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Archive for January, 2008
BlackBerry Remote Stereo Gateway
In: Blackberry
31 Jan 2008Today RIM presented the BlackBerry Remote Stereo Gateway. It allows you to stream music from your BlackBerry to any device. I could for example use it to connect my BlackBerry wireless to my Yamaha receiver in the living room.  I hope that RIM improves the Blackberry Media Player before shipping this product because it [...]
@Override specification changes in Java 6
25 Jan 2008Between Java 5 and Java 6 changes to the specification of @Override have been made. In Java 6 it is possible to add the @Override annotation to methods that implement methods of an interface which is not allowed in Java 5. I noticed the difference when a friend told me that he had to remove [...]
Ten years of “mobility”
In: Blackberry|Mobile
24 Jan 2008Nearly ten years ago I bought my first mobile phone. I will take this anyversary as a reason to write a small sumary about all the phones I had within the last decade. August 1998 – Samsung SGH My first mobile phone. I bought this one with a prepayd card called B-Free from Mobilkom Austria. [...]
Leaked pictures show Blackberry 9000?
In: Blackberry|RIM
24 Jan 2008Three weeks ago pictures of a new BlackBerry were leaked. Nobody was sure what device it really was and when it will be officially announced. Some said it was a fake, others were sure that it was a special new device of the 8xxx series. Now it turns out that the device could however be [...]
IT shopping day?
In: General
16 Jan 2008What a day: Oracle acquires BEA, Sun wants to buy MySQL … seems like some changes are going on. Another Java application server dies but I hope the JDBC support of MySQL gets better.
MiniMoni BlackBerry traffic monitor final
In: Blackberry
14 Jan 2008Version 1.0.0 of MiniMoni was released today. MiniMoni is a small BlackBerry traffic monitor that logs all incoming and outgoing traffic on your device. I tried it and so far I am impressed. It runs in the background, shows a traffic graph and writes log files to your memory card. Here is a screenshot I [...]
Web sites that can change your (online) life
In: Web
14 Jan 2008Today I stumbled upon a nice list of web sites. I knew about 70% of them but I found some interesting new ones … how about you?
Spring with AspectJ in Eclipse
11 Jan 2008Some weeks ago I wrote a custom JSP tag for a Spring project I am currently working on. Inside the tag I wanted to use a Spring bean. Soon I realized that this case had to be handled a bit different because the tag is instantiated by the application server and not from the Spring [...]
Eclipse command line argument
9 Jan 2008When working with Eclipse I usually have multiple workspaces I am are working with (different projects, clients, branches, …). I found a useful command line argument that displays the path of the current workspace in the window tittle bar – showlocation. Just add it to your eclipse.ini file, mine looks like this: -showlocation -showsplash org.eclipse.platform [...]
Skype upgrade issues
7 Jan 2008Today I tried to upgrade to the newest Skype version 3.6.0.244 but I had some issues. Every time I ran the installer it stopped in the middle of the process showing me the following error message: I found this forum post describing how to get rid of Error code 1603. Therefore I just had to [...]
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- tompson: Hi Roman, my main class is a groovy class [...]
- Roman Gonzales: Hey quick question: your main class is a java class that calls the groovy classes or is your main [...]
- Nathan Rodriguez: i am only using free virus scanners like avast and avira but they seem to be great tools though:;` [...]
- sim4000: Yay, it works. Thank you! [...]
- Ewan Matthews: there would be a great demand for mobile browsers in the coming years that is for sure.;'- [...]
- Create executable jar package with dependencies
- Issues with Mylyn and JIRA 4.1
- Equals and HashCode and Hibernate
- Using twhirl with StatusNet
- Problems connecting with jconsole to linux jvm
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express and facebook app
- Error code 1920 when installing VMware converter
- tightvnc messes up keyboard layout after Ubuntu upgrade
- The old Bold and the new Bold
- Windows Media player streaming problem
tOMPSON's tweets
- first time restoring new MacBook from a Time Capsule backup worked great! Time Machine FTW #fb
- Being a BlackBerry fan with an iPad I can not understand how people could live that long with an iPhone without multitasking #fb
- Can't wait for the iOS update for de iPad #fb
- Wow, The new official twitter client for the iPad os brilliant - though I think it violates some style guides #fb
- just uninstalled the Google Wave Notifier from Chrome - LOL
- I favorited a YouTube video -- Ed Byrne slates Alanis Morissette http://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg?a
- I'm at Il Teatro Antica Trattoria (Hamerlingerstr 46, Linz). http://4sq.com/7ccwyW
- so the spare parts for my wife's MacBook cost 1000 EUR and a new one the same? wtf #fb
- Livestream of Apple keynote works great so far, no bandwidth problem, looks great on the iPad #fb
- RT @timr: new post: More report options: Today we released a new version of timr including the long awaited feature ... http://bit.ly/9QqNgy