Eventually, Google jumped into on-line media market. They also  in CES. DRM is a must for this kind of service. Google claimed that they have many media partners. Anyway, this is not a free service! You have to pay for what you want.

Till now, Google Video has been about watching videos and clips online, which is really convenient for videos . But wouldn’t it be awesome to watch that episode of that you missed when even your trusty DVR failed you? This is one reason we’ve launched the Google Video store, where you can rent or buy from such well-known media partners as , the , The , and .

ThinkCAP is an internet application framework with AJAX for J2EE platform. It utilizes prototype.js and script.aculo.us like Ruby on Rails do.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX, a technique for creating interactive Web applications, has exploded onto the Web development scene, gaining popularity so quickly that some developers are lagging behind in their skills. To address the need for faster AJAX development, lots of companies and developer communities are coming up with Rapid Application Development (RAD) platforms for AJAX. One of those platforms, ThinkCAP JX Framework, combines more than two dozen open source libraries, and the "framework" portion of the application has just been released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
NewsForge | ThinkCAP goes open source

Wow! What’s a funny thing? Do you ever think how a optical mouse works? Yes! You can turn your mouse into some kind of scanner or camera because it must have a optical sensor (mostly CCD).

People get bored sometimes, and when I get bored I sometimes open up stuff to find out what makes it tick. One time, I did this with an old optical mouse. Well, a mouse only has 2 chips inside: the optical sensor and a chip for the usb/ps2-interfacing. I looked up the datasheet of the optical sensor (which is an ADNS2610) and it told me the sensor has a tiny 18x18 CCD, which can be read out using the serial port (the one which normally interfaces to the PS2/USB-chip).
Optical Mouse cam

Eventually, the rumour about  aka  has an answer from . It turns out that Google has just released  last night. What is Google Pack? Actually, it is a collection of desktop software developed by Google and companions. For Google itself, they produces 5 softwares listed below.

In addition, Mozilla, Symantec, Lavasoft, and Adobe also joined this campaign.

Actually, I have installed most softwares listed above except only Norton, Ad-Aware, and Google Pack Screensaver. The great advantage of Google Pack is . Actually, it seems to clearly show that Google plays on Desktop War in different way comparing to . Instead of Konfabulator-like APIs, Google offers low-level APIs. I guess that  could be able to run on Google Sidebar someday.

If you use WordPress 2.00 then please be aware of the following problem with new WordPress and Post2Blog that caused by error in WordPress: 

WordPress extended text entry tag not working in posts if you add new post using external application such as Post2Blog. This is can be fixed

Bytescout Software Blog » Blog Archive » WordPress 2.00 bug-fix

SDN recently released 2 Sneak Preview products.

1. SAP NetWeaver 04 SP15 Full Java Edition
2. SAP NetWeaver 04s Full ABAP Edition (with Web Dynpro for ABAP)

For one interesting to try them out, just simply go to SDN at Download Center or directly link at here.

I wrote an installation guide for SP11 and here; however, I don’t have much time to try SP15 yet. Fortunately, someone wrote a comprehensive installation guide for SP15 already in PDF format.