Poor rural Venezuelans are using nets and hooks slung under kites to catch endangered flamingos to eat or sell their meat as they try to ward off hunger
a high-level graphical application framework. Although Agar was initially developed as a game engine for the upcoming Trek to the Cave, it is also being used in different types of applications, such as CAD.
Mac OS X, which combines a powerful core foundation with a compelling user interface called Aqua. With advanced features and an aesthetically refined use of color, transparency, and animation.
lecture notes for the course Programming Graphical User Interfaces (PGUI). The course belongs to the curriculum of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Tampere.
a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area.
for people who already know the some assembly and C to see why it is often very beneficial to use a direct assembly implementation over a pure C implementation.
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Version 1.0. Millions of development hours worth of code and over 1,600 patents are being contributed to the open source community.
What design patterns are applicable to Python? Some patterns are an intrinsic part of Python, other patterns require some careful coding to get the best from them.
Japanese warning signs are very different than warning signs in other parts of the world, because they usually contain a visual and easy to understand reason why something is dangerous or not allowed.
In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. 72 years later, the eighth drop is only just about to fall.
a program which will turn English-like phrases such as "declare foo as array 5 of pointer to function returning int" into C declarations such as "int (*foo[5])()".
a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents right out-of-the-box (without additional statistical training)
an e-mail notification system that scans the entire Microsoft Knowledge Base every night, and e-mails you when updates or additions are made to the technologies you subscribe to.
Almost every application with GUI needs icons. And they better be sexy. And stylish. And consistent. And small. Here are few tips for programatically creating icons using Java 2D features
an object based C++ class library that provides the necessary infrastructure to allow tool developers and sophisticated tool users to build parallel and serial tools through technology called dynamic instrumentation.
Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men.
Sunlight can convert triclosan, a common disinfectant used in anti-bacterial soaps, into a form of dioxin, and this process may produce some of the dioxin found in the environment, according to research at the University of Minnesota.
The numbers that control your life. You're identified by dozens of numbers. Your phone number, your driver's license number, your social security number, your zip code, your license plate, your credit card numbers. I find these numbers fascinating. Who distributes them? What can they be used for? How can you use them? How are they issued?
a tool that automatically converts existing Java-language code into Microsoft Visual C# for developers who want to move existing applications to the .NET Framework.
a group of international experts involved in network and system security. THC was founded in 1995 in Germany, has published over 60 software releases and technical papers and currently is among the top ten security groups worldwide.
contest offers a cash prize for the winning entry. In the past it has ranged from a low of $100 to a high of $500. Cash prizes for second place are usually awarded as well.
provides brief answers to a number of common questions concerning functional programming languages, and some pointers to relevant literature and internet resources.
on low-cost distribution shareware and freeware C/C++ source code. CUG launched the C/C++ Users Journal in 1983. We invented the term user supported software to describe this activity two decades before open source became an industry buzzword.
Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, Yair Weiss - a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie with a relatively modest amount of user input.
This report was originally written in 1992-1993. Therefore, some of its information is out-of-date. The Object Agency, Inc. believes, however, that the report still provides many useful insights.