Duke Surfing Screensaver

I have never seen this kind of screensaver from Sun before. Although not fabulous, like 3D effects and real background sounds as many popular screensavers, it opened Java developers a new window in the development fields, I think. You can download it from Java.com, which just need you to answer three simple questions like normal registration in the common BBS.

Wish to enjoy it!

Using NewsGator to public the Blogs through email client--Microsoft Outlook

This is great news for me, a newbie to RSS technology. Through searching the web, though there are many RSS readers available nowadays, after testing I found that two readers fitting me well, one is free RSS Reader, the other is NewsGator, which is not free of charge, but you can find the cracker on the web to crack it to make it work normally. I prefer the first one because it is not only simple but also flexible. Many websites introducing the basic knowledge of RSS advise the users the most common and popular RSS reader, SharpReader. But I think the users should not limit their eyes only on this kind of introduction, but look for more and appropriate readers fit yourself well.

Every reader has its own advantages. RSS Reader can import and export the XML format for your feeds, and also provides you a directory storing the business, news, technology, science, health, and many other kinds of feeds. NewsGator is run embedded in the Microsoft Outlook. It provides many plug-ins which will extend the functions of this tool. You can obtain and download them directly from the website of NewsGator. I use one of them, Blogger plug-in, which will make the users of Blogger.com write, edit and publish their blogs in the Microsoft Outlook offline or online. It is very convenient! I selected NewsGator actually just because of this advantage of NewsGator. Though NewsGator also provide the function of import and export, the format is very particular, not common like that of RSS Reader. I think that this will be the obstacle of the NewsGator’s development in the future unless this format will become the standard of this field used by most of the RSS reader.

In summary, I think that the primary principle of selection of RSS readers is you-feel-comfortable-about-its-functions-and-interface. It is really difficult to say which RSS reader is the best. But we can find easily by the investigations which reader is the most popular! This site will provide you the popular RSS readers.

This blog is edited and published using NewsGator in the Microsoft Outlook.

Learn the Ontology from the View of the Ontology Tools

Ontology is used to organize and construct the concepts and information-pieces in a specific domain in a formally logical way designed for machine processing. It has been one more years since I first touched the Ontology when I was doing my Master project and dissertation. I still found that there are many aspects about the ontology and its applications underlying the popular and critical industries. This paper on the XML.COM enlightened me that there are still many unknown corners to me in the Ontology, which drives me to discove more through daily pracitce. In the mean time, I also felt pressure suddenly pushed on me for my oncoming PhD study in the Ontology Management, because lack of deep understanding of ontology made me upset.

Back to the paper, although it investigated the current ontology tools in the market, it also gave out a clear viewpoints of the ontology which made me remeet the concept of the ontology. I have mentioned the ontology to my peers who are doing the relevant works in the IT industries in China. It is a pity that they seldom know this concept currently. Compared to the situations of 5 years ago, ontology is not developed limitedly in the academical circles. It has entered into the many fields of IT industries, such as web search services, web portals, web services, e-commerce, and other industries, such as health care, intelligence agent. Nearly everyday we will use Google or Yahoo! Do you really know them? They are actually using the ontology-base framework to organize and manage the contents on the web. Directories in the Yahoo! is a good example of structure to show how the ontology to organize the contents on the web.

Surprisingly, In April of this year, Gartner, the market research firm, identified taxonomies/ontologies as one of the leading IT technologies, ranking it third in its list of the top 10 technologies forecast for 2005. That is a great news! There will be more and more applications based on the ontology coming up in the following years!

Shortcut to Routine Life on the Keyborad

I always notice that many people use their keyboard on the hand to nevigate the Windows fluently, smoothly, and even magically. That is cool, isn't it? There are many shortcuts hidden in our keyborad. I seldom dig them out, or remember them for the use, but still use some complicated actions to perform the tasks which can be done easily by one-action shortcut. Windows Keyboard Shortcuts, althought just a glance of the shortcuts on the keyboard, I think, but these one-action clicks will satisfy our routine daily life definitely!