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Space invaders can help you teach Excel
White Paper If your students get confused when the cursor changes its shape and behavior in Excel, our space cruising cursors can help. This download includes five icons, in addition to explanations of what each type of... [03 Jul 2008]
Swing Hacks: Create a Color Eyedropper
White Paper The problem is that one doesn't get mouse events once the cursor leaves the JFrame. Most paint tools give an eyedropper, but the author has never seen a Java program do it. Getting a screen pixel requires native access,... [17 Oct 2007]
Subclassing & Hooking With Visual Basic: Introduction
White Paper These include messages to repaint the button in its depressed state, notification messages to inform other objects of the button's change in state, messages to determine the state of the mouse cursor, as well as others. [17 Oct 2007]
Ask revamps its search site
News The new site lets users listen to music clips by clicking on the song title, as well as the ability to enlarge images by rolling the cursor over the thumbnail. Ask now features a new design and re-engineering, with a... [05 Jun 2007]
Database Query Processing Using Finite Cursor Machines
White Paper This paper introduces a new abstract model of database query processing, finite cursor machines that incorporates certain data streaming aspects. The model describes quite faithfully what happens in so-called "One-pass"... [31 May 2007]
Motion-sensing tech gives keyboards the wobbles
News This could mean moving the cursor, viewing a map, surfing the internet or even turning the pages of a digital book. BT is trialling a motion-sensing technology for use with mobile devices such as tablet PCs and laptops... [30 Apr 2007]
Microsoft patches hasty patch
News Microsoft is set to today push out a fix to repair problems caused by last week's emergency cursor flaw patch. The fix will be delivered as a "high priority" update alongside Microsoft's regular security updates,... [10 Apr 2007]
Microsoft in a fix over cursor patch
News Microsoft consciously released the cursor flaw patch despite the compatibility problem, Mike Reavey, a Microsoft Security Response Center staffer, wrote on a corporate blog. The cursor vulnerability is... [05 Apr 2007]
Microsoft to rush out cursor flaw fix
News Microsoft issued an advisory on the animated cursor flaw on Thursday and by Friday malicious code that took advantage of the hole was circulating. Microsoft said it is planning to make available this week a patch for a... [02 Apr 2007]
Cursor In, Cursor Out
White Paper A ref cursor is a reference to a result set that resides in server memory. When a ref cursor is opened, no data is initially returned to the client. Instead, the address where the data resides is passed... [11 Oct 2006]
Optimize Result Set Retrieval Using ODP.NET and Ref Cursors
White Paper There are several ways to return query results from an Oracle database to a client application, using Oracle Data Provider for .NET; one of the most powerful, flexible, and scalable methods is to use ref cursor. [11 Oct 2006]
Amazon swings into the map market
News It also shows photos of locations corresponding to points on the map clicked with the cursor. Amazon.com is merging photographs and maps in a new location-based search service that will allow users to take virtual tours... [16 Aug 2005]
Updated: The mystery of the FT's invisible 'link spam'
News Users hovering their cursor about a centimetre below a list of 'Partner sites' - on the left-hand side of the page - will detect a link to Moneysupermarket.com which they are unable to see on the page. [13 Jun 2005]
Tech brain implant reads man's mind
News The impulses, transmitted by 100 1mm long electrodes implanted in his brain, are converted into on-screen cursor movements that enable the 25-year-old to play computer games and open email. The on-screen... [01 Apr 2005]
Contrasting the ADO.NET DataReader and DataSet
White Paper It can remain connected to the underlying database while traversing a forward only rowset or it can retrieve a rowset into a client-side, in-memory cursor and disconnect itself from the database. The ADO 2.x recordset... [06 Jan 2005]