Will the Metro user interface work on the Dektop?

Two days ago Windows 8 Release Preview was released to the public, while not being the final release of Windows 8, it is probably quite close. You can download the ISO files from here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso If you like me, had problems finding the key for it (it was hidden on the FAQ page), here is […]

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ColourSearch – a simple image search engine

A few weeks I randomly got interested in how you match images with other images. Having a very limited background in computer graphics I started reading some research papers on how to match images. One strategy that seemed to work pretty well for most people was a histogram based comparison. Given two histograms it is […]

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Comparing every version of Internet Explorer

A few weeks ago I posted a video where Windows was upgraded all the way from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7. This week I found a video of a guy who compared all versions of Internet Explorer, from version 1 to the recently released version 9. Quite hillarious to see that IE5 actually scored better […]

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Thoughts on the Nokia / Windows Phone 7 deal

For the last week the news that Nokia has chosen Windows Phone 7 as their main operating system for all their new smart phones has been all over the news. A lot of people are very upset and say that Nokia should have gone with Android instead, or that they should have invested more in […]

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Welcome to Source Code Bean!

So I thought I should introduce myself to my readers. My name is Peter Moberg and I am a Software Engineer from Sweden. I took my masters in computer science at Chalmers University of Technology in the spring of 2007. In this blog I intend to post observations I do in my work and also […]

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