Jumping Steve is an iTunes visualizer plugin (PPC Macs only) that shows a little Steve Jobs rocking out to our music. We can also toggle it to feature a Steve Jobs iPod silhouette that will... rock out to our music. >>

I'm infected by Blog.Worm ... get yourself too infected by Blog.Worm... and help it to spread!! ;) >>

Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo! presentation by Michael J. Radwin, reveals the secrets of how Yahoo gets maximum performance out of minimal hardware by tweaking configuration directives and hacking the source code. Radwin cover topics such as reducing bandwidth costs, extensible logfile format and rotation schemes, dumping core gracefully, and how to avoid the dreaded MaxClients, Max/MinSpareServers, StartServers configuration nightmare. Very Intersting and Useful Presentation. >>

An recent article from Wired discusses about Who is the star? it's Jobs or Gates. It explains Gates is the cutthroat capitalist. A genius maybe, but one more interested in maximizing profits than perfecting technology. He's the ultimate vengeful nerd. Ostracized at school, he gets the last laugh by bleeding us all dry.

On the other hand, Jobs has never seemed much concerned with business, though he's been very successful at it of late. Instead, Jobs has been portrayed as a man of art and culture. He's an aesthete, an artist; driven to make a dent in the universe. Until recently, Bill Gates has been viewed as the villain of the tech world, while his archrival, Steve Jobs, enjoys an almost saintly reputation. >>

Opera Mini is a free Mobile Browser, runs on any phone capable of running Java mobile applications and using an internet connection; most phones made since 2001 fulfill these requirements. Depending on how we get Opera Mini, our provider may charge us for the actual download. When surfing with Opera Mini, Web pages are optimized and compressed before being sent to our phone. This means that even though our mobile provider may charge us for the data which is transferred to our phone, the amount of data transferred is significantly less than it would normally be, making mobile surfing cheaper. Opera Mini, Seems to be very COOL !! >>

IBM has invested a billion dollars in Linux, they have made a little investment in some Linux fun. They created these animated features for our enjoyment - watch them and have a laugh :)... >>

Lifehacker has a listed some cool keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. It shows how to select the location bar, the search bar, moving back and forward through sites, changing the search engine, and even how to perform tasks that are enabled by extensions, like spellchecking. All Firefox users must checkit out. >>

Java has won the "TIOBE Programming Language of 2006" award. The Java language has increased its popularity in 2005 with 4.77%. The runners up for 2005 are C# (+1.35%) and suprisingly Visual Basic (+1.17%)... heheeeheee ;). Sound's really COOL... Java ROCKS EVERYWHERE!! >>

Watch this video to feel the speed difference between the iMac G5 Processors with the iMac Intel Processors, the difference is quite amazying. Is the apple's move towards Intel processor is correct??!! >>

Look at the World's First Computer Bug Moth found trapped in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program". What a bug :) >>

JAVA Quick Reference card by Jialong, lists all the basic Java datatypes, classes, Operators, Java packages. A very good handy tool for fast reference and useful for basic level of users, espceially if you are preparing for SCJP examination. >>

JFlash, helps to bring Macromedia Flash functionality to Java our applications. The JFlash project has created a pure-Java player for Flash .swf files that runs in J2SE or J2ME (CLDC 1.0 / MIDP 2.0). The current J2SE version is in Alpha which supports most of the functionality of the Flash 3 format. JFlash seems to be very COOL API, that will introduce lots of possibilites between JAVA and Flash. >>

Watch this funniest video ;), about a love story between Apple Mac and PC, quite interesting and very good work by mediaest ... >>

Developer.com Annonced the Product of the Year for 2006 and the Winners are ....

JSR (Java Specification Request) of the Year:
JSR 244: Java EE 5.0

Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in of the Year:
J2ME™ Wireless Toolkit From Sun Microsystems Inc.

Web Service Product of the Year:
Google APIs From Google Inc.

Development Tool of the Year:
Eclipse From the Eclipse Foundation

Framework of the Year:
JavaServer Faces From Sun Microsystems Inc.

Security Tool or Add-in of the Year:
Sun Java System Identity Manager From Sun Microsystems Inc.

Open Source Tool of the Year (Tie):
OpenOffice 2.0 From OpenOffice.org and
Firefox From Mozilla Foundation

Technology of the Year:
AJAX From Mozilla Developer Center

Development Utility of the Year:
Ant From The Apache Software Foundation

Database Tool or Add-in of the Year:
MySQL 5.0 From MySQL AB

Java Tool/Add-in of the Year:
Sun Java™ Studio Creator By Sun Microsystems Inc.

That's a very COOL list, like last year Java-technologies has taken most of the categories... :) >>

Jonathan Ive, 38, Apple's senior vice president of design, on Friday was awarded the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the queen. The title recognizes Ive's achievements in industrial design as leader of the team that produced not only the iPod but also the iMac, iBook and PowerBook computer lines in his nearly 13-year career at Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple. Hats off to Jonathan Ive !! :) >>

After 37 year Intel changes it's logo. Intel is increasingly positioning itself as a consumer-oriented, digital media platform provider rather than merely a supplier of CPUs and components for other manufacturers. The logo seems to be very simple doesn’t seems to be creative.. >>

We all have used smileys [Emoticons] in our mails to show our feels, which are read horizontally, but japanese who always think different have different smileys(Emoticons) are read vertically. Most look simply crazy to me, they have smileys with 15 and more letters. The translation is sometimes funny as well. (^ _^) [means smile] >>

If you want to pick a new Programming language, read on the article on "How To Pick A Programming Language" by Tim Daneliuk. Interesting to read on and quite funny too. >>

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Balakumar Muthu