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I have read many articles on " how to market your computer programs and have applied some of the techniques I got from  the articles. The writers of these articles are always convincing to an extent where someone who owns a software product would imagine of becoming very rich as soon as he/she applies the technique. The bad news is it  does not always work out in some of these ways, at least for someone who doesn't have enough resources to hire marketers. In my previous post, I wrote about developers who give out their products for  free and also, I advised developers to charge something for their products. In this article am stressing that a bit, how about giving out the trial/demo version of the full program for free instead of the giving the full version of the product itself. This method has always been the best. Because you will always go for a program that gives you what you need. If you don't think of buying a license, you will browse the internet day and night l...

Becoming a computer guru simply means doing what your mates can not do on the computer system and not just doing it, but doing it very fast. The only way you could work very fast on a computer is by using command prompt or any other kind of command line program. You can delete a whole file in no time and no one except the smart people like you would know how you did it. Most people shy away from command prompt because they have the impression that commnad prompt is very hard and requires someone to have Jimmy Neutron's brain in order to use it. But, in this post, I am telling you that command prompt isn't as hard as it looks, and to clear my point on that we are going to be running some cammands using a windows built-in tool known as Powershell. Note: Powershell can be found on computers with Microsoft Windows 7 and higher. To start, go to start menu, in the search box, type "Powershell" and Windows Powershell will be filtered out. Right click on it and click Pin To...

Implementing speech technology into your program is extremely easy, but, our aim in this  post is to implement it in such a way that it would be reusable. The code am about to share here is a part of my Emris class library project that I built so that I do not re-write codes I have already writen before when I need them. Just like the project name which is named after the young War-Lock's ancient name in the Movie  "Merlin"  implies, the class library is a collection of magical classes that does all kinds of things, one of which is the one we are talking about. The Speech class. The class contains 3 private member variables and 1 public SpeechSynthesizer instance variable which are:         private int speechRate;         private string speechString;         private bool IsAsync=false;         public SpeechSynthesizer ss; 3 Public properties which is used to get and set values to the p...

I have always loved Microsoft Operating Systems because they are being used all over the world by different kinds of people and as a software developer, that means a lot to me for I get to create programs that target a wide range of users across the world. Apart from that, the OS seems to be the primary OS in my country "Nigeria" and people offer tutorials and training based on this Operating System. Most people in my country do not even know that there are other OS apart from Windows. The first time I booted my Linux Kali in a Cyber Cafe, people were amazed and asking silly questions that made me very uncomfortable. They are not to be blamed because Windows has become part of our lives. Everything was good for me with Windows XP and when Windows 7 was released, I was very happy with it because it has almost everything I need for my work. I had an android phone from HTC, I love browsing the web with it, but when I need to do a hardcore work, I consult my Windows 7. Then my W...

Looking at the huge number of free software in the internet today, one would think that programming a software is one of the easiest thing to do, OK, even if it is the easiest thing to do, is learning to write program an easy thing to do? If you ask me, I would say NO. The fact is that the cost of becoming a software developer is high. If you decide to take a programming course, you pay and if you decide to teach yourself, you buy a computer, books, pay for internet service in the cafe or get a data plan from an ISP. Which ever way you choose to pursue a career in programming, the cost of becoming a programmer is still high. And be rest assured that having these materials (I mean the books and computers) is still not a guarantee that you will become a coder. You need to love it, you need enough time and the brain too to become a programmer. If the cost of becoming a programmer is as expensive as this, why are there so many free software out there? A question I ask myself every ...