In this February, Microsoft pushed forward their amazing motion sensor from entertainment to bigger world, the commercial and unlimited interactivity, Kinect for Windows!

But you may think about a question: “Is my PC good enough to start development application with Kinect for Windows?”

The good PC for Kinect for Windows

Microsoft described these minimum requirement in their Kinect for Windows website:

Hardware requirements

• 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• Dual-core 2.66 GHz or faster processor
• Dedicated USB 2.0 bus
• 2 GB RAM

OS Requirements

• Requires Windows 7 or Windows Embedded Standard 7

You can get Kinect SDK here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/overview.aspx

and also walkthrough these getting start tutorial to get familiar with your Kinect development environment here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/resources.aspx

Enjoy your development with the amazing motion sensor from Microsoft!

Sure Apple should provide a guideline for everyone who need to publish their content to iBookStore, especially via iBook Author. So please take a look on the resource below to get faster to answer.

• iBook Author: Publishing and distribution FAQ
• Frequently Asked Questions: Book Publisher
• iBook: Frequently Asked Question

If you found some problem when you are publishing your book to iBookStore with iBook Author. Feel free to share below.

Enjoy reading!

From – Adobe Reader Blog

How can I switch to express edition?

That is easy. when your trial period was end, you will be notified in ColdFusion Builder’s trial screen. There are 2 options to choose:

• Purchase ColdFusion:
  Click Buy Now button to purchase license.
  
• Continue using the Express Edition:
  Exit the screen by closing it. After you close the screen, ColdFusion Builder automatically switches to Express Edition, the light weight free version of the tool.

Which feature can you still use it?

Except the pop up that will warn you are going to use the feature that need to purchase the full version first, you will be able to use the feature below:

Where to go from here?

Adobe give you the new chance to continue using Adobe ColdFusion Builder for free. But if you would like to use better feature, you have to make decision to purchase the full version. (As you can see, a lot of good features are all in the full version )

From – CFDocyard

Where is the problem?

The problem comes from the default character of decimalSeparatorTo is “.” and when you need to format your number, you set thousandsSeparatorTo to “.”. This is the point. You have to make these 2 properties different. If you don’t the formatter will not convert your number to expected result, it will error, and tell you in error property as “Invalid format”.

<!-- Formatter will not format variable for you. If your thousandsSeparatorTo
is same as decimalSeparatorTo (default is '.') -->

<mx:NumberFormatter id="formatter"
thousandsSeparatorTo="."
useThousandsSeparator="true"/>

How to solve?

It is easy. You just need to set decimalSeparatorTo property different from thousandsSeparatorTo property. After that, you will serve you as you expected.  You can see the full version of screen cast for this article below.

<!-- Make 'thousandsSeparatorTo' and 'decimalSeparatorTo' different
to solve the problem -->

<mx:NumberFormatter id="formatter"
thousandsSeparatorTo="."
decimalSeparatorTo=".."
useThousandsSeparator="true"/>

Where to go from here?

Actually you will found that Adobe Flex SDK provides many useful tools for your application development while you are learning to use it. NumberFormatter and CurrencyFormatter is just an example. There is also DateFormatter, PhoneFormatter, and ZipCodeFormatter in the SDK, waiting for your need.

Faster

Do you remember the time while Google Maps loaded each “square” to render on the map? If yes, it is in history now. The latest  version represents the new solution to show you the map, Vector, which is “draw” the map from data it got from server. Yes, it is. Your map will be draw dynamically . The application just exchange data in smaller size and what you got is more faster Google Maps.

3D Map Interaction

Google Maps use vector solution to render everything dynamically. So it includes every possibility to represent the object in the map, included with 3D building model! You can also tilting, rotating, smooth zooming, and using compass mode (3D building still be added for the city around the world but you can check the list of those cities here)

Vector and 3D building will be at your device

Offline reliability

Mobile internet connection is not 100% reliable. Even previous design of Google Maps application is for the freshest information on your map. But often you will found a blank map with a blue dot (represent your location) while you are standing in subway. The new version of Google Maps solved this with cache vector data into the application. So map can be redrawn again without internet connection, also applied to offline re-routing.

Where to go from here

So there’s no reason to stay around with your old Google Map application on your phone. I suggest you to go to Android Market and update it as soon as possible. After that, enjoy your new map, on your device, on your world.

From – Google Maps for Mobile

The problem comes from Google Chrome browser, it bundled their own Flash Player (version 10.1) itself. So even you just done completely new installation of Flash Player. It wouldn’t work.

So how to solve this problem? If you want to use Google Chrome as your primary browser to test this latest Flash Player. Please follow the instruction in this video after break.

Hope this help you, cheer