The objective of research presented in this paper was to investigate if the Google App Engine cloud service may be used for free of charge execution of parameter study problems. Based on the provided Task Queue API, a simple and extensible framework implementing the master-worker model has been developed, which enables usage of the App Engine application servers as computational nodes as well as monitoring the task execution

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PrePrint: How to Use Google App Engine for Free Computing

The objective of research presented in this paper was to investigate if the Google App Engine cloud service may be used for free of charge execution of parameter study problems. Based on the provided Task Queue API, a simple and extensible framework implementing the master-worker model has been developed, which enables usage of the App Engine application servers as computational nodes as well as monitoring the task execution. The results of the feasibility study are presented and discussed, followed by the comparison with free cloud offering from Amazon EC2.

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PrePrint: How to Use Google App Engine for Free Computing

We propose an architectural framework for building a wide variety of 3D virtual world applications. The applications consist of entities to which arbitrary functionality is added in components with custom data and associated code

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PrePrint: An Entity-Component Model for Extensible Virtual Worlds

Many people who have been using Windows 7 for awhile might be surprised to learn that there is a not very well known secret right-click feature that can be used for all sorts of purposes. To see how the “secret” trick works, bring up any file manager, for this example, we’ll use Windows Explorer .

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Take Advantage of Window 7′s “Secret” Right-Click Feature

Sometimes it seems that Microsoft assigns a team of software engineers to take a look at every single aspect of their Windows operating team between versions, and then tells them to make suggestions as to what might make their part cooler; how else to explain the update to the simple clock in Windows 7? In its normal default status, the clock is pretty simple, it’s just what we’ve all come to expect with the clock on our computer; in Windows 7, it looks like this: Then, when you click on it, you get this: But clicking on Change date and time settings… brings up this popup menu: Under the Date and Time tab, are buttons for allowing you to change your date and time, as well as your time zone; nothing new here.

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Use Windows 7 Advanced Clock Features