[@042] Store objects using the Preferences API. If your data can be expressed as simple objects, the API can be useful storage. More Than 18 Million Software Downloads from Sun's java.com. Chris — What If the iApps Had Been the jApps? Dion — Ant 1.6 Makes an Appearance. Carlos — Counter Intuitive Rules for Software Success. Russ — J2ME for BREW Phones and iTunes for Windows. Frank — Apple gets it - again and European Music Industry: WAKE UP! Alan — One really cool applet! Ken — IDEA EAP build #944 review. Andreas — Clustered JDBC. Ben — The CVS book. Brent — NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.6. Jeremy — VeriSign selling DNS business. Niel — JReceiver: Another Very Cool Open Source Java Project. TagUnit 1.0-beta4 released. Java XTools 1.1, a collection of functions for Java and Java 3D. Java Email Server 1.3, an SMTP POP3 email server. The iPod accessories are out. iPod Media Reader and iPod Voice Recorder. PC Shipments Rise 15 Percent, Driven By Notebook Sales. Lime Wire launches legal content portal. It's not all dodgy Metallica CD rips, you know. Anti-Spammers Win Major Court Battle. EMarketersAmerica.org case dismissed with prejudice. [@668] Review: Mac OS X Panther 10.3. Hand/RSS for Palm OS. Plam-based aggregator. Gates: MS has 20m mobile market share, heads for 60%. Mark — Atom revealed. Creative's 60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra. Officially announced. [@551] David — blojsom 2.03 available. Brent — Verisign bad? Mark Roth pointed me to his excellent TLDDoc tool. I'm planning on using it for the Google Tag Library. Will you Take Her Away? My current desktop wallpaper. Matt — My Foo Camp Gallery. Matt — HowTo: Integrate Apache and Resin. Leslie — Quick links. Haiko — More aggregators. Tim — Debbie Does BitTorrent. Tom — Java not cross-platform? Comparatif Java G5/PC. Comparing Java performance on a G5 and various PCs. Apple UK confirms iPod add-ons launch. Commenting on unannounced product? Charles — SLEE - A Java Application Server for the future. Simon — XDoclet in the J2EE web tier. Debashish — Javaranch newsletter: October Issue.

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Diego — O2's and Vodafone's "idiot upgrade package".

Matt — Hotspot Roundup.

Is Bluetooth Dead? According to the EETimes, Bluetooth is dead.

Dion — XForms 1.0 Finalized.

Hani — JRoller TOS.

peKevin — NewsMonster 1.2.2 Beta.

Apple reports $44 million profit for the fourth quarter.

New Internet speed record set. Sent 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second from Geneva to California.

Microsoft Issues First Monthly Security Alert. Five 'critical' flaws.

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Russ — The Boom is Alive and American Mobile Thoughts.

Joe — Avoid "TeckChek" — Invalid questions and lousy browser support.

Cheah — Comparing Mozilla Firebird with other browsers.

JEL 0.9.11, a compiler for one-line expressions into Java bytecode.

Bluetooth cellphone headset roundup. Motorola Bluetooth Headset, Nextlink Bluespoon Digital, Nokia HDW-2, Plantronics M3000, Sony Ericsson's HBH-35 and HBH-60, Siemens HHB-500.

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N-Gage works with iSync. Needs some tinkering.

Nik — Packard Bell Athlon 64 XP notebook close to r…

Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows 0.3, Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac OS X 0.3 and Mozilla Thunderbird for Linux 0.3.

Mozilla Firebird for Windows 0.7, Mozilla Firebird for Mac OS X 0.7 and Mozilla Firebird for Linux 0.7.

Dismal first week for N-Gage, say games retailers. Tomb Raider tops handheld's software chart.

Jonathan — Now that's a specification.

Matt — JSP Navigation Systems.

Jim — Keeping Blaine Awake.

PC World: Apple G5 Gets Trounced By Athlon64.

Mozilla Launches Version 1.5. The Mozilla 1.5 suite.

Anil — hey, come work with us.

New TV wrist watch. Powered by the Sony Tuner chip-set.

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Java Upgrade Guide: Migrating From the MSJVM to the Sun JRE.

Tech Tips: Introduction to the Java3D API and Using the TransferHandler

Intel profits up 142%. 1.7 billion dollars.

David — blojsom 2.03 progress.

Dion — Installers for Java Programs.

Jayson — Blarg #2: What do you think about weblogs?.

Vattekkat — Quick Links.

Leslie — Quick links.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.6fc2.

Seyed — Friends of MonkeyX (FOMX).

Alan — Programming Fonts.

