Whoever moved from Qt 4.0 to 4.1 typically realized that for some widgets, the background is not what it is supposed to be. In the latest Qt Quarterly article Transparent Backgrounds in Qt 4.1, Andreas Hanssen explained this feature in details. He also elaborated a bit about backing store, also a ne...

Is it just me, or listening to the first few seconds of Savin’ Me also reminds you of How You Remind Me (yes, I’m aware of that Someday) ?

Recently I wanted a mini music centre. I tried to search for what I need, but still could not find the best compromise between the features and the amount of money I have to spend.

Still about language, I feel that my language skill already starts to deteriorate.

Check this interesting list of codenames of almost all known Microsoft products, from e.g. WfW (Snowball) to Dynamic HTML (Trident).

Speaking of languages, recently I found two interesting sites.

Madelman has created WordLeaker, a tool which display hidden information as well as revision logs in Microsoft Word documents. Although seems that it is not compiled in, WordLeaker can also be found in as plug-in in libextractor, a library to extra metadata and similar information from various types...

It was (of course) a malfunction.

Warning: this is a terrible rant!

I’m very bad at playing games. A high-school kid can beat me easily in almost any imaginable types of game. However, I’d like to enjoy the game itself, for the graphics, its gameplay, special effects, sound effects, etc. One way to do this is by watching the game while the player’s role is taken the...

These two movies did not really meet my expectations.

The loudest zealots are usually the non-coders. To them, I am often tempted to ask: what was your contribution? (Shane’s comment in OSNews)

When I show my desktop with real translucency and window shadows, I am often asked how to do that. It’s been ages since KDE is able doing this effect, yet not so many people are aware of it. So here I rehash the instructions in few steps (but remember: YMMV). In short: use KDE 3.4 or higher with the...

Corel has shown it. The last WordPerfect version was 12, and now the new one is not 13, but rather X3. I think it’s awkward to make it as full-Roman XIII, so it’s shortened to X3. Perhaps, also not to be confused with X-Men 3 🙂

Casper Boemann and Thorsten Zachmann have worked together to implement a nice feature: automatic guide lines. This is available in KPresenter and Kivio. The idea is, when you e.g. drag an object to move it, then vertical and horizontal guide lines should appear magically when necessary, thereby maki...

Since everyone seems to have last minute feature for KOffice, I also want to have one. So, here it is:

<cyrilleb> ariya: real man doesn’t live ;p </cyrilleb></ariya>

during commits: Coldplay – Speed of Sound Audioslave – Be Yourself U2 – City Of Blinding Lights Green Day – Holiday Thousand Foot Krutch – Move Nickelback – Photograph

Exactly subjects that I like!

This is long overdue, but finally with the new formula engine (recently integrated and completed by Tomas Mecir as his SoC), the percent operator is supported in KSpread:

The latest December edition of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters includes our publication entitled 1.6-Tb/s (40×40 Gb/s) Transmission Over 44..94 km of SSMF With Adaptive Chromatic Dispersion Compensation.

Now that Gnash is actively developed, making a Qt 4 binding and let it render using Arthur will be a wonderful addition to KDE 4’s Konqueror. Or, perhaps even Plasma. Of course, Konqueror can use the Netscape plug-in version, but accelerated rendering as well as making it available to other apps (ye...

From OSNews: Blastware.org stated that Polaris, OpenSolaris kernel ported to the PowerPC has been built.

Talking to compiler is just like to human being, if you do not understand the dialect then you keep wondering what the other side is trying to say:

Jensen Harris has revealed how the initial design of Microsoft Office 12 user interface has something to do with paper prototyping. Interesting to notice, because creating mock-up using paper prototype has been covered before by Ellen. Perhaps we should do it for the next generation of KOffice?

even when you've paid enough been pulled apart or been held up ’cause every single memory of the good or bad faces of luck don't lose any sleep tonight I'm sure everything will end up alright you may win or lose

What was intended to be a proof-of-concept has become the calculator of choice in the latest Kubuntu Breezy Badger. The next logical step is to let users of other platforms also have a chance to enjoy it.

Good bye, 2005. Welcome to 2006!

In Qt application, outputting printf-like formatted debug message involving QString means using latin1 or utf8 such as:

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