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Things Every Developer Should Know

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:44:00 +0000

The nice people at Oreilly have complied a list of things every programmer/developer should know...

Check out "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know" page, read the titles and dig deeper when you have time.

Stages of a Photographer

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:41:00 +0000

image from http://i.imgur.com/b2feF.png

iphone exchange + google apps = jailbreak + multiexchange

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:09:00 +0000

I have been using my iPhone with my google Apps for calendar and email but i also wanted to use my work's exchange servers... While the iPhone works with exchange it only supports 1 exchange server...

if you have can jailbreak your phone then checkout MultiExcange app from the cydia store.. it is $0.99 and it works...

check it out... more info here

Installing Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu 9.10 - Full guide

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:58:00 +0000

The following is a step by step guide for installing Tomcat 6 on my Linode VPS Hosting running Ubuntu 9.10.

If you are like and and trying to use apt-get install tomcat6 and had issues running tomcat correctly this is how i fixed it...

Install Java 6

make sure you are running sun's java not openjdk by typing the following

root@krysto:~# java -version
java version "1.6.0_10"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-b33)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.0-b15, mixed mode, sharing)

if not then you will need to remove the open JDK by typing the following

apt-get remove openjdk-6-jre

Note: that out of the box Ubuntu will not let you install Sun's Java. You will need to add the multiverse package source.

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

then add the following lines to the file.

deb http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted
deb http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse

now you should be able to install java

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

your installed packages should look like

root@krysto:~# dpkg -l | grep java
rc ca-certificates-java              20090928                      Common CA certificates (JKS keystore)
ii  java-common                       0.30ubuntu5                   Base of all Java packages
ii  sun-java6-bin                     6-10-0ubuntu2                 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (ar
ii  sun-java6-jdk                     6-10-0ubuntu2                 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
ii  sun-java6-jre                     6-10-0ubuntu2

Installing Tomcat

if you installed tomcat using apt-get then type the following to remove it

apt-get remove tomcat6-admin tomcat6-user tomcat6-docs tomcat6-examples tomcat6

wget http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.20/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz
tar xvzf apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz
mv apache-tomcat-6.0.20 tomcat
mv tomcat /var/

vi ~/.bashrc

more soon...

Check out Google Talk Labs Edition

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0000

What is Google Talk, Labs Edition?

Google Talk, Labs Edition is an experimental release of the Google Talk client. It has many of the same great features as the Google Talk Gadget, including instant messaging, emoticons, and group chat. Google Talk, Labs Edition also comes with new desktop notifications from Calendar, Orkut, and Gmail.

Download now

Google Nexus One Phone Video

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:33:00 +0000

Google Nexus One
Uploaded by JournalduGeek. - Videos of the latest science discoveries and tech.

jailbreak iphone, not the new once... bad iBoot

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0000

About a month ago i had an 3GS iPhone die... yes just die... not able to boot it after it got so hot... Apple store replaced it with a device, they don't tell you if it is new or refurbished. I spent 6 hours trying to jailbreak it the standard way using Pwnage Pie from the iPhone Dev Team which i have used many times before on 3G and 3GS but the restore would not work... so i tried a new Jail Break system called blackra1n.... it worked but every time i reboot the phone i get the recovery mode screen. Which requires me to plug the iPhone to my computer and running baclkra1n again... the phone would still be jailbroken but it was annoying...

So here are the facts...

Recently produced 3GSs require a tethered JB. It means each time the phone is rebooted, it must be connected to a PC/Mac and the Blackra1n app needs to be run. Once it is run and boots up, the phone works like it should in the state it was when you rebooted.

That doesn't mean you lose your JB or UL. It only means it needs to be connected to a PC and use BR1 to get past the bootup sequence each time.

Check the serial # of the phone under Settings | General | About. If the 4th and 5th digit of the serial is "40" or higher, then you got a phone with the new iBoot and will require this each time its rebooted, unless/until someone comes up with a way to hack this in the future. And this applies if you use BR1 or PwnageTool/custom IPSW to JB. No tools exist currently to get around this.

Best iPod/iPhone toddler apps

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:02:00 +0000

As a parent of a toddler you know that you can never look at your iPhone/iPod Touch around your kids without hearing the following words...

