5 Awesome Google Spreadsheet Formatting Tricks

Tip #1:
Line Break within Cell
How-to:
To force a line break (a.k.a. carriage return or hard return) within a cell, use:
Control + Enter
or
Alt + Enter
Example:

Technology Tips for Teachers

As the world evolves, so does every aspect of our lives. Technology has taken the front seat in just about every facet of modern life – from paying the bills and communicating with one another, to workplace activities and shopping – everything has changed thanks to advances in technology.
The same goes for education, which has changed significantly thanks to the Internet and everything else associated with it. Technology now has a place in every classroom and is no longer simply reserved for computer class. Teachers of every subject and on every level, from primary school to college, are using technology in their classrooms.
Here are some great sites that teachers can use in order to better integrate technology into the classroom and help their students benefit from having all of these tools and technologies at their disposal.

25 More Tech Tips and Tricks

In my Times column Thursday, I mentioned that there’s no core curriculum for technology. Nobody teaches you the basics. You just pick stuff up as you go along.

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As a result, everybody, even experts, winds up with knowledge holes—things everybody thinks everybody else knows about the basics of consumer electronics.

When I started writing down the ones I figured everybody should know, my column was twice as long as it’s supposed to be. But hey—on the Web, nobody can hear you exceed your word count. I lopped out half of them and saved them for this e-newsletter.

Think of it as “Today’s Pogue Column (Cont’d).”

Map a Folder to a Drive Letter in Windows

For example, you could use this command to map the Outlook folder stored at C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook to a drive letter like Z.
Whenever you click on the Z drive in My Computer, you would actually be redirected to the Outlook folder! This can be very useful in many different situations, especially when working with paths that are longer than 256 characters.
So what’s the problem with using the SUBST command? It’s not persistent! That means when you restart the computer, your drive is gone. You have to create it again and you can’t have any startup

A Short History of Windows XP

Windows XP (codenamed Whistler)^[5] is a personal computer operating system that was produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and generally released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.

Android Application Programming with OpenCV Part-3

Android Application Programming With Open CV Part-2

Android Application Programming With Open CV Part-2

Building the OpenCV samples with Eclipse

Building and running a few sample applications is a good way to test that OpenCV is correctly set up. At the same time, we can practice using Eclipse.

Beginning Android 3D Game Development Part-2

LogCat Window

At the bottom of the Eclipse IDE there are by default a few rectangular windows. One of the more

important ones is called the LogCat window, and this window displays debug and error messages

that are directly coming from a program that is running on the Android device that is attached to your

computer via a USB cable 

Unity 2D Game Development Part-1

Unity 2D Game Development Part-1

Importing 3D Models and Animations

In this chapter, we prepare the assets to build up our game prototype, starting with the process of exporting 3D models from Maya, our 3D editor of choice, into Unity. We also take care of correctly setting up the imported models and animations in Unity Inspector once they get imported.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

·         ffSetting up a scene in Maya

·         ffUsing groups to rotate FBX files

·         ffExporting FBX files from Maya

·         ffConfiguring imported FBX files in Unity

·         ffExporting animations

·         ffConfiguring imported animations in Unity Inspector

Android Application Programming with OpenCV Part-1

Android Application Programming with OpenCV Part-1

Setting Up OpenCV

This chapter is a quick guide for setting up a development environment for Android and OpenCV. We will also look at the OpenCV sample applications, documentation, and community.

By the end of this chapter, our development environment will include the following components:

                        Java Development Kit (JDK) 6: It includes tools for Java programming.

                        Cygwin 1.7 or greater (Windows only): It is a compatibility layer that provides Unix-like programming tools on Windows.

                        Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) r21.0.1 or greater: It includes tools for programming Android apps in Java.