Matlab script for sending notification emails

There are so many times that we need to run our Matlab scripts for a very long time. They could take hours or up to days.
Of course , we will never sit down and look at them during this whole period of time. We normally let them run on their own and go out for shopping, especially if your code is running on a server or on a remote computer.

However, many times that we feel insecure, worrying whether our codes are still running normally or dead already. Are there any errors arise? How much are the current progresses? Are they finished already? This is where this little script comes in handy.

NotifyMe script for Matlab let us send notification emails right from our Matlab code to your (or any other) mailbox.

Very simple to use. You can implement them to alert you in any situations you want. If you have a smartphone with a push email service, this script will let you follow your program in a real time, from anywhere with Internet access.

Download here: NotifyMe

US Censorship on the Internet

At the time of this writing (16 November 2011), US Congress is trying to pass their new laws which could threaten the entire Internet. Those laws are the PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It’s a very big disappointment of mine to see the US government, which should stand as a model of liberalism, to think they can stop the online piracies and promoting entertainment industries by taking control over the internet. The piracy-related website and their users can always finding many workarounds to avoid this kind of action. However, using this act, the government and many related sectors could easily shutdown many public service that they feel not comfortable with, or could even use it to shutdown their competitors’ business. This kind of law will just destroy may good services nowadays and return everything in the Internet back to the dark, uncontrolled sources.

Sadly to see the US government going to make the same mistake as some under-developed countries.

For more interesting information, visit the following sites:

http://americancensorship.org/

http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet_d/

http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/?WT.mc_ID=sopa-tw

This post dedicates to the liberalism, free speech, democracy, and the future of the technology.

Online photo editor, Pixlr

If you sometimes need a photo editor to fix and improve your photos, but you don’t have one. The famed Adobe Photoshop is too heavy (and too expansive, of course!). There are many good free and light weight photo editors to use as an alternative. For example, Paint.net is a very light, free , easy-to-use photo editor. Gimp, well known among Linux users, provides rich features, full-function editors, yet quite hard to use for beginners.

However, if you don’t feel comfortable to download and install these software on your computer, you might consider this online photo editor. The Pixlr is a online photo editor which provide a full-function, easy-to-use, and Photoshop-like photo editing experience. The great thing about this one is that it’s really similar to Photoshop, which made me, as well as any other Photoshop users, to start working with it right away.

It can open images from your computer or open directly from URLs. It can also save images onto your computer or directly save and share images to various online albums.

http://pixlr.com/editor/

How to write equations in WordPress

This is a short notice on how to write equation into WordPress post.

One can easily write equation into WordPress by using LaTeX syntax and quote is using $latex and $ sign

A little guide to Reference Manager application

No one can say that they never use PDF files nowadays. It’s fast, easier, and reliable file format for storing any documents. I myself also need to read lots of PDFs research papers. At first it seems much easier than go to library and look for some books. However, when all the PDF files came together in your computer, a nightmare begins! Now all these PDFs are all over your computer that you have to look for it everywhere even in the deepest corner (err.. actually folder) of your computer. It’s now take a lot of effort just to find which PDF contains the content you’re looking for, not even think about writing the bibliography! You may try to manage them into order manually, but it’ll surely turn into a painful experience. When it came to this, a good Reference Manager application can save your life ( and lots of time, of course).

The Design of Low-area 32-bit AES Encryption/Decryption System on FPGA

The Design of Low-area 32-bit AES Encryption/Decryption System on FPGA

Author: Wattanit Hortrakool, AAI AlHarbiy, Ji Song, Xiao-Yang Ji, Yu-Ou Jiang
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Sheffield

This work is a part of my coursework. It’s unpublished yet and post here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Fix Windows Gadget not working, Skype can’t play game, Active X not working, MOBIpocket Creator not working

As stated in the topic’s header, this blog suggest how to fix many problems many Windows users face.

Image Pyramid

What is the Image Pyramid? Of course it has nothing to do with the ancient  Egypt. Image Pyramid-formally called “pyramid representation of image”- is a image and signal processing technique, to represent a single image using a set of cascading images. Image pyramid provides many useful properties for many application, such as noise reduction, image analysis, image enhancement, etc.

£10 from Potato Chips

This blog is an almost meaningless blog. I wrote this entry just to remind me for my first cash prize I’ve ever win!

Normally I have a chance to win several rewards before this time. But this is the first time that the reward is, instead of some goods or product, a money. It’s the reward from the Walker Rainy Day campaign. Walker is the most popular potato chips brand in UK, just like Lays in Thailand. This event ask us to ‘predict’ the time and location that the rain might fall, and got £10 for correct prediction. I randomly chose some grid only once, and with that grid I won!

I know that £10 is that big reward to be surprised, but as least I know that I can win some reward too.

Connect HTC Desire for Developing and Debugging with Android SDK

Not long ago I just bought my new phone, HTC Desire – a very powerful android phone. And also not long ago I started learning on Android platform programming. I since then, I never try to run my application on my phone before.

Recently, I just want to see my program run on my phone. According to the Android Developer website ,if you using Eclipse IDE with Android Development Tools (ADT), what you need to do is;

1. Declare your application as “debuggable” in your Android Manifest.
Change “Debuggable“ to true in Manifest ( Either in Application tab or adding android:debuggable="true" to            the <application> element in AndroidManifest.xml )

2. Turn on “USB Debugging” on your device.
On the device, go to the home screen, press MENU, select Applications > Development, then enable USB                   debugging.

3. Make sure that you system have appropriate driver.

For the last step, they are quite tricky. The description is as follows: