Friday, June 24, 2005

MacPAR deLuxe

MacPAR deLuxe is a utility program that runs on Macintosh OSX. It is useful to you if you upload and download binary files to and from Internet newsgroups.

It's main functions are:
  • Ensure error-free transport of the data by means of so called "par" and "par2" files;
  • Unpack data from a RAR archive (most of the files in newsgroups are compressed with rar);
  • Automatically start an external program (such as Stuffit Expander) to process downloaded files.

NutCase MacBinary

NutCase MacBinary is a program to create and unpack MacBinary III ( .bin ) files.

UnRarX

UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Exadel Studio

Exadel Studio is a powerful free Web application development tool that extends Eclipse functionality allowing developers to fully utilize Rapid Application Development (RAD) techniques. This cost-effective, simplified solution includes important key features:

  • Project development support for JSF, Struts, Spring and Hibernate
  • Code assist and code folding for XML and JSP files
  • Full instant synchronization among editing modes
  • Flexible and customizable project template management
  • Design-time JSP preview

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Website Icon

Internet Explorer ("IE") 5.0 and above has a facility where, if someone bookmarks your website (ie puts it in their "Favorites" menu), it associates a particular icon with your website in the bookmark. It tries to obtain that icon by first requesting for "favicon.ico" from the directory of your web page. If it cannot find such a file, it will try to obtain it from the root directory of your website, failing which, it will simply use a default icon for the bookmark.

Mozilla, and probably also the new versions of Netscape (which are based on Mozilla), also have the ability to use the favicon.ico file, except that Mozilla also accepts the file in other graphics formats, such as the PNG format. It displays the "favicon.ico" in the location bar of the browser (the part that shows your website's URL). The latest version of Opera also loads the favicon.ico file into the address bar if available.

How to Create a "Favicon.ico" File

1. Create an image 16X16 pixels in size. Yes, it is really small and you can't really draw much in it. You should also restrict yourself to the standard Windows 16 colours, although I suspect that 256 colours will work fine.
If you like, you can also create a 32X32 pixel icon, which will be scaled to size for the Favorites menu and the location bar. You can even put both 16X16 and 32X32 pixel icons into the same icon file. Windows will use the former for its menus and the latter when the user opens up a folder that is set to display large icons. It's probably not really necessary to do this if you can't be bothered.
2. Save the image as an ICO file (named "favicon.ico", of course).
3. Upload it to your website. You don't need to upload one to every directory of your site if you don't want to waste space - simply put it in your root directory and IE will apparently locate it eventually. You can also upload it into your images directory, but you will need to modify your web pages if you do. See later in this article for more information on this.

Copied from http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml

Monday, June 13, 2005

Apache 2.0.54 on Tiger

Apache2 only returns first 74k on Tiger. To fix this problem,
curl -O http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/files/sendrecv.c.patch
patch < sendrecv.c.patch (when asked for the file name to patch, use srclib/apr/network_io/unix/sendrecv.c)
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/software/apache2
make
sudo make install

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

IKVM.NET

IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It includes the following components:

  • A Java Virtual Machine implemented in .NET
  • A .NET implementation of the Java class libraries
  • Tools that enable Java and .NET interoperability