Wait cursor for Windows Mobile

Wait cursor � Mobiledeveloper: "Wait cursor

Getting the nice colorful system-is-busy hourglass (or whatever it is) to appear is extremely simple:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor;"

YouTube Architecture | High Scalability

YouTube Architecture | High Scalability: "YouTube grew incredibly fast, to over 100 million video views per day, with only a handful of people responsible for scaling the site. How did they manage to deliver all that video to all those users? And how have they evolved since being acquired by Google?"

iPhone skin for Windows Mobile Phones

Intellectual Property Law and legal issues of computers and telecommunications � Blog Archive: "there is a software which emulates some menu features of the future Apple’s iPhone."

Optimizing your MySQL Application

Optimizing your MySQL Application: "Optimizing your MySQL Application
By Mike Sullivan

So you’ve finished reading Kevin Yank’s article Building a Database-Driven Web Site Using PHP and MySQL [1], and you’re happily databasing your site, when it starts to slow down. You need to get your site zipping along again before your host threatens to kick you off for almost killing their server. How do you do this? Enter: MySQL’s internal turbo-charger, indexes."

Stealther :: Firefox Add-ons

Stealther :: Firefox Add-ons: "If there are times you want to surf the web without leaving a trace in your local computer, then this is the right extension for you. What it does is temporarily disable the following:
- Browsing History (also in Address bar)
- Cookies
- Downloaded Files History
- Disk Cache
- Saved Form Information
- Sending of ReferrerHeader
- Recently Closed Tabs list"

SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search - Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share.

SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search - Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share.

Playable music/video search

Remlap Software - Clickster (mp3 search and download)

Remlap Software - Clickster (mp3 search and download): "Clickster 1.50 (FREEWARE)

music for nothin' and your tracks for free

Clickster is the essential application for every lover of music. Clickster enables you to easily search for and download mp3 files from the Internet in a totally legal and safe environment. Because Clickster sources mp3's which are hosted on web servers, you can expect download speeds which put P2P networks to shame. With currently over 30 million tracks available to download (and growing), we're certain Clickster will be able to locate the music you really want to listen to and there are no dead/broken links."

G2P Beta v0.2: Google helps me find the goods

G2P Beta v0.2: Google helps me find the goods: "What does G2P do?
-G2P (Google to Person) uses some crafty Google searches to help locate open directories or otherwise shared files. These searches are nothing secret (In fact, take a look at the results, so you can see how it is done. However, it is much easier to remember g2p.org than these complex searches. Really I put this site together to make it easier on me, and then shared it with you."

Introduction To Bash Shell Scripting (2004.11.06)

Introduction To Bash Shell Scripting (2004.11.06): "Introduction To Bash Shell Scripting
References

* Learning the Bash Shell, Cameron Newham & Bill Rosenblatt (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc)
* Linux in a Nutshell, Jessica Perry Hekman (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc)
* The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian W Kernigham & Rob Pike (Prenice Hall)
* Unix Power Tools, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Relly, & Mike Lookides (O'Reilly & Associates,Inc)
* Advance Bash Scripting Guide : http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html
Appendix B has some good Reference Cards"

Windows Mobile mp3tunes.com player

Oboe Player allows you to access your mp3tunes.com locker account from your mobile device. In other words, you need a valid locker account in mp3tunes.com. Additionally, you also need to have some music files already uploaded to your locker to use this program. You can get a locker account with unlimited space for free.

Get Oboe Player for Windows Mobile now!

Open In New Window Bookmarklet

Firefox is theee best web browser, which made the tabbed browsing a de-facto standard. However, sometimes you really want to pop out the current tab to a new window.

This bookmarklet does just that: open the current tab in a new browser window. Even the navigation history is copied so that you can keep navigating back and forth as if you were in the original tab.

Drag the following link to the Bookmark toolbar of your firefox!!!

Open In New Window

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is a date of great importance for the Mexican and Chicano communities. It marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Although the Mexican army was eventually defeated, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism. With this victory, Mexico demonstrated to the world that Mexico and all of Latin America were willing to defend themselves of any foreign intervention. Especially those from imperialist states bent on world conquest.

Cinco de Mayo's history has its roots in the French Occupation of Mexico. The French occupation took shape in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. With this war, Mexico entered a period of national crisis during the 1850's. Years of not only fighting the Americans but also a Civil War, had left Mexico devastated and bankrupt. On July 17, 1861, President Benito Juarez issued a moratorium in which all foreign debt payments would be suspended for a brief period of two years, with the promise that after this period, payments would resume.

The English, Spanish and French refused to allow president Juarez to do this, and instead decided to invade Mexico and get payments by whatever means necessary. The Spanish and English eventually withdrew, but the French refused to leave. Their intention was to create an Empire in Mexico under Napoleon III. Some have argued that the true French occupation was a response to growing American power and to the Monroe Doctrine (America for the Americans). Napoleon III believed that if the United States was allowed to prosper indiscriminately, it would eventually become a power in and of itself.

In 1862, the French army began its advance. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians defeated the French army in what came to be known as the "Batalla de Puebla" on the fifth of May.

In the United States, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to be known as simply "5 de Mayo" and unfortunately, many people wrongly equate it with Mexican Independence which was on September 16, 1810, nearly a fifty year difference!