FileZilla 2.2.1a, a very neat FTP client.

J2ME VNC Client. Alpha 2.9.5 released.

JDBC SQL Profiler 0.2 released.

D-Link doubles the speed of 802.11g. Proprietary.

Get the Sony Ericsson T610 for free at Amazon. With contract.

Dell launches Axim X3. Three new Axim models are unveiled as Dell officially launches the X3 series.

Bill Gates: 'Longhorn is going to be late'. Interview Driven by progress, not release date.

RealRadix — Fake university certificates.

I've installed and configured mod_jk2. I'm hoping it will solve some of the problems I've been seeing with mod_webapp lately.

Cheah — Mozilla Firebird 0.7 released!

Intel to shrink Celeron to 90nm during Q1 2004. 'Most of the value line' in that timeframe.

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Daniel — CSS and Swing.

Rusty — DocBook Docklet version 0.5.1 and JDebugTool version 3.3.

David  — Blog Name Generator.

Sam — Nice FREE C# IDE.

Mathias — TheServerSide again worth the read.

Hani — CPU based pricing.

Anil — my infoworld interview.

Janne — JSPWiki joins Debian.

Kevin — Orlowski blinded by hatred for blogs again.

Chris — Bad Bots history lesson.

JSP Documentation Generator 1.0.8. Generates javadoc-style documentation from .jsp pages.

PayPal Sets Up Safety Net. Up to $500.

Man denies RIAA charges of Latin music love . J. Lo means nothing to me.

eDonkey rides like the wind in P2P protocol races. Where did Gnutella go?

Oracle seeks EU approval on buyout. Tenacious O.

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Sun Boosts Mobile Java Options. A new program to boost the development of mobile Java services and new partnerships.

19-inch LCD monitor shootout. Three models from LG, three from Sony, two from Samsung, two from Iiyama, and one from NEC.

Matt — Skinning your applications and Apache+Tomcat on RH9.

Janne — Ego Stroking and Geek Envy.

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Diego — rss autodiscovery, take 3 and google's lack of manners.

Zhang — Exceptions Is Harmful (?) NOT!

Ben — Errors & exceptions.

Charles — Taking Exception to Joel Spolsky and Google, Weblogs, and the End of the World.

Blog noise achieves Google KO. Can we rescue our search engine from the wiki-fiddlers?

Seyed — Sun Strategy: "Monetize" Java.

Niel — Java Bounty at Boone's.

Steve — Open Source Impasse.

Simon — Learning to use Floats.

France to roll out Wi-Fi on high-speed train lines. Internet access à grand vitesse.

Frank — Looking for a job.

Joshua — How do kids program today?

Apple to Webcast quarterly results on Wednesday. FY 03 fourth quarter results.

Martin — Three Finally Get A Clue — In Denmark.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Matt — Rawdog 1.5 and Popdex Top 100.

Russ — Weblogs and Jub Hunting.

Dave — J. Rolling handbook.

Michael — Bjarne Stroustrup Artima.com Interview, Part 1.

Kumar — J2SE: 10 References for 1.4.X GC.

Simon — NeoOffice/J 0.7 Released.

webMethods to acquire The Mind Electric. webMethods GLUE.

Mark — New Zealanders Get Wi-Fi with Fuel. It's like to see Wi-Fi at Safeway and 7-Eleven in the US.

Wendong — MIDP 2.0 Phones.

Leslie — Quick links.

Jeffrey — First Look at ASP.NET 2.0.

Sam — FDML.

Chuq — Perl DBD on MacOS X 10.3.

Charles — Money Laundering.

Microsoft releases Office developer tools. Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office System.

Commons HttpClient 2.0 Release Candidate 2. This release consists primarily of bug fixes and will hopefully be the last RC release.

Motorola Expands Into Flat-Screen TV Business. Deal with Hong Kong firm to make flat-screen televisions and computer displays.

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Christoph — Keyring Wifi finder.

JTLT 0.4, a templating system for Java.

Mozilla Charts an Independent Course. The open-source project, after being split from Netscape, now takes aim at attracting end users and enterprise customers.

Daniel — Making things right.

JRoller.com RSS feeds no longer use <link/> tags, they only use <gid/>. I don't know about you, but it seriously messes up my aggregator.

Simon — Mac OS X OpenOffice.org.

Instant Tech Support. Keith was having problems with clevercactus. I hooked him with Diego on IRC. They're hammering it right now.

TI Behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Convergence.

Simon — Integrating Tomcat and Apache on Mac OS X.

Study: Yes, spam's a problem. Category: Duh!

Cameron — Java Threads: The Hand-Off.

