Hauppauge have released some software called ‘Wing’ that when coupled with one of their TV capture/tuner video cards for your PC allows you to record video content directly onto your Video iPod or PSP. Very cool. (ALthough wouldn’t it be quicker just to record it to your PC and then transfer the file over?)
Annual Wired Vaporware Award – taking nominations
Wired News are taking nominations for their annual Vaporware awards – check the article on their site.
Top of my list would be:
- Where is Windows Longhorn/Vista? I know it’s due next year, but wasn’t originally due to ship at least 2 years ago?
- Also, on the same theme – where is WinFS, the promised new file system for Windows that was to be based ontop of a SQL engine (SQLServer?), to replace the legacy DOS-based filesystem? It was due to be a core part of Longhorn/Vista, but stories in the press say that it will be shipped at a later point as an add on to Vista. That probably means not at all.
- Microsoft Hailstorm? The ditributed services and applications initiative failed once before, but now it’s coming back as another web-delivered suite of apps? Do people really want office apps delivered as pay-as-you-go or subscription based web-apps? I don’t think so.
Synthetica Look n Feel for Swing
If you are looking for an awesome look n feel for Swing, the Synthetica LNF is very impressive – check out the screenshots.
Lightweight O/R mapping with Amber
Norbert Ehreke introduces a lightweight O/R mapping framework called Amber on the OnJava.com site.
He walks through a code example of mapping objects to tables using Java 5 annotations together with Amber.
Incidentally, Hibernate3 also supports mapping using Annotations as part of the implementation of the EJB3.0 Entity Bean spec – see on the Hibernate site.