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The U.S. Foreign Service Institute teaches foreign languages to government diplomats and personnel for duties abroad—and its courses are available online, for free. Which means you can access audio, texts, and tests in 41 different languages.
The FSI Language Courses web site isn’t actually maintained by the U.S. government itself, but the materials developed before 1989 [...]

Norman Ramsey at StackOverflow once asked: My group uses Literate Programming for most of our source code—this means that internal documentation is written using LaTeX. We have been using PStricks for fancy technical diagrams of the system, but have recently been recommended to use TikZ. I’ve gathered this information:

TikZ/PGF is new and maintained; PStricks went a [...]

Linear programming is often a favorite topic for both professors and students. The ability to introduce LP using a graphical approach, the relative ease of the solution method, the widespread availability of LP software packages, and the wide range of applications make LP accessible even to students with relatively weak mathematical backgrounds. Additionally, LP provides [...]

Everyone talks about Google and its search methodologies and even its home page design. But whatever you know about Google, if that is not enough then go thru the below attached 60 minutes video presentation by “Marissa Mayer” – Vice President of Search Product.
Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of [...]

TED India Conference held in Infosys Campus, Mysore between 4 – 7’th Nov 2009. There were lot many sessions over here on different subjects. One of them was on 6’th Sense Technology mixing physical world with digital world taken by Pranav Mistry – a well known MIT engineer. He talked about the technology he developed [...]

If you want to get a print copy of only text part of a webpage or without any particular image then you can try Printfriendly web application. Sometimes we need a print copy of a page but because of different ads or huge images running on that page, we ignore getting a print copy idea. [...]

Google is not just a company but now it is also used as a verb. For search operations, we generally use the term “Google it” to ask our friends to perform search for a term. Besides search, there are lot many other initiatives started in Google and here I found one video which shows the [...]

Free file browser Q-Dir makes for a good USB drive app or installed replacement for Windows Explorer for those who do a serious amount of file swapping, or just like to be able to keep multiple folder views open at once.

The app—which installs by default, but can run by itself after renaming it [...]