"Daddy I want to see something in your Phone"

Over the last year my iPhone and my wife's iPhone have been "borrowed" by our son when we are in the car, home, really anywhere where he is board and want to do something different...

The following are apple store apps that our phone must have or our kid will ask for the games... they all cost about $0.99 - $1.99 but used lots by our son... check them out... we recommend them.

Tozzle

It keeps your toddler entertained and he/she learns to improve shape recognition and motor activity. Choose from 20 different puzzle pictures, all including funny sound effects.

Price: $0.99

Monkey preschool lunchbox

A fun and cute game aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 5. Help the monkey count, match, differentiate colors and letters, as well as helping the monkey solve puzzles that will teach shapes and pattern recognition. Price: $0.99

I Hear Ewe

It a fun game for toddlers that helps them to develop their motor skills and teaches them animal names and sounds at the same time. When your toddler taps a specific animal’s icon, they hear the name of the animal announced and a recording of the animal’s natural sound. This game is intended for 1-2 year old toddlers, or adults who love the sounds of animals! Price: FREE

Giraffe's Matching Zoo

Giraffe's Matching Zoo is a vibrant and exciting mind development game designed for children, but fun for all ages. Every adorable animal makes a unique and entertaining sound.Fun music, cute animations and special effects make this game a blast to play. Price: FREE

Preschool Adventure

Preschool Adventure is a package of six colorful interactive games that take full advantage of the multimedia capabilities on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Price: $0.99

Old MacDonald's Farm

The app is of course based on the popular children's song about Old MacDonald and his animal farms. When you start up the game, the farm is empty and is waiting to be populated with animals. The game features two stages. First, your child will have to select which animal goes on a farm by picking one from the animal wheel on the screen. As he rotates the wheel, the animals will make their specific sounds in turn. If he picks the wrong animal, it will disappear in one of three funny ways and he will have to choose again. When he gets it right, hear the full Old MacDonald song and move on to stage two. Price: $0.99

Hope you download a few of these and hope it keep your kids busy.

Comcast Internet Save $5 a month

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:56:00 +0000

You might be one of the many Comcast Cable Internet customers who did not notice the company is Hiking Cable-Modem Fee to $5 From $3 Monthly Nationwide. What do you get for that, we are not sure but a 66% rate increase make it not worth it to keep paying for the modem rental.

If you buy the Linksys CM100 Cable Mode for about ~ $60 from Amazon or Best buy it will pay for it self in a year... and after that you will be saving $5 a month. Even if you only have cable internet for 1 year you can sell sell the modem and make money back. So save some money in the long run and get the modem.

For installation just follow the few simple steps:

Unhook the old modem
Plug the new modem in the wall
Hook up the cable to the modem
Call 1 800 Comcast and give the service rep. the Mac address of the new modem off the box.

Don't forget to return the old modem as they will stop billing you only when they receive the old modem.

iPhone Free App: Gorillacam

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:37:00 +0000

"The Joby Gorillacam adds several features to an iPhone camera to help you get in the picture when capturing holiday happenings.
Foremost is a timer that lets you set the shutter to click three to 90 seconds after you hit the button, allowing more than enough time to scramble into frame and join the family for a picture."

Check it out... it is FREE

Windows 7 ISO Direct Download Links

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:56:00 +0000

Windows 7 ISO Direct Download Links

If you need to download an iso of the windows 7 to copy it to a USB check out the dirrect iso downloads from Microsoft partners.

Amazon.com

32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate x86 ISO
http://174.129.85.117/data/Windows7Ultimate32bit.iso

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate x64 ISO
http://174.129.85.117/data/Windows7Ultimate64bit.iso

Digital River:

32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium x86 ISO
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65732/X15-65732.iso

64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium x64 ISO
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65733/X15-65733.iso

32-bit Windows 7 Professional x86 ISO
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65804/X15-65804.iso

64-bit Windows 7 Professional x64 ISO
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65805/X15-65805.iso

Java + Spring + MediaWiki = JAMWiki

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:41:00 +0000

I been looking at using MediaWiki for a project but all that PHP was just killing and i did not want to start to learn another scripting language... so after a while I found the following wiki system JAMWiki

JAMWiki is a Wiki engine implemented using Java/JSP that attempts to provide much of the functionality of MediaWiki. It can be run with or without a database and is designed to be fast and easy to set up.

