“When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows,people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free.”
-Linus Torvalds

Eclipse – an open development platform (IDE) has released a newer version called Eclipse Ganymede.

You can download it from the official eclipse website www.eclipse.org.

Protocol Buffers are the data interchange formats used by Google for its internal purpose,now they have decided to release it to the external world.

In the official google blog,they have said that the protocol buffers will be much faster and less expensive than XML.

You can give a try by downloading the source code from google code.

The website www.neatorama.com have tried to give a pictorial representation to the amount of data which may be exchanged between google and Viacom in the ongoing legal lawsuite.

“Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It’s also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing “

hey wait wait wait… before you could comment let me tell you one thing,this was not my definition for java.. its the “official definition”,I mean its taken form the official site java.com.. !!!!!

take a look – java.com

The grand finale of the imagine cup started by Microsoft will be held at Paris on July 3-8.More than 200,000 participants competed in eight different categories.

The final and official download count of Firefox 3.0 is 8,002,530 with this huge number it made an entry into the Guiness Book of Records.

“The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen” said Marketing head Paul Kim.

Even though the server faced some problem on the download day,Firefox managed to reach this magical figure,with the help of people from 25 countries.

Adobe has announced school innovation awards for the students studying in US and Canada.

The theme given by the them is

“My Community — My Planet — My 21st Century “

high school students in grade 9-12 can participate,and the most important thing is that Lenova is going to sponser laptops for the winners.

Even the flyers released for this competition is interesting (you can view it here http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/K-12-Innovation-Award-flyer.pdf) I hope this contest will be interesting and bring more interest for animation and design among school children.