January 13th, 2006

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Optical Mouse-phone for Skype

There’s a new concept mouse from Sony — VN-CX1 is a USB optical mouse-phone compatible with Skype which combines phone and mouse in one. I really like the idea and it looks stylish too. I just think it’s better if it is wireless or bluetooth-enabled, not wired. When there’s a call in Skype you simply [...]

Visual Guide to MyODBC in VS.NET 2005

In this visual guide I’m going to show how you can use MyODBC in .NET 2005. It’s rather sneaky because when you install MyODBC it is not readily available in the data source option after installation. You have to create a connection string first in order to make use of MyODBC. I have tested this [...]

MyODBC Works!

Note for my thesis groupmates – After hours of testing I finally got MyODBC to work… *Phew* I think I’m just an idiot for not discovering this tool earlier. This article on how ODBC access MySQL in .NET made the concept clearer to me. I thought using MySQL in Visual Studio 2005 would require hand-coding [...]