I started using Trillian recently (second time). One of the features of AIM is Buddy Icon. I decided to add one. So I went to Cool Buddy and selected my icon: aim:BuddyIcon?src=https://www.coolbuddy.com/icon/animals/animals001.gif Unfortunately the link is designed to trigger AIM and not Trillian. Also Trillian doesn't offer any obvious way to add an icon from the web. I came up with two simple solutions, one elegant and the other by brute force.

Cell phones today carry wealth of personal data. They can even act as mobile credit cards. Unfortunately they can very easily be lost or stolen. Keith Cocita of Santa Cruz, California, US, has come up with a way to prevent valuable information kept on a cell phone from falling into the wrong hands.

GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

The highlights of JBuilder 2006 which is expected to release this week are: Peer-to-peer developer collaboration Chat similar to IM Integrated application life-cycle support covering

Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China, and Intradigm in Maryland, have reported the first successful use of Interfering RNA (siRNA) against the viral respiratory disease SARS, in primates (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038/nm1280).