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Download of the Week
Boulderdash
Remember Boulderdash from the old Commodore 64 days? Here it is as an applet, but without the scroll! Grab the diamonds, but avoid the falling rocks and swarming fireflies! Ten levels of excitement with full instructions on how to create additional levels! Source included!
The JavaBoutique Top 15:
1. APMenu
2. Mdrain
3. Flame
4. NavDeluxe
5. Lake
6. NetMenu
7. PopupVideo
8. Encyclo
9. Snow
10. ABCMenuMan
11. Fader
12. TextScroll
13. SecretPass
14. NavPop
15. MShow
Want more? Check out our Top 100!
Time to Purchase Hardware
It's that time of month again, time to sit down with a list of our favorite products, and put together our monthly HardwareCentral Buyer's Guide.
Why Low Key PR is Not an Oxymoron
The issue of being "low key" plays to some of the criticism that the technology PR industry has faced recently, specifically in the way many dot-com PR people interact with journalists.
The Line is Blurring
There have been several announcements this week that deal with integrating PDA features with mobile phones. Here are some of the issues to think about as these devices begin to fill store shelves.
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Astronomy at Work
GeoAstro Applet Collection
Collection of interactive Java applets that display the position of sun and moon on the horizon for any date, time and location, and on a world map with day and night regions. The times of rise and setting, the declination, the Greenwich hour angle and the equation of time are computed.
Navigate the Venusian Surface using Java
The Digital Interactive Venus Atlas (DIVA) provides a Java-based interface to the image archive from NASA's Magellan mission to Venus by means of an interactive user-navigable radar map of the Venusian surface.
Control the Hubble!
NASA and the Hubble team have made a public demonstration available so you can run the Java-based Control Center System environment. This demo provides a glimpse of the data that scientists utilize in their work with the Hubble.
Celestial Sphere: The Web's Virtual Planetarium
If you're into astronomy, or just want to see what the stars and constellations look like from any particular coordinates, you simply must check out this outstanding applet.
Keep an Eye on Santa
From NASA Now you can use the same technology which keeps track of the satellites to keep tabs on where Santa Claus is at any given moment!
Follow the Paths of the Satellites
From NASA J-Track lets you choose from a fairly large list of satellites, and gets you started by selecting a few for you. Just select the category of satellites you are interested in, or if you are really adventurous, try J-Track 3D.
Track the Space Shuttle
From NASA This is NASA's most popular J-Track page which is used to track Mir and the Space Shuttle. Hubble, UARS, and COBE are here as well.
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