Archive for May 2010
What if a simple mental exercise could improve your memory and intelligence? A study published in PNAS, an important scientific journal, shows that a particular memory task called Dual N-Back may actually improve working memory (short term memory) and fluid intelligence. This finding is important because fluid intelligence was previously thought to be unchangeable. The [...]
This is by far the most innovative and surprisingly not so entertaining ad about Google Chrome browsers Speed Test. For behind-the-scenes footage of how this video was made: Want more details, read on: These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times. If you’re interested in the technical details, read on! Equipment used: [...]
To catch a thief, or for self defense you got to think like one. Google announces Jarlsberg, a web application that allows its users to publish snippets of text and store assorted files. “Unfortunately,” Jarlsberg has multiple security bugs ranging from cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, to information disclosure, denial of service, and remote [...]
Consider a situation where you had to execute a job depending on whether another/same program is running. To solve this problem, we take the help of tasklist,find commands. Here is the code which gives us that information, save it as a batch file and tweak it to your needs: In this example, we are checking [...]
Rational Application Developer (RAD) V 7.0 sometimes functions weird, the search menu is all disabled in all the perspectives and views. The temporary solution is to click the Search Icon Alternatively use the shortcut Ctrl+H, which brings the same widget . This issue seems to be a bug in Eclipse. It is sporadic. Generally a [...]
