Resource Links
Dotnet podcast and Video cast
www.dotnetrocks.com
www.dnrtv.com

Free PDF Printer driver for Windows
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See

Excellent introduction to what can be achived with the virtualization .
Great demo of native windows application ( IE,outlook )working along with the mac apps.

Google Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project
Introducing Android




Androidology - Part 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview


Androidology - Part 2 of 3 - Application Lifecycle



Androidology - Part 3 of 3 - APIs

Using google translator server in Java application .
Download translator jar from google
http://google-api-translate-java.googlecode.com/files/google-api-translate-java-0.23.jar

Compile the program javac -cp google-api-translate-java-0.23.jar GoogleTranslateTest.java

Run the application ( Requires internet connection):

java -cp google-api-translate-java-0.23.jar;. GoogleTranslateTest

If you your machine is behind proxy server
java -DproxySet=true -Dhttp.proxyHost=ip -DproxyPort=port -cp google-api-translate-java-0.23.jar;. GoogleTranslateTest

import com.google.api.translate.Language;
import com.google.api.translate.Translate;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class GoogleTranslateTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      while(true)
      {
          try {
              System.out.println("Enter any english word ( enter quit to exit): ");
              String englishText = GoogleTranslateTest.getConsoleReader().readLine();
              if ( englishText.equalsIgnoreCase("quit")) {
                  break;
              }
            
              String translatedText = Translate.translate(englishText, Language.ENGLISH, Language.FRENCH);
              //JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, String.format("English:%1$-20s  French: %2$-30s ",englishText,translatedText ));
              System.out.println(String.format("English:%1$-20s  French: %2$-30s ",englishText,translatedText ));
        } catch (Exception ex) {
          ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
  }

  public static BufferedReader getConsoleReader() {
        return new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( System.in));
    }
}

Connecting to URL from behind a proxy server
Use java proxy server jvm arguments to connect to internet
These properties are "http.proxyHost" and "http.proxyPort".
-DproxySet=true -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxyIP -DproxyPort=port
Sample usage

java -DproxySet=true -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxyIP -DproxyPort=port

Usefull sites for c++ users http://www.robertnz.net/cpp_site.html