[@181] Content feeds with RSS 2.0. This article reviews RSS 2.0, looks at new RSS developments, and jump-starts your understanding of this important format. Magic with Merlin: The generics prototype. Laurent — SWT/JFace/Windows Media Player. Jason — Are there Java jobs in the UK? Kathy — Rekindle your passion for programming. Hani — Touch my YAUL! Andreas — GeoServer 1.1.0 Released. Aaron — Counterpoint: Downloading Isn't Stealing. Bob — Java object serialization: readResolve() is broken.. Jeremy — Bill's Vision Of Our Home Future and The USB Pen. Rui — Why GarageBand Matters. Philips, Visa advance wireless pay cards. Plans to further develop a wireless technology that aims to let shoppers pay everywhere —without opening their wallets. Niel — JPluck is a must have for Palm PDAs. O'Reilly releases "Running Mac OS X Panther". JPluck 2.0.8, a Plucker document creation toolkit. Mike — Morgan Freeman To Release Next Film Online. [@923] Password Manager 3.2, a Java-based password manager. Dion — Squiggle SQL Builder for Java Released. Rusty — The figure that sticks in my memory from Steve Jobs' keynote… Archos launches 20GB disk-based MP3 player. GMINI 220 is the "industry's smallest 20GB portable MP3 player." Unlimited international calling arrives. AT&T calling plans, around $50/month. Sendo X gets speech recognition. UK smartphone gets speaker-independent voice recognition thanks to Voice Signal. SSL/Java : Bug du 07/01/04. The Verisign certificate distributed with the JVMS expired Jan 7, 2004. Daniel — The time on Mars. JAMon API 1.0, a Performance Tuning API. Diego — bittorrent is nice, but… HP to license iPod from Apple. HP-branded player and iTunes on HP PCs. Java Card S Program. The new Java Card program to accelerate worldwide adoption. Glenn — U.S. Leads Home Wi-Fi Market. Kevin — More JGoodies coming and Fontifier: get your handwriting in a font for free. Rusty — Robert Oloffson has posted version 0.38 of Java Memory Profiler (JMP). David — IntelliJ Aurora build #1080 is out, Writing Groovy templates in blojsom and RE: Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas Michael — Web Page Color Scheme Picker. Matt — Cactus and Form-Based Authentication. Brian — JBoss and Guerilla Marketing: Richard Saunders. Cameron — JVM Sharing is IN?!?!?!?! Jay — what's the difference between a geek, a nerd and a dork? RealPlayer for Windows 10.0 Beta Released. Motorola licenses Wheels of Zeus for electronics. The latest venture of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Mike — DVD-Sharing Device And Fair Use Questions. Archos Video Player. [@658] Grouping objects with the Java Collections Framework. Grouping objects is possibly the most common task a software developer will perform on a day-to-day basis. When a constant isn't really a constant. Cyclic class dependencies can create unpredictable runtime behavior. JDataGrid 1.0 Released. Model for Self-Managing Java Servers, a working model of a non-stopping, Java-based server. Jeremy — List of Java and Win32 stuff. Paul — "Eclipse: Step-by-Step" is great. Fred — IBM gets Linux Desktop in 2005. Derek — Check your framework at the door. Wendong — TagandScan: create the virtual city. Joi — Google whois quicklink. Keith — WinExposé. Simon — A hacker's introduction to OS X. Keyspan introduces revolutionary USB Server. Share printers, hard drives, scanners and more. French DVD Player Ignoring Anti-Copying Code. Already sold 100,000 units in the last 6 months. More on getters and setters. How to use the Gang of Four Builder design pattern to construct both Web-based and client-side user interfaces without exposing your object's implementation to the entire program. Attack of the clones. Time and space considerations in four different approaches to implementing deep clone() methods. Live from CES: Bill Gates' keynote address. Mike — Mailblocks Offers Free, Scaled Down Challenge Response. Sony to Launch Online Music Service, New Mini Disc (Reuters). 500,000 songs for downloading at about $1 per tune. Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Sorry for the lack of update this afternoon. We returned to Vicki's sister house only to find out that the power was out.

We immediately had to take emergency measures to ensure the well-being of her various fish tanks.

We brought the dogs back with us for the night, but might take them back and sleep over if the power is restored later on tonight.

J2SE 1.5 Available for Review Until January 20. The Community Review Draft Specification for JSR-176 J2SE 1.5 (Tiger) Release Contents is now available for Review.

