Story about the pride of Finland.

Rare Exports part 1

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I just installed a plugin made by Kjell Bublitz. It enables you to use the excellent Lightbox script made by Lokesh Dhakar. This plugin was very easy to install (just upload and activate). It works very well and integrates into WordPress perfectly.

You can find the plugin here:
http://www.m3nt0r.de/blog/lightbox-wordpress-plugin/

Here’s few demo images:

Single image

Series of images

Whew! After about 6 hours of constant debugging and testing in VMWare I finally managed to find the cause for a problem that prevented Windows from shutting down if my Application was running. The solution is very simple, in my case at least. Basically I had one component that used AllocateHWND to create a handle. In my WindowProc I didn’t have a call to the DefWindowProc, so the WM_QUERYENDSESSION didn’t get handled properly.

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This is just cool project. I could definitely see myself using this type of device to move around in the city. It’s a pretty simple design using PIC16F876A as it’s brain. Seems like a nice weekend project

http://www.ben.jellybaby.net/

I’ve always been interested in computer interfaces, both software and physical. We are still using the same keyboard and mouse as was used 20 years ago. Now I’m not saying these are bad methods, I just think that there is room for improvements. Same goes for the software side.

Multi touch screen is one of my favorite "different approach". It seems like a very natural way to interact with computer. Here’s an interesting presentation from Jeff Han about multi touch screen use:

Of course the changes doesn’t have to be so big. I’ve always wanted to research eye tracking combined in mouse use.