Computing Trivia

If you are a Windows 7 user, it is likely you got very very frustrated with the apparently very very smart search interface that  excels  at frustrating  its user. Try finding a file in your computer that contains "recipe." For getting the right answer, I award you with a PhD specializing in Windows Search techniques. Just in case you are an ordinary human being like me who just can't get it, here's what I found. Type the following in the search box: content: "recipe" See below for a pictorial illustration. Oh, by the way, if your search term hs more than one word, suround them in quotes. So do not use this format :  content: wave guide Use this:   content: "wave guide"

My OS: Windows 7 Home Premuim 64bit Software Installed: NGINX 0.9.5 for Windows PHP: php-5.3.5-Win32-VC6-x86.zip MySQL: mysql-5.5.9-winx64.msi NGINX Installation Download from  http://nginx.org/en/download.html Unzip into C:\nginx Change the nginx.conf in C:\nginx\conf as per instructions at http://blog.siteroller.net/set-up-nginx-mysql-and-php-wemp-on-windows See my nginx.conf file  here . Note  that in this example, it is assumed that PHP is installed in C:\nginx\php (unzipped into this folder) and MySQl is installed in C:\Program Files\MySQL PHP Installation After downloading the zip version of PHP (V6, threadsafe, zip), unzip into C:\nginx\php\ Rename  php.ini-production  to  php.ini Make changes to this file as given in at  http://blog.siteroller.net/set-up-nginx-mysql-and-php-wemp-on-windows  but do not expect the line numbers given to match exactly. Activate the extensions  extension=php_mysql.dll  and  extension_dir  = "ext&q

A list of free or open source video production and publishing tools. Updates coloured orange : Tubecast  - Batch uploading of Youtube videos.  Download    VSCD   is Video Soft's free video editor . Quite descent. I have used it to create videos for my precious students. Adobe Flash Live Media Encoder (FLME)  - Live media streaming to popular Content Distribution Networks (CDN) such as Ustream and Kingdom Stream.  Download   OBS - Open Broadcaster Software   is a replacement for FMLE. It's rumoured to work better after you have figured out how to make it work. I don't like their brand icon though. It reminds me of a certain bad number. Deepburner  (free edition) - Deepburner is used to creating and copying DVDs and CDs.  Download Roxioburn  - Comes with Windows 7. Used to burn DVDs/CDs and also copy them.  LightWorks  - Video editing.  Download . DVDStyler  - DVD designer. DVDs are old school now... Windows Movie Maker. A Windows movie creator. Download.  Oh d

The effort required to develop a complete teaching module is considerable. It is similar to writing a book. Unlike a book which is considered in university promotions for academic staff, a blog or web-based module will not count. Therefore, my strategy to add value to the e-content module that I will develop and to self-motivate is to design the module in such a way that it can be released in book format also. That means I will work with two structures but one content-set. The module, titled "Website Design, Construction and Management" will be divided into three sections: Design Construction and Management of web sites