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Friday, November 25, 2011

SUPPORT TO MAKE THE WEB OPEN AND FREE FOR ALL

The U.S. Congress is in view of stopping online piracy. It is called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). The law for sure will not stop the piracy but can give a grim threat to social media and sites like YouTube that gives us  freedom to post and view videos (contributed by users) online. In this case the world wide web will face some new security risks and it will not be as open as it is right now.

That is why companies like Mozilla, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn and other companies wrote a joint letter to appeal to this law.

Click link to view letter content. 

Let us keep our cyberspace this way, stop the censorship.

Participate now by clicking the link below from Mozilla.


Sunday, November 13, 2011

EPSON L100 AND L200: WORLD FIRST PRINTER WITH GENUINE INK TANK

Recently EPSON released the world’s first printer with genuine ink tank; this may be EPSON’s answer to ever growing unauthorized CIS (Continuous Ink System) installers in the market. The technology and the principle of the EPSON printers with ink tanks is just the same with the existing CIS in the market, the only difference is, you don’t have to worry that your warranty will get void.

These Printers are real value for your money; with up to 12,000 pages for black and 6,500 pages for color, it will definitely increase your productivity.

There are 2 models to choose from, the L100 and the L200.

L100 - Inkjet Printer

 *Image courtesy of www.epson.com.ph


L200 – All-In-One Printer

*Image courtesy of www.epson.com.ph

These models are running in 4-colour Ink System (Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow) with Print Speeds of Approx. 27 ppm for Black in Draft Mode and Approx. 15 ppm Color in Draft Mode. EPSON L100 and L200 is covered with 1 year or 15,000 prints, and equipped with Fast Ink Top-up (FIT) technology that lessens ink leaks and print head clogging. Ink Refills are available in individual EPSON Genuine Ink Bottles. For full specification visit the links below:



The package includes User Manuals, USB Cable and Power Cable, 5 EPSON Genuine Ink Bottles (3 Black, 1 Cyan, 1 Magenta, and 1 Yellow). Ink tank caps (for transporting purposes) are also available in the package.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

DateTimePicker Essentials in Visual Basic.NET

DateTimePicker plays essential role in the system development; it is very useful if you need to input a date, time or even selecting a date range in your data base. DateTimePicker control in one way or another is comparable to MonthCalendar Control, these controls both allows you to select a date. 

Like any other controls in Visual Basic there are a lot of methods on how you can manipulate your DateTimePicker. Here are some of the essentials that you may need to know on how to use and control the DateTimePicker.

1.       You can find the DateTimePicker control under Common Controls in the Toolbox.
2.       By default a DateTimePicker Format is LONG. (Refer to the image below). You can change the format by selecting the Format in Properties Windows and change the value. There are 4 formats to choose from, LONG, SHORT, TIME and CUSTOM.


3.       DateTimePicker1 is the Default Name of the control.
4.       In order to change the display font, find CalendarFont in the Properties Window.
5.       The default value of the control is based on system date.
6.       To display the DateTimePicker value in a TextBox you can use the following codes.

a.       SHORT DATE STRING FORMAT
   TextBox1.Text = DateTimePicker1.Value.ToShortDateString

b.      LONG DATE STRING FORMAT
  TextBox1.Text = DateTimePicker1.Value.ToLongDateString

c.       SHORT TIME STRING FORMAT
  TextBox1.Text = DateTimePicker1.Value.ToShortTimeString

d.      LONG TIME STRING FORMAT
  TextBox1.Text = DateTimePicker1.Value.ToLongTimeString

7.       You can also add days, month, and year in your DateTimePicker Value. Below is a sample syntax on how you can add a days.

ADDING DAYS
SYNTAX:
 DateTimePicker.Value.AddDays(Value As Double)
SAMPLE CODE:
DateTimePicker1.Value = DateTimePicker1.Value.AddDays(10)

ADDING MONTHS
SYNTAX:
DateTimePicker.Value.AddDays(Monhts as Integer)
SAMPLE CODE:
DateTimePicker1.Value = DateTimePicker1.Value.AddMOnths(5)


ADDING YEARS
SYNTAX:
DateTimePicker.Value.AddDays(Value as Integer)
SAMPLE CODE:
DateTimePicker1.Value = DateTimePicker1.Value.AddYears(2)


These are the basics of DateTimePicker Control. Feel free to comment and ask more about DateTimePicker Control. Happy Coding.