JAM Wiki

Offers many of the features of MediaWiki
Setup is quick and easy - no external database is required!
Supports almost any application server running Java 5 or later.
Utilizes the Spring Framework and Spring Security.
Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Check it out at all the JAMWiki Features

74% of the world, Google’s Chrome OS is not for you

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:01:00 +0000

74% of the world, Google’s Chrome OS is not for you: "

Google made a huge splash when it announced its plans for the Chrome operating system, a web-centric OS where essentially everything is run through a web browser. One great promise of Google’s Chrome OS is the arrival of low-cost, lightweight hardware, since most of the storage and other data handling is done in the cloud. Perhaps that 100-dollar computer will finally become a reality.

But there is a problem. A rather big one. The strength of the Chrome OS, that it makes maximum use of online resources, also limits its potential adoption. To have any real use of the OS you need a decent Internet connection, and that has some significant implications we need to look at.

5 billion without Internet access

Before we even discuss broadband, let us first get one piece of statistic out in the open: 74% of the world population doesn’t have Internet access. At all.

In other words, 5 billion of the world’s 6.8 billion people will have little use for Google’s Chrome OS because they don’t have Internet access.

This is the current Internet penetration shown by region:

Africa: 6.8%

Asia: 19.4%

Europe: 52%

North America: 74.2%

South America and Caribbean: 30.5%

Australia and Oceania: 60.4%

Middle East: 28.3%

Google’s Chrome OS is a great idea. Put as much as possible into the cloud, and keep the physical device as a “thin client” to access this functionality. However, this great depence on Internet connectivity has left the OS virtually useless for the vast majority of the world population, especially those who would have benefited the most from a low-cost, lightweight computer.

Now that a $100 computer is actually starting to look plausible, it’s ironic that those in true need of one won’t be able to use it. It will remain a luxury item, a secondary computer to those better off.

An even bleaker outlook: broadband

The numbers so far have been about Internet access, any kind, but to properly use a Web OS like the Chrome OS, you really need a broadband connection. This disqualifies an even larger percentage of the population. The mere thought of downloading and uploading documents and other data over an old dial-up connection makes us shiver.

So how common is broadband? Not as common as you might expect. For example, in the United States, 74.1% of the population has Internet access, but as of 2008, only 57% were accessing the Internet over a broadband connection. You could say that this makes Chrome OS unusable to 43% of the US population.

Internet penetration and broadband Internet penetration
Country	Internet penetration (total)	Broadband Internet penetration

United States	74.1%	57%
Canada	74.9%	65%
United Kingdom	76.4%	55%
Australia	80.1%	59%
France	69.3%	54%
Spain	71.8%	49%
Germany	65.9%	47%
Sweden	89.2%	54%
Japan	75.5%	55%

These countries are just a few examples to give you an idea of what the broadband penetration tends to look like. More examples can be found on ITIF’s homepage.

And remember that “broadband” isn’t always very good either. It’s usually defined as 256 kbps and up, and that lower spectrum of the broadband definition is hardly a performance monster. Downloading just one megabyte over a 256 kpbs connection takes more than 30 seconds even under ideal circumstances. Many web pages are larger than that.

So even among those who by definition have broadband Internet access, many will have far from an ideal experience of Chrome OS.

Final thoughts (and a happy ending?)

Don’t get us wrong, we at Pingdom like the concept behind Google’s Chrome OS. It’s just that we haven’t seen anyone mention this whole dilemma, so we wanted to shine some light on the actual implications of an OS that is virtually useless without Internet access.

That said, we’d like to end on an optimistic note. The idea behind the Chrome OS does hold a lot of promise. In a sense it’s a throwback to the old days of mainframes and terminals, where computing resources and storage are centralized and accessible by modest hardware on the user end. As Internet penetration spreads, more and more people will be able to benefit from this often cost-saving model where they don’t have to spend so much on hardware.

Data sources:

Broadband penetration data from ITIF (2008).

Internet penetration data from Internet World Stats (2009).

Which Google Account do you have... I Have 2 with the same email

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:54:00 +0000

Did you know that google has 2 kinds of accounts?

