Romain Guy, Richard Bair, Joshua Marinacci & some other swing & java2d programmers have all been working hard towards this excellent application i just found out about today, only screenshots are available at the moment, however these screenshots are enough to make me want it 
Go check it out, it looks like a photo management application that allows you to store location information against the photo, the locations are then hooked with google maps and well.. yeah go look 
Tag Archives: Software
GPG, Thunderbird & Outlook
I started to get a tad paraniod the other day (those of you who know me are probably laughing your buttholes off, but thats ok. Annnyway, i decided to implement GPG into my email so i could send stuff to and from work without having prying eyes. Thunderbird was quite easy to implement and works VERY well, all the details and the plugin for thunderbird can be found at http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Unfortunately at home, i have to use outlook, most people would normally have to deal with it the other way around, but at work we use Thunderbird and at home I need to use Outlook so that i can sync appointments, etc. with my PDA. All the details on how to go about setting up GPG for use with outlook is available at http://www.gpg4win.org/.
NTFS Junctioning (Symbolic Links for 2K/XP)
Something i think that is not so widely known is that NTFS supports symbolic-linking, it’s called “Junctioning” theres a 3-rd party app to do it called Junction (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html) or the win2k Resource Kit comes with linkd.
Some more info from MS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q205524
Microsoft Link regarding doing it in XP
ouch! link buggered in wordpress upgrade
Matisse, the Netbeans GUI Builder
Matisse, the new gui builder in the development builds of Netbeans 4.2 seems to gaining a big following of people who would normally say “GUI Editor sux, code it by hand or don’t bother”. I’m one of those people and i’ll start by saying, i’m so god damn impressed something this good is being given away for free for me to use, even if (like now) i’m dodging exceptions to do my work.
I’m so impressed with the way the new GUI Builder works I was just starting to re-do all my panels for my current project in the builder, then i heard some not so joyous things. Sun isnt guarenteeing the file format is going to work in 4.2, moreso, someone basically said that 4.2 (non-dev) WOULD NOT load forms designed in 4.2dev. So I guess for now i’m stuck piss-farting around with the editor and waiting patiently for 4.2 to cop a full release.
Oh yeah.. patience? don’t have any.. i want to use it now!!
Icons.. Icons.. ICONS!
I’ve been searching for days now for a decent icon set that covers everything i require (note: this isnt that much). I’ve checked out the open-office.org icon set, i’ve checked out the eclipse icon set, kde, gnome.. u name it i’ve checked it. Now im not seeing these icon sets dont cut it, because they do.. they’re quite good actually, but well.. I just cant bare to look at my application knowing it could look ten times better if only i could justify $150US to buy some of the awesome sets that are out there.
So anyway.. I think im going to attempt to make my own icons, i cant justify the $$$’s these people are asking for their icons, even if it is kind of a reasonable price, i just dont have that kind of money.
If anyone could point me in the direction of something i’ve missed in icon land it’d be appreciated. I’m deffinately feeling the sets from glyFX, a perth based company, but i dont wanna shell out for those packs.