July 5, 2009 at 5:07 pm (Personal)
Tags: MCP, MS, certification, professional
Hi everyone! I have been inactive in the blog lately, but since school is over, I will now be able to devote more time and attention here.
I attended a MS certification exam recently(well, last week), thanks to Microsoft’s free exam voucher for students, and I passed it 
So I am now officially a MCP.
The exam that I sat for was “TS: Microsoft .NET Framework: Application Development Foundation” btw.
Anyway, just wanted to share the news. See ya!
June 15, 2009 at 10:18 pm (Useful information, Windows)
Tags: device, dialog, eject, hardware, hotkey, programmatically, remove, safely, shortcut
Just right click anywhere in a folder select New->Shortcut.
As the path to the shortcut, write this:
%windir%\system32\RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
Now, whenever you double-click that shortcut, it will open up the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog.
You can actually do better by selecting “Properties” from the context menu of the shortcut, and assigning a hotkey for it. Now, you don’t need to search for the icon in the system tray. You just have to press a hotkey. Hope it increases your productivity a little bit.
By the way, you can also execute the path above programmatically to get the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog.
June 5, 2009 at 11:00 am (Mobile, Mobile Platforms, Windows)
Tags: command line, executable, full path, parameter, run dialog, windows mobile
I learned this very neat trick last summer; however, a couple of months ago I couldn’t find the information again. Now that’ I’ve found it again, I wanted to share it here so that I do not lose it
By using a key combination, you can actually make the Run dialog which we are all accustomed to, to show up on Windows Mobile too.
It is really like the one on Windows, and you can add command-line parameters too. (like the one in the picture; you can open IE with a predefined address)
Hold the Action hardware button and then tap and hold the time display at the top right of the screen. When you release the stylus, a menu will popup. Select the Run option and there it is! Enter the full path of any executable on the device with any parameters you may like to give.
June 2, 2009 at 5:08 pm (Others)
Tags: 360, control system, face, human-computer interaction, natal, new era in gaming, project, reality, recognition, virtual, voice, weight loss for gamers, xbox
You are the Controller!
Project Natal allows the players to get into interaction with the game by not playing it with a controller, but by being the controller itself! Read the rest of this entry »
May 5, 2009 at 11:23 pm (Others)
Tags: üniversite, boğaziçi, cetürk, ceviz.net, etkinlik, gün, teknoloji, web
May 3, 2009 at 1:30 am (Others, Useful information)
Tags: automated, bots, cannot, captcha, cmu, computational, computers, crowdsourcing, games, genius, google, human, luis von ahn, microsoft, power, problem, purpose, solve, tag images, utilization, with
I just watched this great video of a Google Tech Talk by Luis von Ahn; who is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Luis von Ahn developed reCAPTCHA, a new form of CAPTCHA that also helps digitize books. In reCAPTCHA, the images of words displayed to the user come directly from old books that are being digitized; they are words that optical character recognition could not identify and are sent to people throughout the Web to be identified. He also was awarded many fellowships and awards like the MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a., the "genius award").
He came up with really interesting thoughts on how to use humans to identify and tag images on Google’s image database, and more importantly, how to do it for free! When people play, they help label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to significantly improve the accuracy of image search. There are, of course, algorithms behind to prevent cheating and to prevent wrong tags.
This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. The idea is to make the people want to help this verification process by actually turning it into an enjoyable and fun game!
April 11, 2009 at 9:05 pm (Others, Windows)
Tags: 3, action, arena, beta, game, live, quake
I just started playing Quake Live, which is actually very much like Quake 3 except not as a game you buy and first install to your computer; but as a web browser game! Wow =)
It was already functional in 2008, however it was an invitation-only closed beta at that time. On February 24, 2009; they unlocked the doors, and started an Open Beta!
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