE and DROP statements now allow for IF NOT EXISTS and IF EXISTS clauses respectively. These clauses allow us to write CREATE/DROP statements that will not raise errors in case the objects already exist and we're trying to create them, or when they don't exist and we're trying to drop them.As an example:panther@pacman.onlinedomus.net:fnunes-> onstat -IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC1 -- On-Line -- Up 00:03:17 -- 369588 Kbytespanther@pacman.onlinedomus.net:fnunes-> dbaccess stores -Database selected.> DROP...

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Online Spreadsheets - EditGrid Need a quick spreadsheet? This is excellent, if you've not seen it before tags: spreadsheets Pittsburgh Public Schools | Instructional Technology (OIT) Distance Learning opportunities. Got video conference equipment that's collecting dust? tags: videoconferencing 98 Snow Leopard tips, tricks and tweaks | News | TechRadar UK "We're willing to bet that even the most seasoned Mac user won't have used half of these cunning techniques on their machine. With this huge selection of tips at your disposal, prepare to speed up the way you work on your Mac forever. " tags: macos Posted...

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Self Computer Maintenance: Part 3 Using the Defragmentation Tools

Greeting to all, to continue on this series another way of accessing the scan disk tool is by pointing your mouse on the my computer picture or icon then double click to access the item of the icon, then select the hard disk drive you want to be fixed. After selecting the hard disk point the mouse on the disk and press the mouse right button or just press the right click button. From here a menu will appear from that menu select the properties tab at the bottom of the menu and the dialog box for the my computer icon will appear. Then select the TOOLS tab which contain the Scandisk, Defragmentation and Back-up tools. Then select Scan-disk and press start. Again if it needs to be scheduled then just followed the instruction on the screen.Now after finishing the repair and diagnostic of the scandisk,...

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Tweet it from Everest: "OMG! We're halfway up!"

KATHMANDU, Nepal - You can not get away from a cell phone call, Even at the top of the world.Thanks to newly installed 3G towers near Mount Everest's base camp, dog explorers surf the Web, Facebook tweet and post updates Without Worrying Their Signals That will disappear Into thin air. The new high-speed service, Announced Friday by Ncell, a Subsidiary of Swedish telecom company TeliaSonera, will allow mountaineers setting off to the summit of the world's tallest mountain to access wireless Internet and make video calls to family, friends and supporters."You know, I think it's kind of good and kind of bad, But to me it's kind of inevitable,"...

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China assured Clinton on rare earth exports

HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday sought and Receive assurances from China's Foreign Minister about the country's key export of exotic metals to the global high-tech industry, a U.S. official said.The official Said Clinton raised the matter with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of a summit of East Asian Leaders in Vietnam. Clinton "sought clarification on the Chinese Government's policy on the export of rare earth minerals and Receive assurances," the official said.The official, Who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a private conversation Diplomatic, Did not Specify What...

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Russia will create a Windows operating system to stop

The Russian state plans to upgrade their computer to a new operating system that allows independence from U.S. giant Microsoft.Moscow allocate $ 4.9 million dollars to develop a system based on Linux. Ponomarev, a computer expert, said some details would be revealed in December at a meeting led by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov."We are independent from Windows, but we risk becoming a reflective implementation of Linu...

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The Spirit has made important discovery on Mars

Spirit is an unfortunate robot that is stuck in the sand on Mars last year, but sedentary in their months has made a great discovery: evidence of subsurface water on the planet.Recall that the Spirit ended its mission in 2004 and was embarked on an extra task, but in April 2009 was stuck in the sand. While he tried to leave, followed jammed and seven months after it broke a second round. Now is a scientist as stationary.To take advantage of the situation, they let this young scientists introduced an underground conduit for sampling. The tests varied compositions found in the soil layers under the Spirit, insoluble materials near the surface and...

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Top Three Web Based Image Editors

If you are using a computer that doesn't have a decent image editor program, then you can make use of a variety of web-based image editors. Having surveyed those that are freely available, I present a list of the top three. Each of these alows you to perform a variety of simple tasks upon an image, such as cropping and resizing. Each also includes the usual drawing tools as well as supporting layers. Please try them out and leave a comment to share your experiences.Editor by pixlr.comEditor enables you to create new images or open image files from your computer or from the web in the following formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, psd and pxd (Editor's...

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At the International Dyslexia Association Conference in Phoenix

Wow if only they had used Ginger to check the spelling! In any case-I just got into Phoenix yesterday where I will be helping out at the Ginger Booth at the 60th Annual International Dyslexia Association Conference. It was great meeting and talking with all of the educators who had a chance to come over and see Ginger in action. Each attendee received a free copy of Ginger which they can download to their own computer when they get home. Everyone who I spoke to yesterday was in awe as they watched Ginger process the spelling errors and make the correct suggestions. With each and every release of Ginger the spelling and grammar correction gets...