The Effective Use of Joins in Select Statements. This article examines syntax, surprises, and rules of thumb for the use of joins.

Apples and Oranges (and the Java Units Specification). The Java Units Specification allows developers to create systems of units and to define conversion and representation rules in Java. JSR 108.

Matt — No Boundaries Or Rules.

Matthew — Investing in Open Source companies.

Russ — A Year as a Series 60 Owner.

Jim — SPOT or Unsightly Rash?

Diego — Handset prices in Ireland.

Kevin — My Favorite Songs of 2003.

Michael— Things that could be different - Part 1: Exceptions.

John — Learning To K.I.S.S.

Sam — Standalone Java programs on Unix systems.

Simon — Reaping the benefits of RSS.

Yahoo adding an aggregator to My Yahoo? [via Mark]

Jeremy — Justification for spending too much money on a home.

Cedric — Spam, spam, spam.

Rui — Quick Links.

PMD 1.4 scans Java source code and looks for potential problems.

JavaLayer 0.4. MP3 decoder library for J2ME/CDC platform.

Gates to show PC-TV connection during his CES keynote address.

Western Digital Introduces Revolutionary Drive. Western Digital has introduced plug-in hard drive that reads eight memory card types.

Mike — The $7 Micropayment Shopping Spree.

Socket Communications Intros Wireless Bluetooth Modem.

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Daniel — The time for Java 3.

Internet Archive Opens Wayback Code Under LGPL. Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source web crawler project.

Guillaume — Groovy Logo Contest.

Andrew — Good Customer service and HORRIBLE customer service.

Analysts expect GarageBand to benefit Mac sales. "GarageBand might even have more long-term effect on Apple's sales [than the new iPod mini]…"

iRiver's new 40GB MP3 player. The iHP-140 supports: Ogg Vorbis, SRS, line-in for voice memos, USB 2, digital/analog in/outputs, remote control with LCD, built-in FM tuner and a text file reader.

Study: Wi-Fi weaving its way into homes.

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The feedback on my last Pulse has been phenomenal, so far. Not many suggestions, but a truckload of "Keep it going as it is the only reason I keep on reading the newsletter." — Thanks!

Charles — How to Tell Javablogs When You've Updated and Util Madness.

Dave — Wireless Audio Getting Somewhere.

Keith — Hyperthreading.

DrPython 2.0.0, a cross-platform IDE for Python.

Ben — More MacWorld.

Macworld: FrogPad's one-handed Bluetooth keyboard.

Jeremy — box: source code available.

Matt — Hacked (Again).

Apple, Garageband.com agree to share name. An agreement has been signed.

Simon — Getting Windows version information in Python.

Rui — DSC-F828. Sony new digicam with  8MP CCD.

AMD Shipping 64-Bit Athlon for Notebooks. Apple better get the PowerBook G5s ready asap.

Commentary: Ten tips for killer Web services. Best and worst practices of early adopters.

Jim — Mini iPod - is it a good idea?

Brian — Things I Wish I Had Time to Code in 2004.

Ryan — Started work on my Tivo-like MythTV on RedHat 9.

Sebastiano — On my bookshelf: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

Ximian software gets SuSE support. Novell is integrating its two major Linux acquisitions, SuSE Linux and Ximian, in a move to bring enterprises back on board.

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JCert Is Dead. According to the web site the initiative has finally expired.

Diego — weird referer and the wal-mart way.

Martin — Appleness.

Russ — Mobile Web Page Thoughts and Keynote Thoughts.

Tom — Macromedia hires ex-MS, ex-Symbian geezer.

Brett — Good Free RSS Reader for Outlook.

Matt — HowTo: Get an input field's value with Canoo's WebTest and RE: My Predictions for MacWorld Announcements.

Mark — IDEA EAP #1074 out.

Markus — iPod Mini!

Brent — Gruber on GarageBand.

Joe — Running Groovy natively without the JVM.

Keith — Regular expression tools and Lightweight scripting/extension languages.

Jeremy — Is It Back To Basics For The PDA? and Apple Excites, Disappoints With iPod Mini.

MyEclipse 2.7 RC2, a full-featured J2EE IDE based on the Eclipse platform offering support for JSP, EJB, XML, and Struts development.

NetGear plugs Wi-Fi into hi-fis. A device that retrofits music stereos so they can connect to wireless networks and play songs from a PC.