What's a Google Account?
A Google Account is a unified sign-in system that gives you access to a variety of free Google consumer products, including Google Groups, Google Shopping List, Picasa, Web History, iGoogle, and more. You can also sign in to AdWords, AdSense, and Google Checkout. If you've used any of these products before, you already have a Google Account.

So i have one of these.... with my main email address not a gmail... then years later i moved my main email (on my own domain)

What is Google Apps?
Google Apps is a suite of Google applications that brings together essential services to help your business. This is a hosted service that lets businesses, schools, and institutions use a variety of Google products - including Email, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk - on a unique domain (e.g. www.yourcompany.com).

so what is the big issues... will since both my google App and my google account have the same email it is hard to know which account i'm using... also there is no way to share contracts...

Now what we have google voice and google wave... they are attached to my google account but since my email is in my google apps i can't fully use these services and that is stopping me from doing a lot more ...

Now i hear that google is working to bridge both accounts... let us all hope this is the final step to enable google apps users to use the full power of google...

George

Eonverye taht can raed tihs rsaie yuor hnad..

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:00 +0000

Only great minds can read this This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Maven 3.0-alpha-3 Released!

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:07:00 +0000

If you don't know here are the goals of Maven 3.0

Provide a drop-in replacement for Maven 2.x. You should not have to change your POMs, or rewrite plugins. Your projects should just work.
Provide a more reliable, stable and performant Maven. We have tried to make Maven 3.x faster and we’ve succeeded for any of the projects that we’ve tested. We have a performance framework in place to make sure we don’t regress. We are measuring network I/O, disk I/O, CPU utilization and memory usage. We also have a massive number of integration tests to make sure the behaviour remains consistent and compatible as we progress. We simply aren’t going to go backward at this point.
Synchronize the M2Eclipse releases with Maven 3.x so that we can immediately push fixes from Maven 3.x into M2Eclipse. For a long time M2Eclipse was out of sync with Maven trunk and created a great number of problems. We are now completely in sync and within hours of making changes in Maven 3.x they make it into the CI builds of M2Eclipse.
Provide an easy way to embed Maven as a library. I think we’ve really proven this with M2Eclipse but Sonatype has two other efforts taking place. The first is to embed Maven 3.0 into Hudson and the second is to embed Maven 3.0 into Nexus. The APIs that we are creating not being final is largely why we are still releasing alphas. From a CLI perspective we’re pretty much done, from an embedding perspective we still have some work to do.

Maven: maven-jaxb-plugin update

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:19:00 +0000

If you get the following error check out my other blog posting, you will need to update your plugin repository

Sun Moved Maven Repository breaking everyone jusing maven-jaxb-plugin

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'com.sun.tools.xjc.maven2:maven-jaxb-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sun Moved Maven Repository breaking everyone jusing maven-jaxb-plugin

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:14:00 +0000

Starting today, and I guess over the last few days Sun changed the plugin repositories so if you tried to use your maven install command you would get the following error

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).


Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin
POM Location: C:\Documents and Settings\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-resources-plugin\2.3\maven-resources-plugin-2.3.pom

Reason: Not a v4.0.0 POM. for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin at C:\Documents and Settings\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-resources-plugin\2.3\maven-resources-plugin-2.3.pom


[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is due to you having the following in your pom.xml

    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>java.net-plugin-2</id>
            <name>java.net Maven Repository</name>
            <url>https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/nonav/repository</url>
            <layout>legacy</layout>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

Change it with the following

    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>java.net-plugin-1</id>
            <name>java.net Maven Repository</name>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/1</url>
            <layout>legacy</layout>            
        </pluginRepository> 
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>java.net-plugin-2</id>
            <name>java.net Maven Repository</name>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts....

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:03:00 +0000

General

Alt+P	Show/hide Preview Pane
Windows Logo+G	Bring gadgets to the top of the Z-order
Windows Logo++ (plus key)	Zoom in
Windows Logo+- (minus key)	Zoom out
Win Logo+Up	Maximize current window
Windows Logo+Down	Restore / Minimize current window
Windows Logo+Left	Snap to left
Windows Logo+Right	Snap to right
Windows Logo+Home	Minimize / Restore all other windows
Windows Logo+T	Focus the first taskbar entry Pressing again will cycle through them, you can can arrow around.
Win+Shift+T	cycles backwards.
Windows Logo+Space	Aero Peek at the desktop
Windows Logo+1,2 or 3	Launches a new instance of the application in the Nth slot on the taskbar. Example: Win+1 launches first pinned app, Win+2 launches second, etc.