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New blog from Paraguay

This article will only be written in EnglishEste artigo só tem versão Inglesa. Para ver esta notícia em Português consulte o site do Cesar MartinsThere is a new south American blog, written in castilian. It's located here:http://informixpy.blogspot.com/The author is Javier Gray.Apparently Javier wants to translate some articles from other blogs (he already did it once from Cesar's blog) besides writing his own articles. Javier also requested my permission to do the same from my blog. So, permission is granted as long as a reference to the original author is kept (as he did with Cesar's article). Hopefully, some of this blog's articles will be available in English, Portuguese and Castilian! That's great! Anybody wants to pick up for French and Chinese (and other...

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Capture Web Page Scrolling Screen

I Have found a Firefox Add ons to Capture Web Page Scrolling Screen for long time, but a tragedy happen and i must reinstall my operating system and forgot it's name.What the hell is the name. I search on google and cannot found the add ons because it was less popular in search engine.A day later i remember the name and suddenly i install it again. The name is ScreenGrab. it was popular add ons to Capture Web Page Screen and it can be doing task like Capture Web Page Scrolling Screen.Here it is the result of ScreenG...

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Self Computer Maintenance Part 2: Using the SCANDISK and DISK DEFRAGMENATION software

To continue on this series, if you already has a UPS and its up and running, congratulation. The next set of tools is also very important as its take care of a specific hardware device on your computer the all important Hard Disk Drive. Yup this two software is often ignore because they take time to implement. But sometimes we need to pause for a moment to know what is going on and know the status of our computer, especially the hard disk drive.The two software i'm mentioning is the scandisk and the defragmentation tool for windows user. Both software are completely free. Its already inside windows you just need to access and used...

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Providing Technical Support with Glance

During the course of a week, I am spending more and more of my time working with teachers, providing them with professional development on various assistive technologies that can be implemented in the classroom. For many of the teachers that I work with this is their first encounter with many of the assistive technologies that are being introduced. Not being on site, I often leave access to software guides and reference materials on my Google Site for the teachers to access- should they need help. There are those times when these materials are not enough to pinpoint a particular issue and technical support is needed. Just last week I received...

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Assistive Technology Webinar: From Knowledge to Advocacy

For someone who has been in the field of assistive technology for over 25 years it is really very exciting to see how far technology has come to assist students with special needs. For as long as I have been in the field, I know just how important it is for special education students to have have access to assistive technology. Unfortunately, not every school has the personnel who are knowledgeable about the latest advances in the field of assistive technology and so students are generally not offered the opportunity to try these tools. It is with this in mind that this webinar came to be. I reasoned that if parents became more knowledgeable...

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Using PaperShow for Teachers in the Music Classroom

I was talking with my wife and daughter, who are both musicians about PaperShow for Teachers and how it could be used in the music classroom, when it dawned on me how great this could be for writing music on staffs that everyone could see. In order to accomplish this with PaperShow for Teachers I did a quick search on Google for musical staffs in a PDF format that were in the landscape orientation.I found a rather good site to download some staffs in the landscape mode and then I launched PaperShow for Teachers, imported the musical staff into the application and then printed it on the PaperShow for Teachers interactive paper on my HP Color Inkjet...

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Technical Support: Sharing a small knowldege

Greeting to all, before i continue with the series on Self computer maintenance, i would like to share a bit of information on how to make a Technical Support job easier. Offcourse this not applicable to all Tech Supp job outhere. But i hope with this i can help some Tech Guy how to make your job easier if your the only one in your company and if that company allows employee to take good care of there own computer unit. Again this not applicable to all. Being a technical support guy for all sort of computer problems in a company is reely hard and it also harder if your the only one there. Your expected to solved almost any computer problem that the company and its employee encounters. Luckily we have the good all internet as our resources to help us in our daily task of trouble-shooting the...

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Khan Academy WOW! Make sure your math folks see this resource. Make sure your STUDENTS know how to get to this. tags: math resources Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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iTunes Apps Store Now Has Special Education Section

A couple of weeks a go I had the opportunity to work with a student who was having difficulty in the area of fine motor skills and decided to bring my iPad along. I had downloaded a number of apps to trial with the student but was counting on using the  iWriteWords app to see how the student would do with it. To say the least it was incredible to watch the student use the app and to see just how focused he was while working with it. His special education teacher and some of his therapist who watched the demonstration were amazed at his task engagement and attention.It has been really exciting to see the iPad move into the realm of special...