Mike — Pennsylvania's Porn Blocking Law Case Begins.

Ted — Feed cleanup toolkit.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Dan — MacWorld SF is a Klinker.

Jeremy — VoIP is a Feature.

Lars — List of Project Management Ressources.

Michael — Mozilla LiveHTTPHeaders.

Chuq — World's smallest cel phone…

Quick Links or ''The Apple Aftermath''.

Further Car/iPod Integration. Alpine to release car stereo with iPod focus.

Review: Sony's ultrathin X505 laptop.

RealNetworks Launches Media Player, Music Store. RealPlayer 10. Music Store based on Rhapsody. iPod compatible.

Macworld: Sybase and Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Made it! 35mph on the freeway which was fine by me since I was stuck in 4WD most of the way.

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I'm going to try to make my way down to Vicki. She's been staying at her sister's, dog-sitting. Feel free to call search and rescue if you don't hear from me for a while.

Matthew — Disappointed.

Neil— Apple's new iPod minis, and iLife suite.

Mike — More US Cities Banning Driving While Yakking.

Andrew — Spring Framework 1.0 M4.

Bill — Will Cell Phones Render iPods Obselete?

Macworld Photo Album. [via Anil]

Apple Previews Xgrid Technology, a computational clustering technology from Apple's Advanced Computation Group.

Run WebLogic Server 8.1 on Mac OS X (Panther). A complete description for getting WebLogic Server 8.1 (SP1) installed and running on Mac OS X.

High Definition Radio is Here. HD Radio, invented by iBiquity Digital, adds a digital channel to the sidebands of an existing analog FM signal.

Alexander — MWSF Reactions.

Ben — Mini ipod, maxi markup.

Russ — Nokia 6600: AT&T Wireless GPRS, MMS, and WAP Settings.

Stefan — The Best Managers 2003: Repeat Performers.

Tom — Punters want cheap, simple PDAs.

Tristan — MacWorld 2004: What was NOT said.

Palm OS6 Shipped.

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Matt — Macworld Coverage.

Diego — spambots get smarter and watching job's macworld keynote.

Jeremy — Apple Makes Windows Hardware.

Cedric — iPod Mini.

Rui — The MacWorld? 2004 Keynote.

Macworld: Apple intros flash-based iPod mini for $249.

Mike — Memo To The New Head Of The MPAA: Embrace The Technology.

Kevin — Apple debuts GarageBand music software.

Macworld: Microsoft unveils Office 2004, Virtual PC 7.

We're snowed in.  

Dion Almaer — TheServerSide reports on Java Tools Community Press Conference.

Cory — What do lower P2P numbers mean?

Brent — GarageBand.

Bluetooth wireless stereo adapter for the iPod debuts. TEN Technology's naviPlay.

Motorola Takes Leap Into Flat-Screen TV Market. Motorola unveiled its flat-screen TVs this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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After looking into Lance's problem, I decided to implement support for the ETag header in my feeds yesterday. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Allon — 21 Grams.

Andrew — Jakarta Struts Resources.

Magician — Mysql JDBC 3.09 and below has a bug.

Thomas — DisplayTag in action.

Wendong — Try those mobile sites on your phone.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Wes — Sony Ericsson P800 gains video recording.

Chiara — Something isn't right in this picture with all these attacks on Hani.

Keith — Links.

Chuq — Polling RSS feeds….

iTunes Music Store: Billboard Charts and iTunes Top 100.

Mike — Yahoo Will Dump Google.

In pursuit of perfection. Can Java become the perfect technology platform?

JSynoptic 0.6, a graphical sheet editor.

Daniel — Going Native.

Omondo EclipseUML is a visual modeling tool, natively integrated with Eclipse and CVS.

Presentation Layer for Struts. The Common-Controls form a Java Presentation Framework based on Java Servlets, JSP and Struts.

OSWorkflow 2.6, an open source workflow solution with pluggable persistance and integration with J2EE.

Diego — swt and swing, cont'd.

Matt — Macworld Warmup.

Russ — SteveTV.

Tom — Worldwide, more people use mobile phones than the Internet and We need a mobile-oriented top-level domain.

Rafe — DoCoMo slip out Symbian powered handset and Symbian predictions for 2004.

Henri — simple-jndi 0.8.

Michael — Coffee Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes?

Jeremy — box: monitoring RSS/RDF feeds via email/SMS.

