Archive for October, 2005

Oracle Database 4 free!!!

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is a no-frills edition of the proven Oracle Database 10g product. Its completely free of charge, supports up to 4GB of user data and runs on a single processor and can use a maximum of 1GB memory. Database administration is done via browser interface and applications can be developed using standard interfaces such as SQL, JDBC, ODP.NET, or using Oracles unique HTML DB feature.

  • Free to download, develop, and deploy
  • Free to embed in ISV software and hardware products
  • Supported via a free, online community forum Fully upgradeable to Oracle Database 10
  • Standard Edition One, Standard Edition, and Enterprise Editions.

Download Factsheet
Source: Oracle, Heise

This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S

ok,ok, what this means is easy, but in in other cases the Urban Dictionary may help!

Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. Define your world.



Source: Urban Dictionary

Map FTP as disk with NetDrive!

Ever wanted to have direct access to your FTP Server through a windows drive? Novells NetDrive makes this possible, an this absolutly free! NetDrive enables you to map a FTP, WebDav,… to a windows drive, and update all Files every time you save them!

Netdrive Windows Explorer Integration

There are several sources on the web to get the tool, most of them with a short instruction:

Source: Novell.com

IBM WebSphere® light 4 free

In near future IBM will publish

a new addition to the IBM WebSphere Application Server family.

The IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition is a J2EE based Aplication Server built on the OpenSource Projct Apache Geronimo.

The product is

designed to help you accelerate your development and deployment efforts by offering technology that is quick, easy to download, and free to use!

Source: IBM, Heise

TV to GO

…ok, I do not really often watch TV, because in most cases there are the wrong shows at the right time or vice versa, but nevertheless I want to have something like the Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS from Terratec. TV analog or via DVB-T in your pocket as USB Stick with all the cool features like time shift…

anywhere, at any time on any device (with USB 2.0 capability) ;o)

Source: Terratec

Mod your OpenOffice!

Just a few day´s after the OpenOffice 2.0 Release, I found the Java UNO Wrapper Nice Office Access from ubion.ORS! They describe their solution as:

  • leichtgewichtige UNO Wrapper API für viele UNO Interfaces
  • Zugriff auf UNO Interfaces aus Wrapper Objekten
  • Höherwertige Funktionen für bekannte Anwendungsfälle
  • released under LGPL Lizenz


Screenshot Office Integration Editor Plugin

Additionally they offer an Office Integration Editor Plugin for Eclipse! Which offers Wizards and enables the access of OO Documents during the Development.

Office Integration Editor Plugin

Source: ubion.ORS, Heise

Cool Grid Widget for Websites

Just a few seconds ago I found this very cool Javascript based Widget for Gridviews from ActiveWidgets, it´s released under GPL! I like the look and feel, maybe I will integrate it in WordPress! ;o)
ActiveWidgets Grid 1.0
Source: ActiveWidgets