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Gaim 0.71 is Out: More Than Y! Connectivity.

Carlos — The Mind Electric takes over WebMethods.

Diego — calendar questions.

Cingular Launches MMS. Unlimited MMS for $2.99 per month, until January.

Rusty — EJBCA 2.1 and JCalendar 0.5.

Daniel — Subclipse 0.8.1 Released.

Jon — XMLFace 1.0 Beta 1 released.

Adrian — AntClipse reloaded.

Rick — MusicMatch Radio service is worth it.

Michael — JSPWiki and SnipSnap compared.

Brian — Apache OJB Unit of Work Tutorial.

Simon — Happy Birthday!

Bill — OpenOffice.org XML Essentials.

A Mac OS X 10.2.8 troubleshooting tip. Vicki has been experiencing similar problems with her iMac. I'm going to try to downgrade the PowerManagement bundle as suggested.

Acer's Ferrari laptop. Limited edition Ferrari-styled laptop from Acer.

HP's new wireless Pocket PCs. h4150 and h4350.

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Java SOS 3.60, a Java servlets office suite.

Anil — Microsoft announces mobile webservices.

Student CD piracy lawsuit dropped. A software company drops a threat to sue a US student who showed how to bypass anti-piracy music technology.

Dave — Do Mobile Services.

Dell backs away from smartphone plans. Leaves market to Nokia.

Frank — Palm OS 5.2.1 Second Edition.

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Haystack - The Universal Information Client.

JiXB, a framework for binding XML data to Java objects.

Diego — matrix (over)loaded.

Matt @ Camp Foo:

• Bluetooth Security
• AMD Opteron/Athlon XP/Athlon FX Presentation
• Rendezvous Snapshot
• Using Wi-Fi at McDonald's
• Getting ready to hop on the plane

Russ — Arrived, Morning in California and Ode to the Kreme.

Review: The Z600 is damn near perfect.

Judge Gives Leg Up to Internet Calls. A decision that Minnesota should leave Internet phone businesses unregulated does not put the issue to rest.

Arjun — JAR Hell.

Dave — SAX has recently switched over to the SourceFor…

Matt — OS X Rocks, but it sucks too.

Dave — Wanna cheap iPod?

Mike — Breaking FOO Camp.

Erik — Cigar Fraud.

Tim — Foo Camp Notes.

Sam — A slice of foo.

Chuq — Foo Camp.

Sharp launches 3D notebook. Actius RD3D.

mIRC DCC Exploit. /ignore -wd *

We went to see Kill Bill on Saturday. It opened at No. 1.

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We're going to go see Kill Bill this afternoon.

Matt — Foo Camp Links: Saturday, Social Software and my camp site.

Jesus — Boolean.getBoolean not what you think it is.

Simon — Cool Tools - jEdit.

Werner — Eclipse 3.0 M4 : new and noteworthy.

Dan — 5 Million Blogs, But Lots of Abandonment.

Dan — What the heck is: A string.

Frans — JavaBlog.com must be Open Source.

Matt — A day of upgrades.

Robert — Agile Methods. The bottom Line.

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I've registered the Google Tag Library on Freshmeat.

Jim — Believers in advertising.

Matt — Rendezvous at Camp Foo.

Mark — Microsoft, ECMA Seek C++ and CLI Binding and IntelliJ IDEA 4.0 New Features.

Leslie — Quick links.

Charles — Why Sculley's Wrong About Apple and Intel.

Chris — Decent free Windows FTP client.

JavaBot TNG 0.12, a Java IRC bot.

Chris — Trying out compilers.

Student sued after revealing CD copying secret. That darn Shift key.

Diego — psion-ce.

T9 for the P800 is now availabe. eZiTap has released T9 for the P800.

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Carlos — Temporal Anomalies In Movies Explained.

Russ — Webcamming.

Andreas — jUnit to the Rescue.

Matt — I'm outta here. Nice tip.

Hani — Goodbye freeroller.

Kevin — Microsoft Monopoly Represents National Security Risk.

PayPal launches in the UK. Local delivery companies and a seller protection service included.

Keith — Joel Spolsky on Unicode and Character Sets.

Ted — Eclipse 3.0M4 is out.

[@908]

Tech Talk with John Crupi. The author of Core J2EE Patterns discusses the new patterns in his book and how he and his team re-architected eBay 3.0.

Diego — forget the typewriter, fire up those modems.

Daniel — Competition Announced.

Noah — The HotSpot Haven - A New Wi-Fi Directory!!

Guy — Wireless Widgets - a whole exhibition, in Las Vegas Oct 22.

Guillermo — Worker blogs raising concerns?