Mohd — JSTL formatting tips.

CSS Editor 0.0.1, an Eclipse Plugin.

MySQL database coming to Itanium 2. Now available for the HP-UX operating system as well as for Linux running on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 chip.

US inspired copyright laws set to sweep the globe — for fun and profit.

Athlon 64 3400+ Reviewed. It gives a P4 3.2GHz Canterwood based machine a run for its money…

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Guillermo — Java Tools Community Press Conference.

JSwat Java Debugger 2.19, a JPDA based graphical Java debugger.

Mike — Is Any Bank Not Taking Part In The Google IPO?

Gerald — Scripting Language of the Year 2003 Award - And The Winner Is…

Donkey Kong JR. Flashy.

David — Syndication feed cleanup (GZIP Filter and Conditional GET plugin).

Dave — Scamming Technorati.

Real to launch AAC format music store. Advanced Audio Coding wrapped in Real's own Helix DRM technology, won't work on iPods.

Chuq — Hiring time…

Anthony — SELECT @@IDENTITY.

Aaron — Unspeakable Things.

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Matthew — 7 million and counting and Dave on Fawcette.

Joshua — 2004: the year of the Net-App.

Mark — XML Tutorials.

Mark — IDEA EAP #1071.

Wouter — JBoss Tutorials.

Danny — Smalltalk free books

Review: Windows XP SP2 Beta.

Frank — The quest for the ultimate mobile office.

Matt — We need a mobile-oriented top-level domain.

Matt — My Predictions for MacWorld Announcements.

CodeTek announces VirtualDesktop 3.0.

California eases up on Net phone rules and California Debuts New Online Privacy Laws.

Mike — We Need To Regulate TiVos Now?

iTunes DRM cracked wide open for GNU/Linux. DVD Jon unpicks locked music.

Paul — MTOtherBlog (v 0.25).

TiVo sues EchoStar over DVR patent. "Multimedia time warping system" patent.

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Python UnZipped. Creating, extracting, and adding to Zip archives using the standard zipfile module.

Daniel — Agile Resolutions.

Carlos — Anemic Domain Model and SOA.

Tom — Anonymous confessions weblog.

Kevin — Nick Bradbury on software piracy.

Dion — Article: In pursuit of perfection. New Year Resolutions for Java.

Martin — Fedora and JDK 1.3.1.

Pinocio — On so-called Anemic Domain Model.

Simon — Joss Stone: A 'Norah Jones' moment.

Eric — Big List of Blog Search Engines.

Mike — PocketMac now for MS Smartphones!

Paul — GNU celebrates 20th anniversary.

New 2GB hard drive source for 'Mini iPods'? 2GB Cornice Storage Element.

Linux: 2.4.24 Stable Kernel, fixes a vulnerability in the mremap() syscall which could be used to gain root privileges.

Better search results than Google? and Grokker could be the future of search.

BitTorrent users chuckling over Pew peer-to-peer report. Isn't it possible that more of the trafficking is just moving off the radar? Duh!

Sam — CES: A-Z.

Daniel — XDoclet for Multiple Targets.

Fred — Code Generation in J2ME.

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Anthony — Anemic Domain Model Reactions.

Mark — feedparser 2.7 is out.

Paul — Will Apple's innovations and influence ever translate into market share?.

Simon — JavaScript in Python.

Roxio unveils Toast With Jam 6.

MacWorld SF 2004 Keynote Satellite Coordinates. The satellite coordinates for the MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Keynote speech.

MacWorld SF 2004 Keynote Satellite Coordinates. The satellite coordinates for the MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Keynote speech.

JCE taglib for JSP 1.0RC, an open source JCE (strong encryption) JSP taglib.

Netcraft: Go Daddy, The Planet Continue Strong Growth.

Norway throws in the towel in DVD Jon case. No more appeals.

Dion — Opinion: Object Identity and how JDK 1.2+ removed a core feature.

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XML Validation Structures: DTDs and schemas.

Blitz Project, an open source JavaSpaces implementation designed to ease development and deployment of JavaSpaces technology.

Matt — openMosix Summit 2004.

Tom — Nokia says 3G isn't for video calls - yet and Why operators love SMS.

Frank — Fight credit card fraud with SMS.

Mac site to give live SMS updates of MacWorld. MacTeens.

Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay. Songwriters think of themselves as the unsung victims of Internet music piracy since their incomes can depend on royalties…

Anthony — Server-side AWT.

