Remember the old good time with Mortal Kombat? Well, look no more! Why don’t you try OpenMortal?

OK, finally I got my Schrödinger’s Cat T-shirt (has nothing to do with this guy’s encyclopedia). Unless you live under the rock, you would know what this shirt has different statement (about the life of the cat) on its front and back side. And if you don’t live under the rock, you might want to know...

If you often compose mails with different languages and use spell checker quite often, GMail cleverly does not ask you in which language the mail is written, nor you need to specify one. You write in English, then English spell checker is used. You write in German, then German spell checker is used....

About ten months ago, I played around with the idea of pulsating effect in QToolTip. Basically, the background color is changed quickly to series of some colors. See this Flash animation. The actual effect is of course much smoother than what is shown in this Flash demo.

I haven’t read How to Become CEO yet, but looking at the excerpt, something is very interesting indeed:

Yes, Tom Cruise wants to catch up with the (amazing) 3.x series of KDE 😛

OK, Roberto, you also let me waste my time…

I got my Summer-of-Code‘s mentor version of the long-awaited T-shirt. Thanks, Google!

Ctrl+G is a very well-known shortcut by Yahoo! Messenger users. It means buzz your contact. Essentially, the other side will get “Buzz!” message, along with sound effect (if enabled) and the shaking of the chat window. The last part is very interesting and obviously used to steal the attention. It i...

If you try to find the dimension and position of the combobox arrow button, one of your chance is by using subControlRect of the style in use. Unfortunately, this can not work in Plastique style because this style does not return a correct QRect associated with the arrow’s geometry, as evidence from...

According to Google Analytics, visitors to my blog are mostly from Europe:

Yay! I’ve got my copy of Practical Qt.

Beware of the aliens, as they may send viruses: “…scientists searching the heavens for signals from extra-terrestrial civilisations are putting Earth’s security at risk…”

A young English professor opened his first lecture for freshmen with a question, “Could anyone give an example of a sentence using the word learn, please?”

N24 aired an interesting documentary film on Tenerife accident between two 747s, considered one of the biggest pre-9/11 aircraft disaster. Detailed information, including released reports and reconstructed illustrations are also available from Project Tenerife website.

Rick Downes is against spamming. Yet he was arrested because the police suspected that he spams people with advertisement of pharmaceutical products.

After too long working on a prototype board, I had an idea to invent this question.

From Bjarne Stroustrup’s C++ FAQ:

Do they have it in pink?

WordPerfect Office, since version 9, has a very nice timesaving feature called RealTime Preview. When choosing specific font from the dropdown list, the selected text is already reformatted and displayed using that font. This applies also with other types of formatting. And because the update is ins...

If your C program needs to extract files from a ZIP-compressed package, using minizip (and zlib) is a fast and easy solution. Not to pollute planetkde (no pun intended here :-), a simple function to extract one file from a ZIP and write it to the specified output file is shown in this simple unzip e...

Some random goodies, welcoming the weekend.

This is probably not of much interest for normal users.

I’d like to add one important point to Aaron’s list to good practices in open source software: extensive tests. Sure, manually testing the program is good, but since open-source software is done mostly by volunteers, tests that run by themselves are of great help. In the past, I have witnessed so ma...

I wonder whether novice Windows users would get panic if you give them this link: http://www.acme.com/notexist. Can possibly some Ajax guru make it more scary?

When for the first time I learned C++, I used to practise guessing what goes wrong when the compiler issues errors. Basically, I jumped to the line where the error is spotted and, without reading further error message, tried to deduce the mistake just by looking at the code. I found that this is qui...

Whoever behind it, this kdebugs.blogspot.com is cool.

Normally, amazing fighting scenes are what you expect from Jet Li’s movies. That also what I had mind when I inserted Unleashed into my DVD player. But I was wrong. This European-produced movie offered a good and strong (and believable) story, and most important is that it was not packed with unnece...

This is another joke.

My fourth autumn so far…