Debashish — Baby steps onto J2ME.

Alan — Tips for Java Guerrilla Warfare #4.

Simon — Firebird URL shortcut tips.

Xrefactory 1.6.4, a refactoring browser for Emacs, XEmacs, and jEdit.

Report: Bluetooth has security gaps.

First 14.1-inch Tablet PC. Acer's C300 convertible-style Tablet PC.

[@538]

I've just released version 1.0 of the Google Tag Library. Thanks to Matt, Russ, Jim and Diego for the assistance. If you have any questions, please join the mailing list.

[@522]

IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4, a set of Java classes and APIs with five sample applications.

Matt — To San Francisco.

Michael — From the Dumb Fucks Dept.

Leslie — Quick links.

Bill — Oh, we can hope, can't we?

ReadRadix — Brief hands-on review of the Sony PSX.

Kevin — JAXRPC RI Headers and mustUnderstand.

T-Mobile delays the Treo 600. November 24th.

No Napster 2.0 for the iPod. WMA, not MP3.

Google bug blocks thousands of sites. Choking on spam, noise – Bots are 'ready to give up'.

Why 'Download.com' isn't what it appears to be. The Reg fell for it.

The Most Dangerous Windows And Linux Security Threats. Fourth annual list.

[@295]

Erik's Pulse has been published.

Carlos — Open Source Portal Servers Written in Java.

Russ — Leaving on a Jet Plane. The boy wonder comes back to town. ;-) 

Toshiba Announces 3 New PDAs. The Genio 550 DT, Genio 550 CT and Genio 550 GT.

Glen — Forget PHP, JSTL is *so* productive.

Matt — Precompile your JSPs for Tomcat 4.x.

Brent — Mac OS X Innovators Special Presentation.

Christoph — Dell Inspiron 8600 hacks.

Review: Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools .

PDA images with J2ME. How to download and display images.

Advanced DAO Programming. Learn techniques for building better DAOs.

JAR Files Revealed. Explore the power of the JAR file format.

[@944]

Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows. Next Thursday.

Siemens Handset Sales Skyrocket. Up 44%.

Will — The Future of Native Interfaces.

Jayson — Blarg #1: Are JSP Still Relevant?

Samsung's Napster MP3 player. YP-910GS.

We discover that you can't use a wireless mouse on an airplane. BS with a capital B.

US nabs teen hacker in securities fraud scheme. A 19-year-old who allegedly took control of an investor's brokerage account using a Trojan.

Parents Sue School Over Wireless Network. Worried that exposure to the network's radio waves could harm their children.

Opera for Windows 7.21 Release Candidate 4 (w/out Java) Released.

New iPod Commercial Airs On TV. I've seen it a few times already.

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JDBC and XML usage report. What JDBC 3.0 features matter?

Goolge Bolsters Ad Tools. Added three new features to AdWords.

Nokia announces Series 60 based 3660, 3620. No surprise here.

Samsung Delays Release of SGH-i500 Palm-Based PDA Phone in US. But why?

Sam — My Article on OnJava.com.

Laszlo — First release of jFreeSafe.

Matthew — XRampSSL.com for Cheap SSL Certificates - Opinions? Any Recommended SSL Providers?

Dan — Why I hate C, reason #4,348.

JRefactory 2.8.9, a refactoring/pretty printer tool.

vCard4J 1.1.1, a toolkit to manipulate vCards (RFC 2426) in Java.

JFtp 1.38, a Java-based FTP client.

Intuit Apologizes For TurboTax Debacle. Bad activation scheme.

EMusic buyer to kill off unlimited download offer. "EMusic will remain the only service providing customers the flexibility and portability that comes with the open MP3 format."

Kevin — Suing your customers is bad.

Napster launches, minus the revolution. So yesterday.

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I'm planning on releasing the first public version of the Google Tag Library later on today.

Will — Mac OS X JNI Revisited.

Russ — Mobile Innovation.

Apple should have used Intel chips, Sculley says.

Matt — ZeroConf Under Linux.

Russ — OS as a Subscription Service.

Leslie — Quick links.

Ted — I'm jealous…

Opera for Windows without Java 7.21 Release Candidate 3 Released.

Orange, Smart launch Bluetooth car. I believe the new SAAB has BT built-in.

Bill Gates answers cop's child porn plea. Helping cops do their jobs.

Frank — WIRELESS magazine.

Review: Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book. Putting Stan Lee in his place.

Diego — feedster search plugin for Mozilla Firebird.

Smart Playlists.com launches for Apple iTunes. A new Web site has launched which focuses on Apple's iTunes Smart Playlists…