Russ — Azureus And Sun's Big Mistake.

Charles — Huge Improvements in Java Performance, JavaGrande and Challenging C++ Performance.

Sam — Object Identity and why JDK 1.0.2/1.1 was better than 1.2+ .

Simon — OpenOffice.org file format book downloadable.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Dan — Director Gets JavaScript! Hooray!

Chiara — All these buzz words make me sick.

Keith — Links.

Lars — DocBook NG - first preview.

Cedric — A trip back with father Tiresias.

Roland — Express Yourself — Correctly.

MWSF Keynote QuickTime Stream Announced.

JASA 0.25, a high-performance auction simulation software in Java.

Tutorial: Demystifying the sendmail.mc.

RIAA Crackdown May Be Slowing Music Downloading. The percentage of Americans who download music online has been sliced in half, according to a report released Sunday.

We spent the night at Vicki's sister, dog-sitting while she's out of town.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Matt — Martian Links.

Rael — textamerica Gives Back the Photos and Free Sony Ericsson Ringtones, Themes, etc.

Glenn — Tacoma Civic Network Decides Hotspots a Security Risk.

Simon — Big speed step in NeoOffice/J 0.7.1 for Mac OS X.

Laird — Discipline.

Britney Spears Married in Vegas, Copy of the couple's marriage application and Britney Annuls Vegas Wedding.

Oliver — html scraping.

Mark — testing out blogworkz.

jmon 0.02, a system monitor.

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Alan — Online Persona = Real Persona?

Rui — mySQL Navigation Warning. MySQL 4.1.1-alpha does not install correctly on Mac OS X.

Psi 0.9.1, a cool Jabber client.

Matt — Running AppFuse on Resin.

JAutoCombo 1.0, a reusable auto-complete combo box for JFC/Swing.

Roland — The Top Ten Real Nanotech Products Of 2003.

PC Makers Bet on Consumer Electronics in Vegas. CES.

Bob — Web Services? What has the industry been smoking?

Virtual Dimension 0.93, a virtual desktop manager.

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accept headers are horribly broken. [via dive into mark b-links]

Rui — HOWTO/Enable PHP on Mac OS X and So MIDP is a Standard and Java is portable, huh?

Russ — Avedia.com: Squatted.

Frank — Camera Prohibition and SyncML - hellloooo, anyone there?

Rusty — Thomas Zander has released UICompiler 1.2, an open source rapid prototyping tool for Swing GUIs based on Qt Designer and JDOM.

Keith — joscar activity update.

Patrick — My Book… Biled.

Nick — JPL's Maestro a Java base apps that blows me away!

Ted — RSS Feed cleanups.

Carlos — PicoChickens.

Keith — Links.

Anselm — 2004 Radar Detector Test and Buyer's Guide.

Will Apple Keep the Lead? The New York Post writes about how Apple is the best position its been in for some time with the success of its most recent line of Macs, the iPod…

2004 OpenOffice.Org Status Report. Looks like a lot of progress has been made behind the scenes.

Review: Apache Cookbook.

Joe — Rather depressing re: Javalobby and JDJ.

CD-Rs and MP3s Not Hurting Record Sales. Forget the industry shills' spin - the numbers prove that, for Australia, CD-Rs and MP3s are not hurting record sales in the slightest…

Tom — Cameraphone Prohibition.

Marc — Websphere 5.1, Ant and IntelliJ.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Matthew — High Definition TV in Europe.

Russ — Print To Mobile continued…

David — blojsom 2.07 available.

Karl-Martin — Just links, Programming links and Even more links.

Bob — Drools 2.0-beta-12.

Dan — Spammers May Be Their Own Undoing and Spam Stats Interesting.

Keith — Links.

Ara — DVD Conversion.

Brent — RSS Bandwidth and Gzip compression.

Kellan — Postfix: The Definitive Guide and CardFile.org - syndicated contact info.

Chris — Very sad sig…

Rui — Amid The Midlets and Want to help port KDE stuff to Mac OS X?

JMP3Renamer 1.7.3, a small tool written in Java which renames downloaded MP3 files with the help of CDDB entries.

HOWTO: build your own Flash Player RPM for FC1. In this tutorial you will learn how to build Flash Player RPM package and install it for Fedora Core 1.

Review of Gateway's 20GB MP3 player. PC Magazine review of the DMP-X20 Digital Music Jukebox.

