André L. S.

New Google’s image search system. Amazing!

André — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:18:19 +0000

Google always look for inovate your services. With image search system wasn't different. Who live in Brazil and access the services through .com.br can not enjoy the new interface. The imagens aren't disposed in tabular format, now them are "unorganized", to provide an easy visual identification and to fit in all user screen. The image [...]

Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 1 now with achievements

André — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:38:40 +0000

Now with Steam being supported by Macs, some games was migrated and with improvements. These improvements was replicated in copies for Windows too. Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 1 are games that have been affected. The achievements, that were previously exclusive for Half-Life 2: Episode 2, are available in HL2 and HL2: Episode 1 [...]

Installing multi-language support in Windows 7 Professional and Home Premium editions

André — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:52:01 +0000

Multi-language support is native in Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate editions, but, following this tutorial you be able to alternate entire many languages in Professional and Home Premium editions. First you'll need of Vistalizator. This application enable to install muti-language support in all Windows 7 editions and, how it's portable, you don't need install it. [...]

Solving problems with removal of the external HD in Windows 7

André — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:26:41 +0000

Some times I had problems when disconnected my external HD using Windows' s Removal Device Assistant, the most frequently was "This device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that...". This message appeared even with all programs closed. After checked Windows settings, process and services, I noticed that the problem was in service [...]

Enabling Windows Media Player bar in Windows 7 taskbar

André — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:14:40 +0000

Unfortunately Windows Media Player 12, already installed with Windows 7, has no support to minimize as toolbar in the taskbar. To enable this bar, just need copy a file from Windows Media Player for Windows Vista. Now I will show how do this: 1. You will need of a dll called wmpband.dll, that come with [...]

Setting up internet access through proxy server

André — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:54:22 +0000

Today I had a trouble in my workplace when a client application, running through a terminal (DOS prompt), not reach the server hosted in the internet, this is because the company where I work use proxy. After some tries I found two solutions to solve my access problem: first was pass as Java parameters the [...]

Amarok’s playlist stop after play one music

André — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:42:58 +0000

Recently I had a problem like others Amarok's 2.1.1 users: It play only one music and stop. To resolve this: Close Amarok, delete the file ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/current.xspf and then restart Amarok. Least worked to me and I hope that works for you too! Until next!!

Creating transparent and shaped windows using Java Swing/AWT

André — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:28:58 +0000

The Java AWT offer various possibilities about window manipulation. Today I'll talk about two possibilities using class AWTUtilities. Building a transparent window To make a Window (JFrame, JDialog ...) with alpha effect, you should invoke the method AWTUtilities.setWindowOpacity. This method parameters are: the window to apply transparency and transparency degree, that can be between 0 [...]

Saving files in BLOB table column of a data base

André — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:46:06 +0000

To insert a file, is it in any format, you need call the method setBinaryStream, implemented by PreparedStatement. PreparedStatemente.setBinaryStream(int index, Inputstream is, int length); In sample, we set a table called FILEthat contains BLOB column called BIN. //Normal connection, as any JDBC connection Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"); Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@<IP>:<PORT>:<SID>","<USER>","<PASSWORD>"); //Reading the file and retrieving an InputStream [...]

Retrieving an Oracle cursor in Java

André — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:22:32 +0000

Many people come here looking for one way to retrieve cursors of Oracle procedures in Java. To them, I've here are a tutorial showing how to do this. To retrieve the cursor you should declare him how a REF CURSOR in Package spec. --Creating the REF CURSOR type type g_cursor is ref cursor; In both, [...]