It is the most important festival of the year in Chinese culture: Spring Festival. And the new cultural event that catches the most eyeballs in China, like it or not, is the Spring Festival Gala from Chinese Central TV (CCTV,
What Is Fuzz About the New Tizen and Ubuntu Phone?
I found quite amused when I saw the following two news article appeared the same day in Ars. Two phones with new Mobile OS debut to the market around the same time. The mobile OS world have been crowded with
What you need to know about Windows 10 free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8
Microsoft finally joined the free OS movement by offering the free upgrade for the new Windows 10 to come (and yes, they decided to skip Windows 9). Well, to be fair, with some catch. Here is the offer detail from
How important is Fourier Transform and why?
If you are reading this post, I assume you have learned or at least heard about Fourier Transform. As a matter of fact, most engineering student should have some background of it. But you might not know exactly how important
The First Man-Made Memristor Can Be Traced Back To 1801
Memristor was first postulated by Leon Chua in 1971 as a missing non-linear passive two-terminal electrical component relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. It was mostly unknown for 37 years until HP reported a man-made memristor in a seminal
T-Mobile Added Unlimited International Calling to 30+ Countries for Whole Family Only Cost $10
T-Mobile has hit the phone service companies with another big announcement . For only $10, you can add unlimited international calls to all your lines (YES, ALL YOUR LINES)! Including mobile-to-landlines and mobile-to-mobile. It is definitely shaking up the industry
How to Instantiate ARM core with SWD in FPGA
SWD (serial wire debug) is a debug interface ARM provided in replacement of the usual JTAG interface. The advantage is obvious: 2 wires needed vs. 4 wires. If you want to instantiate the ARM core in FPGA with SWD interface.
What Accessories You Need For Your MacBook Air
I recently bought a MacBook Air 11 inch for an upgrade from my old Dell laptop. There are several great PC candidates, however I decided to give Mac a try this time. Given that we have purchased several iPhone and
Where should I Self-publish My Book
Publishing a book for yourself has become a much easier task compared with just several decades ago. Pretty much everybody with a computer, a word processor can create his/her own content and convert to some format (ePub, Mobi, PDF, etc)
How to Learn From the Professionals?
There is an old saying in Chinse “工欲善其事,必先利其器”, which means if one want to good at what he is doing, he must first pick and sharpen his tools. This wise advice obviously still hold its value today. Using the right
Which iPhone 6/6 Plus to buy for International Usage?
(Updated 09/30/2014: it has been confirmed that all iPhone6/6 Pluse purchased from Apple retail store (not from carrier stores) are UNLOCKED for international use. For ATT, Tmobile and Verizon version, they are UNLOCKED for US carriers as well. Sprint version
How to copy raw URL for Google search results?
Imagine this scenario: you are looking for something by Google it (many of our modern day research was done this way). After you found a good search result that you liked and you want to share it to your friends
How to Convert Windows 8 to a Complete Chinese Version
Recently, my cousin asked me to help buy a laptop for him from US. Believe or not, the price difference for some electronic items are still big from US to China. For example, the laptop I bought for my cousin
How to fix Firefox that use too much memory
You might find you computer slow down significantly after you use it. Sometimes it happens when you are just browsing the internet. It is pretty common if I check the memory usage and it exceed 1GB used. Chance are your
How to Initialize BRAM with COE file for Xilinx FPGA
Many people have asked me this question recently so I figure it might be worth to write it down to benefit a larger audience. Here are the steps you need to take. Step 1: Create COE file for the data