HOWTO: Free Image Editing tool

I've found a free image editing tool comparable to Adobe Photoshop. Not as user-friendly, but hey, it's free.

Check it out:
http://www.gimp.org/
The GNU Image Manipulation Program

cheers,

Karnaugh Map (K-map)

Here is another tool used to solve k-maps. Again, very useful for checking your work. This isn't an online tool, so you gotta download it and install it. Works great. Supports upto 8 variables. Come on, will you use more than that? Haven't you heard of a state machine...lol

Anyways, here is the link: http://k-map.sourceforge.net/

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Quine-McCluskey Tool

I've come across a great Quine-McCluskey tool that solves any given function to produces a minimal sum for the boolean function. I've tried it upto 5 variables and it works great. Check it out, it is written in PHP and the source is available.

http://www.omnistream.co.uk/qm/

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Fun and Recommended Firefox Extensions

So, I've decided to share with you some Firefox add-ons that I've come across to save me time and help my surfing needs. These can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org/

• Download StatusBar
• ForecastFox
• Gmail Notifier
• Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3

I will soon post more as I come across them

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Increase Performance for your LAN

I've found a great way to increase your bandwidth of your LAN if you are using Windows XP Pro. Unfortunately, this does not work for Windows XP Home.

Make sure your have admin access.
The steps are:

• Start-> Run-> type gpedit.msc
• Expand the [Administrative Templates] branch under [Local Computer Policy]
  
• Expand the [Network] branch
• Highlight [QoS Packet Scheduler]
• Double-click [Limit Reservable Bandwidth]
• Check [Enabled]
• Change [Bandwidth limit %] to 0 %
• Click [Apply] [OK]
• Restart (Reboot)

The effect of this should be immediate, but to be sure, reboot and you will enjoy the full bandwidth of your LAN.

For further info and testimonals, check out this site.

cheers,

verilog online reference

I've found a very good reference for people who work with verilog. Check out this useful reference, in case you ever get stuck:

http://www.sutherland-hdl.com/on-line_ref_guide/vlog_ref_top.html

cheers,

Graduate Studies

For anyone planning for graduate studies, here is something that will help. When submitting your graduate studies application, 1 piece will be your "Letter of Intent", pretty much why you want do do graduate studies, selling yourself to the university of why they should let you in.

Now, you must be asking, what do I write?...Universities don't tell you! But I've a found a university that posts the template of the letter and how you should write it. Now thats more like it, an actual university that cares about the content and not the layout.

Take a look and I hope this help. It definitely helped with my graduate studies application!

http://www.unm.edu/grad/eforms/intentletter.html

-cheers