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The Guitar Hero Robot using NI LabVIEW and FPGA

05.16.08

Check out this YouTube video! Four Texas A&M students built a robot called Slashbot that plays Guitar Hero on the PS3!

Why is this so cool?

I’m a big fan of Guitar Hero!
Slashbot is built using National Instruments products!

I’ve been wanting to get Guitar Hero III for the Wii but have not been able to find [...]

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Fun Stuff, Job Skills & Requirements, LabVIEW & Toolkits, NI Products, National Instruments, Photos/Videos | No Comments » | 61 visits

My Favorite WordPress Plugins

05.15.08

I’m a big fan of WordPress. I started using WordPress three years ago when I setup my first WordPress blog to give family and friends updates about our (my husband and I) wedding here in Shanghai. I signed up for BlueHost and used the Fantastico script installer on the cPanel to install my first Wordpress [...]

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Blogging, Lists, Software & Tools, WordPress, WordPress Plugins | No Comments » | 114 visits, 1 today

The Best Web Hosting Server: Blue Host!

05.13.08

Absolutely Incredible!
I thought 1500 GB of hosting space was a ridiculous amount! That’s 1.5 terabytes! Now BlueHost upgraded their standard hosting package and is offering UNLIMITED hosting space to everyone!

UNLIMITED Hosting Space (NEW!)
UNLIMITED File Transfer (NEW!)
Host UNLIMITED Domains!!!
2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
2000/2002 Front Page Extensions
Free Domain [...]

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Blogging, Software & Tools, Useful Resources, WordPress | 1 Comment » | 59 visits, 1 today

A Rude Invasion by Microsoft

05.12.08

This morning, I opened an HTML file expecting it to open in Maxthon, my default internet browser. Instead, Internet Explorer 7 opened up! I thought I was delirious because I don’t recall ever downloading or installing IE 7. Matter of fact, I don’t even use IE at all! The last I checked several weeks ago, [...]

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Software & Tools | 5 Comments » | 95 visits

Using Categories and Tags in WordPress

05.11.08

Recently, I migrated this blog from the old domain (http://www.blindmansfaith.com/NISH) to the new domain, Shanghai Tech Writer. On top of that, I upgraded the blog from WordPress 2.3 to WordPress 2.5.1. The migration and upgrade for the most part was pretty smooth but there were still a few cleanups I had to do.

I updated all [...]

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Blogging, Design & Layout, Documentation & Help Manuals, Lists, Technical Communication/Writing, WordPress | No Comments » | 95 visits

If Only Technical Writing was This Simple

05.09.08

I got a good laugh out of this one. I can’t say how many times I’ve wanted to do just that in documentation!
At NI, some of the hardest documentation to write are conceptual topics that are highly complex, technical, and mathematical. LabVIEW add-ons like Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit, Digital Filter Design Toolkit, and System Identification [...]

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LabVIEW & Toolkits, NI Products, Technical Communication/Writing | No Comments » | 48 visits

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