Belgian watchdog sues record biz over copy protection. Anti-piracy protection illegal?

JavaLayerME 0.1.1. MP3 decoder library for J2ME/CDC platform.

3GPP + 3GPP2 + QuickTime: The Future Is Calling.

Darwin Streaming Server. The open source version of the QuickTime Streaming Server is now serving up 3GPP.

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François — A journey into WiFi.

Washington Post's annual "In and Out" list for 2004. Better than most such lists. [via Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Mark — Relative URIs in HTML.

Joi — Judgmental technology.

Kevin — Brazil to Fingerprint US Tourists and Kill that EULA.

Glen — HSQLDB is rather nice.

Robert — IBM developing Google Killer?

Are You A Blogaholic? Apparently I'm a casual weblogger. Say what?

AT&T Wireless Offers Latin Mobile Content. Latin Garage.

You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam. That comes to 40 messages a day per user.

Matt — A little EL Lovin' for the DisplayTag.

Tim — Fawcette Doesn't Get It.

PLINK: people link, a FOAF search engine. [via anil dash's daily links]

Ted — Zsh vs bash?

Year in review: Copy protection goes mainstream. Hackers and critics kept up their opposition, but consumers and businesses began accepting digital rights management.

Matthew — Open Source - pure cloning?

ZauRSS 0.2.2, an RSS aggregator for Qtopia.

Guy — Go-faster WiFi - with one short spray!

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Matthew — European domains anyone?

Eric — Running Groovy Scripts From Java Applications.

Mike — Downloading Music Encouraging CD Purchasing and Musicians That Give Away Music.

James — Looking Back, Looking Forward.

Brent — CSS in RSS (yet again).

TM4J 0.9.0 alpha 2, a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java.

MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Rumor Roundup. miniPods, etc.

The first five SPOT watches. Smart Personal Object Technology.

Laurent — Killing COM - The Managed Code Saga.

oh god not again: on piracy. [via dive into mark b-links]

Tim — My Wired News Wishes for 2004.

Sun and IBM to lead 64-bit boom. On AMD's back.

MP3 Winners and Losers for 2003. Richard Menta over at MP3newswire.net just posted his annual winners and losers list in digital music for last year.

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Damn hard quiz. King William's College annual quiz.

Matt — Roundup: Clearing the Buffer.

Rael — Using Merlin GPRS card with a PowerBook.

California bans front seat laptop use.. As of January 1, 2004 the State of California has banned the use of notebook computers used anywhere in the front seat of a moving vehicle.

Emily — Crackdown In Cinemas.

David — Blog The Vote: Fourth Annual Weblog Awards.

Nick — String concatenation using + operator considered bad..

Bruce — Java Toolset.

Prabhu — Accessing Yahoo Using POP3.

Werner — Java Open Source Programming (with Xdoclet,JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate): "a missed opportunity".

Bill — Predictions for 2004.

Norman — Some rare browser innovation.

Cedric — Pico-puzzled.

Scott — PayPal Europe to Launch Soon.

Christoph — CodeBeautifier with UltraEdit Wordfiles for Perl,PHP and MT.

Tristan — 2004 Predictions.

DateChooser 1.1.2. A Calendar input dialog widget for Java.

Mike — Who's Surfing Internet Porn? Might Not Be Who You Would Expect.

Spain Has 2.2 Million Broadband Internet Lines. 4th highest number in the European Union.

Carlos — Pico-challenged.

Rui — MIDP Woes, AppleScript? Goodies.

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Smile, the open source JavaServer Faces implementation.

JACK. Java All Class reference Kit, an API explorer.

Keith — ICQ support coming.

Punit — Tips for Better EJB Performance.

Bruce — Why we use Ant (or: NIH).

Bill — Word to XHTML again.

MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Rumor Roundup.  A summary of the major rumors circulating around the Mac Web.

Review: Unix Shell Programming, Third Edition.

Review of the Roku. PC Magazine review of the Roku HD1000.

US album sales continue to fall. CD sales in the US drop 2.1% in 2003, although there are signs of recovery for the music business.

Frank — On USB stick usability.

Stefan — Victoria's Secret Show 2003.

2004 bloggies are open! The Bloggies are publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs

Preview: Windows XP Service Pack 2.

'Healthcare spam' heads junk mail. Triple-X action, Viagra and diet pills dominated spam e-mails in 2003, according to AOL research.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.