This is a very kewl gui toolkit for J2se, .NET, J2me . Very neat and neat indeed. Zaval Light-Weght - Visual Component Library It is available under GPL and comercial license.. Need to try using it with a coupla tools I have in mind. I know that there are zillions of open-source utilities out there, but I am looking for ideas for applications and utilities that you would liket o use at home/work. ...
Been offline for quite a few days now!! Work, work work!!! Loads of it!! and I am luvin’ it! Btw, my latest acquisition in my digital brigade is my new (well not so!) Delll Axim X3 handheld!! Check out these sites for kewl development utils for the pocket pc http://mifki.ru/pocketgcc/index.html http://mifki.ru/pcsharp/index.html
Wired 12.11: How I Learned to Love Larry This article by the former CEO of RIAA is quite intriguing. In today’s world of “digital creativity”, are the copyright laws really as relevant as in yester-years? Does copyright laws curb creativity or are they in place for safegaurding the poor content creator from being cheated out of their pride possessions by 12-year-old, computer weilding school kids?! Check out these links too ...
Google Desktop Search Download Check it out!!! I love thee Google, “Lord of Search”!! Really really neat way to access information. Very quick, a little scary considering that Google can go on to become the next MS! We the users of technology (particularly developers, testers etc) are going to have more exiciting times!! Google Desktop is a like have the Google search engine installed for searching your system. it indexes your system, and ofcourse it currently supports only Microsoft products, but hope that a few of the open source software liek thunderbird and firefox are also supported soon. ...
Wired News: Plasma Beam Eyed in Space Travel Now that is what I can advancement in technology!!! Way to go prof Winglee .. let’s get ourselves moving to other galaxies … maybe in my lifetime!!!
Well, are you really bored with life and have a net connection, but none of the sites do anything for you?!! Well, here is one nice site that caught my attention when I was googling (= verb. searching aimlessly on google with anything that comes to your mind!) Neat interface and no “signup with us if you want to use” thingy, gives good trivia and lots of news about the Indian job scene (if you would care to look at it!) ...
daily dose of imagery is a very nice site .. wonderful site with great pics that are inspiring. Check it out every single day
ultimate boot cd Check out this link!! Really useful for those like me who invariably end up doing something to their OS that they have to reimage their pc atleast once in two months!! I have CD writer and I back up most of my work, so I get to fiddle with whatever, but my data is safe!!!
As I have mentioned earlier, I have recently moved to a new team at office. This weekend, we went on a team outing to Mahabalipuram. Well, if you are in India and happen to visit Tamil Nadu, do not, and I say again, DO NOT forget to make a trip to Sterling Resorts ( and no, I didn’t take money from them to say this ) They have this kewl package to offer. They take you on a boat ride, into the sea (3/4) kilometers and, they throw (not literally) you into the water. Actually,it is more like they help you into the water. You get to hold on to your dear life at the end of a rope! It is great fun to swim in the sea, with nothingness for about 70/80 feet below you. It scares the shit out of you, if you don’t know how to swim i.e! ...
Had to dump Frequency! :( No support for titles! Based on the old Blogger 1.0 API and free only for 15 days!!. Desperately in need of another client based interface, after moving to opera. It is such a pain, to browse in one environment and having to open IR just for blogging. I think I should write a client myself based on the atom API. Now that I have a VC environment with me, I might just do that! If at anyone reads this blog, please do get in touch with me if you are interested in write a small VC++ application that will sit on the taskbar, and will let you post to blogger. ...