As Instant as Google

As always, Google has been trying to make the search experiences more pleasant and user friendly since day one of the search engine development. There were numerous small changes being carried out through out the years. Most changes are hardly noticeable to normal users but the impact on performance and time spent per search are improving drastically. 

When we thought Google Suggest (predicts, suggest & auto complete the keywords as you type) is the best thing Google search can provide us, Google had just shown us an instant streamed search results as you type and almost as fast as you can think. Google Instant is new but it looks, behaves, feels so familiar with the old version. The improved user interface is silk, minimalist and smooth. 

Various UI elements on the Google Instant are fairy consistent. They don't get pushed to bottom as the search interface has a fixed width which I usually hate when dealing with dynamic changing interface. Thumbs up to the UI design team. The streamed results are predicting your input very well in most cases. Google claims that it reduces the total time per search by two to five seconds. What else can be as instant as Google?

乐高

Lego乐高砖块是我小时候最喜欢的玩具之一。大概在我两三岁时(虽然乐高有指定年龄但当时有妈妈看着),已经开始玩乐高。经过妈妈细心的引导下两岁的我已经能依照图表拼出较简单的乐高模型。妈妈也断断续续的买了好几盒小型(比较便宜)的乐高组合。开始时我还需要依赖图表才能把模型组装起来。

伏笔

那天,我旧地重游了。买了你喜欢的调味豆奶,喝着,一边走一边寻觅着过去的迹影。回味着与你一起喝过的芋味珍奶。脚板隔着鞋底隐约地感受着一起走过的冰冷大理石。感觉你隔着空气的体温。回忆着当天的点点滴滴,那套电影、那只小熊、那顿午餐。 这些事情,大概你都忘了吧?忆起了两年前在送你生日卡片上埋下以诗词写的伏笔。可是,我又能怎么样呢?

Megablue的数独(Sudoku)程式

Sudoku by megablue v0.2 screen capture
数独,一个玩法简单却具有非常挑战性的数字游戏。前一阵子UCPRO编程论坛的版主出了一道题来挑战坛友。可惜最终只有我写出了一个完整的数独程式。既然没有挑战者那活动就这样作废了。

旧版本(v0.1)是一个纯文字界面界面的单线程程式。前天我把程式用图像界面重写了(v0.2),以及改良了演算法.

更新: 刚刚W.Jiun给了一些建议。我也觉得界面太小了,所以在界面上做了一些调整。如果下载了v0.2觉得界面太小的话可以试试v0.2a. 除了界面以外基本上是一样的。



Path


From now on, I must further the journey alone. There are some paths that are meant to be walked by yourself where no one could accompany you. No one will be there for you when you fall. I just hope that I wouldn't fall... at least not too hard. Determination is crucial; I must keep myself reminded.