Java is an application environment (like, in a way, .NET, Perl, PHP, etc.) in which a lot of cool programs like Limewire and Azureus and some useful programs like Eclipse and Netbeans are written.
Java is usually included with Macintosh. For Windows, here’s an overview of how to install Java.
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Here’s a neat little application that makes a picture of your mouse movements as you use your computer. It’s sort of hokey, but I guess you could use it to track how people use your website.
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Miro is a free and open source podcast viewer for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Here’s a run-through of the installation process for Windows so you know what to expect before you start.
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The Tarangana blog has a great post about the top 10 Twitter clients for Windows.
Just about all are free, and many are open-source, too.
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WordPress 2.9 is out and it has a lot of new features to make using WordPress easier. 1. Global undo/trash 2. Image editor 3. Batch plugin updating 4. Easier video embedding It also has 4 under-the-hood features that make blogging better with WordPress: 1. Canonical URLs 2. Automatic database optimization 3. Comment metadata 4. Faster [...]
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The upcoming WordPress 2.9 release has a lot of new features. Here are 10 that may make your life easier: Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete) Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client rel=’canonical’ for singular pages Scroll back to the same location after saving a [...]
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Version 0.47 of the open-source vector drawing program, Inkscape, has been released. If you’re not already familiar with Inkscape, it’s comparable to Corel Draw, Xara, or Adobe Illustrator. It has fewer features than some of those programs, but also a few that they don’t. Bitmap-based drawing programs save a line as a collection of square [...]
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Dreamhost recently (within the last few months) released a remote API to manipulate accounts and get account information. They’re holding a contest for the best apps using the API. Digitivity.org presents Dreamvue, the Desktop Dreamhost Management App. Click the picture for more info.
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This month’s New Yorker cover was drawn by artist Jorge Colombo while standing outside the wax museum in Times Square. He used an iPhone application called Brushes. There’s a video on the New Yorker site which shows how he did it. The video is created by another Brushes application called Brushes Viewer, which converts the [...]
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Jonathon Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, blogs that Sun is planning to launch a store for Java applications on the lines of Apple’s iPhone app store. Well, he doesn’t mention the iPhone store, but that’s what everybody thinks of in comparison. Since Apple’s iPhone sales only number in the millions (21 million), while just the [...]
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