English pronunciation studies the techniques of uttering words, making it one most challenging subjects and considered a formality. By mastering proper pronunciation, there will be no miscommunication when speaking with others or native speakers. Learning from speaker creates benchmark for appropriately pronouncing words. Unfortunately, is overpriced impractical. Therefore, this study developed...

Desktop Grids take their place in the e-Science distributed computing infrastructure scaling into the millions of PCs. Desktop-Grids collect CPU cycles from PCs contributed by donors, by volunteers who are willing to support science and research. The Green key advantage of Desktop-Grids over service Grids and data centers based on clusters of servers is the minimal heat density. Compute Cluster...

In this paper we argue against viewing computer desktop security solely as a technical issue. Instead, we propose a perspective that combines three related dimensions: technical infrastructure, usability and user engagement. In this light, we suggest that a viable approach to desktop security should embrace these three key dimensions of the end-user context. An example desktop application is de...

Existing desktop search applications, trying to keep up with the rapidly increasing storage capacities of our hard disks, offer an incomplete solution for the information retrieval. In this paper we describe our desktop search prototype, which enhances conventional full-text search with semantics and ranking modules. In this prototype we extract and store activity-based metadata explicitly as R...

Several recent initiatives aim to provide a Memex-inspired semantic desktop that would integrate with or replace our current physical and electronic desktop. For these semantic desktop initiatives to succeed, we need to consider how people organise their work and use their desktop. If we do not consider this existing work, the semantic desktop might very well suffer from the low adoption rate t...

This paper discusses the emerging trend of Personal Desktop Searching utilities on desktop computers, and how the information cached and stored with these systems can be retrieved and analysed, even after the original document has been removed. Focusing on the free Google Desktop application, this paper first analyses how the program operates, the processes involved, files created and altered, ...

Augmented reality (AR) technology is an intuitive approach in the manufacturing domain. Meanwhile, the use of the technology has been limited until now because AR applications often require special devices, and such systems tend to be expensive generally. In this paper, we propose an AR approach for the 3DUI contest. The highlight of our solution is the deployment of virtual desktop or 3D deskt...