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Posted in: App Store,Apple iPad,assistive technology,iTunes,iWriteWords

Self Computer Maintenance Part 1: Using UPS on your Computer

Greetings, today i will begin a series of self computer maintenance blog. This series is for those who is does not have a technical background or the ordinary user who wants to maintain there computer by themselves. I hope i can impart to you some simple things on how to maintain your computer without the help of a technical guy. To begin with do you know a electrical device that maintain power to your computer on a short period of time in an event of a power failure? This electrical device can really help us in such a scenario to SAVE our documents or works in progress and to properly shutdown our computer. Properly turn off your computer is one of the major factor that will prolong its life and its usefulness. With the help of the UPS, untimely shutdown during power failure...

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Informix today: an executive statement / Informix hoje: Declaração de um executivo

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Português e InglêsEnglish version:I'm doing a pause in the Panther related articles to make echo of something equally important. The ones more involved in the Informix community surely recognize the name of Robert D. Thomas. He's an IBM executive, more precisely a vice president for Information Management and he has been addressing some communications to the Informix community.He did it in March and he's doing it againI won't repeat here what he writes in his latest letter, but I'd like to mention something about him. As you can see in both these letters and also on his session in IIUG conference in 2010, he always and I mean always starts his messages with a story. It may look strange but we must admit that it really...

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Posted in: comunidade informix,informix,informix comunity,marketing,Rob Thomas

Supporting Students in the Classroom with PaperShow for Teachers

For many students with learning disabilities, taking notes can be a daunting task. In classrooms where teachers are providing in-class support having access to PaperShow for Teachers can be invaluable. PaperShow for Teachers is a digital pen and paper technology that allows teachers to easily share written notes with the entire classroom. Simply plug in the PaperShow for Teachers USB key into your Mac or PC and start writing on the notebook paper that is supplied. With your computer connected to a data projector now all of the students can see what is recorded in real time. Just imagine for a moment that as the support teacher, you are...

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Panther: "extenting" indexes / "extenting" indíces

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Português e InglêsEnglish version:Very short article for very simple feature: Since v11.7 (Panther) you can now define the extent size for indexes as we use to do with tables (data). Many people may find this a great feature, or a must have (specially if you worked with other RDBMS before), but for me it's relatively useless (unless it makes easier to port SQL scripts).Why do I think this? Because Informix has been clever enough to find a good size for the index extents. It simply doesn't need us to tell it. It knows the size that the key will need for each index entry, and it knows the table's extent size. So it can calculate how many rows will fit in the data area (since it knows the extent size) and then it can...

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The Hard Disk Drive Part 2

As i mentioned on part1 of this blog. Your requirement is important in determining the size of your hard disk. I also mentioned the term IDE, EIDE and SATA, well this are just some of the technology involve in a total hard disk makeup. The other technology is the RPM or Revolution Per Minute.The WHAT?????. You see there are plates inside the hard disk, this circular plate is coated with a certain material that make it able to store your data. Now what is that material, you may ask. I will try to give a less technical explanation of that as i can. I need to maintain a less technical look for all this technical stuff so i can reach out...

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AnyBook Reader from Franklin - Teacher Tested

When I first learned about AnyBook Reader from Franklin I knew I had to get my hands on it and give it a test run. The idea behind AnyBook Reader is very straightforward. Pick a book any book, activate one of the provided stickers, record the page, and then let your child hear your voice reading the book. When my AnyBook Reader arrived from Franklin, I was excited to give it a whirl. I first installed the 2 AAA batteries and then followed the simple instructions that were provided and within seconds I was able to hear myself read the book. Following the sequence in the instructional  guide was made even easier as AnyBook Reader provides...

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Posted in: accesible,AnyBook Reader,books,Fraklin

Panther: oninit -i ... ups... too late... or not / Panther: oninit -i ... ups... tarde de mais... ou não

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:I hope that this one will be quick... How many of us have tried to initialize (oninit -i) an already initialized instance by mistake? Personally I don't think I did it, but our mind tends to erase bad experiences :) But we have heard too many stories like this. A problem in the environment setup and this can easily happen.Well, the good folks from R&D tried to keep us safe from ourselves by introducing a new parameter called FULL_DISK_INIT. It's something that magically appears in the $ONCONFIG file with the value of 0, or that simply is not there... It's absence, or the value 0, means that if you run oninit -i and there is already an informix page in the rootdbs chunk, it will...

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Posted in: chunk overwrite,FULL_DISK_INIT,informix,inicializar,initialize,instancia,intance,oninit -i,sobreposicao chunk

Adobe Unveils New Acrobat X Solutions

Easily Create, Review and Share Compelling Documents with Greater Productivity Across OrganizationsSAN JOSE, Calif., — Oct. 18, 2010 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the Adobe® Acrobat® X software family – Acrobat X, Reader® X, the Acrobat X Suite and new document exchange services at Acrobat.com – that empowers professionals to innovate and create higher quality content, driving tighter collaboration and productivity across teams in today’s dynamic business environments.“Companies today need to work with their customers and partners in multiple time zones, languages and cross-functional teams,” said Melissa Webster,...

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