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It can screw up all kinds of things. MTP Devices such as Windows Phone may not be recognized, and the normal way of updating the driver will fail. The only way to fix it: IIS may not work properly, and accessing a web page may…

Visual Studio Update 2 is a significant milestone due to its support for the Universal Project - write once and work on every Windows platform. Well, it is not quite true. This is understandable considering the drastic differences among the form factors of devices running differnt…

The US government's ability to print money at will provides tremendous benefit to American people. How great is this benefit? Maybe the best way to answer this question is imagining what would happen if the US dollar lost its reserve currency status. The article "What…

Most people usually just want to edit their videos (from phones, IP cameras, sports cameras such as GoPro) quickly for posting, so complex professional software is not the right type of video editors for them. The discontinued Movie Maker of Windows is a fantastic beloved…

Video over the internet here refers to transferring video signals from video ports (VGA or DVI) over the internet, not from ethernet ports of computers. Epiphan has products doing just that, but the broadcaster costs $1,600. The broadcaster essentially functions as a computer doing all the computation to convert the video…

Totalitarian regimes fear the truth most because they survive by telling lies, controlling their ruled people with brutal force and brainwashing. They are scared when people under their rule can access the truth and facts. In North Korea, radios and TV sets must be modified to receive only…

Fining is a portable drone with 1080p or better video, high-quality still images is challenging. The popular brand DJI's portable version is Spark, but it may be too big to fit in a backpack. However, there are some compact cases for Spark. SimToo is much…

The global video surveillance market revenue is estimated to grow from $13.98 billion in 2013 to $42.06 billion in 2020 at a CAGR of 16.97% from 2014 to 2020. The IP system market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.51%.

It is surprisingly difficult to transfer files from an app’s isolated storage to any other place unless it is an image file, which can be saved to the Media Library for Zune to transfer. There are a few involving options: Integrate with SkyDrive, and transfer…

There are numerous options for both screen capture and video editing. The quality of videos captured by many tools is said to be often poor. At least, the video capture by one of the most popular screen capture tools- SnagIt - is unacceptable to me, though SnagIt…

Retrieving H.264 video using RTSP over HTTP is one of the most protocol intensive work because it involves the following: The steps to retrieve and display H.264 video stream using RTSP over HTTP are the following: A simple scenario of processing stream data involves the following: A…

I read these books a while ago. The following is essentially the notes that I jotted down to express my opinion about them. Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (PRO-Developer) gives a semi-theoretical description of all aspects of Ajax with poor flow. ASP.NET MVC…

To use an open source project code, one needs to check the license first. GPL is a cancer. Once you touch a project with GPL, the app has to comply with the strict rules of GPL no matter how insiginificant the open source project is.

This is exactly what Android NDK is for. Its document is a very good guide, must-read for using Android NDK. It is quite common to use open source C or C++ libraries that are managed via Git for Android apps. The following are the steps:…

Android app widgets are often called widget by Android users, but different from widgets for developers which are visual components used to make apps.

America is refinancing now (2020-2021) due to low interest rates, so it takes an extra long time. One instance in 2019: Start: 2019-02-04 Approval: 2019-02-22 Closing: 2019-02-26 Two instances in 2020 A: Start: 2020-10-05 Approval: 2020-12- 12 Closing: 2021-01-02 B: Start: 2020-10-05 Approval: 2020-12-27 Closing: 2021-02-05

Toys "R" Us, established in April 1948 closed all its stores by the end of June 2018. It could have innovated into places to engage kids deeply for learning and playing. The store at North Shore Mall, Peabody, MA:

One may get a slew of errors when running a web app such as the following shown in Event Viewer: The Module DLL C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\compdyn.dll failed to load. The data is the error. The Module DLL C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\iis_ssi.dll failed to load. The data is the error. The Module…

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is essentially a languae for defining languages. Markup language describes how the content of documents should be interpreted. XML is an easier-to-use subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). HTML is an application of SGML and that is probably the only…

Google Assistant App Actions has poor documentation, especially for Java users. If you follow their example exactly step by step, the chances are it will not work as expected. It is also buggy. You can see this bug has persisted for well over a year.