Taskbar modifiers

Shift + Click on icon	Opens a new instance
Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon	Opens a new instance with Admin privileges
Shift + Right-click on icon	Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move / etc) Note: Normally you can just right-click on the window thumbnail to get this menu
Shift + Right-click on grouped icon	Menu with Restore All / Minimize All / Close All, etc.
Ctrl + Click on grouped icon	Cycle between the windows (or tabs) in the group

NFL Seahawks Kids Tickets Age Requirments

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:40:00 +0000

This Sunday was are going to the game, and wanted to know if we have to pay for our 2 year old kid.... so here is the info

Children who have celebrated their third birthday are required to have a ticket to gain admittance to a Seahawks game.
Children under three years of age are not required to have a ticket provided they sit on an adult's lap.
There are no discounted tickets available for children.

Is The $6,500 Homebuyer Tax Credit Retroactive for Existing Non-First Time Home Buyers?

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:09:00 +0000

A question looming large on the minds of a lot of many people is whether the $6,500 homebuyer tax creditwill be retroactive or not. Meaning, if you purchased your home beforethe inception of the tax credits, are you eligible for a credit?

Unless Congress has a sweeping change of heart, to the discouragement of many American home owners the answer is NO. The wording in the bill goes like this, “shall apply to residences purchased after the date of the enactment of this Act.” According to the bill the credit is being expanded to include a $6,500 tax credit to non-first time home buyers who purchase after the bill is signed.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooo

Downloads: MacDrive for Windows

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:26:00 +0000

A month ago i lost my MacBook Pro to a water damage and I have was able to recover any data from it. That said It was running Snow Leopard and i was backing it up with Time Machine and iBackup.

That said, the external drive did not mount in Leopard (my Power PC Mac) or Windows.... until now... check out MacDrive, it let me read the backup drive in Windows... if gives you a free trial and it is only $50

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

Setup Firefox 3.5 to Launch Google App GMail for mailto Links

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:05:00 +0000

So you love your google hosted email on your own domain (google apps) but Can't get the mailto links in web pages to full work... check out the following cleared up steps... I have to keep googleing this so might as well save them here...

Open a new tab in FireFox.
type about:config
search for network.protocol-handler.external.mailto and make sure it is set to true
go to your google apps mail (gmail).
in the window URL type
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","My Domain Mail") then hit enter.
When you see the Add Application button near the address bar click it.
in Firefox's Tools menu, choose Options. (Mac users, go to the Preferences dialog.) In the Applications tab, search for mailto. and you can select your "My Domain Mail" as the default or you can ask firefox to ask you every time.

HP HDX 16 fingerprint reader driver

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:09:00 +0000

So with the upgrade to Windows 7 for you HP HDX 16 laptop or any other laptop you will notice that HP does now have a download software for the Fingerprint Reader Software or drivers...

Note: My Hardware had the following ID "USB\VID_138A&PID_0001&REV_0372"

Here is how to get it working:

Download the Vista Version of Digital Persona Fingerprint Reader Software
Download the Visa Validity Fingerprint Sensor Driver

"Windows 7 supports two different fingerprint driver models. Microsoft’s new driver model is Windows Biometric Framework (WBF). It standardizes biometric application APIs and is unique to Windows 7. The other supported driver model is Windows Driver Framework (WDF). WDF enables all fingerprint sensor logon and application features on systems running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7."

so based on the above the Vista stuff will not work in Windows 7, so download the following Drivers for windows 7 from Validity (Windows 7 WBF)

this worked for me ...

jQuery Tools

noreply@blogger.com (George Dawoud) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:12:00 +0000

jQuery Tools: "

Tero Piirainen has created a new package of jQuery Tools.

This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today's website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library.

This library is open source and dual licensed under MIT and GPL 2+ licenses.

The package contains a slew of demos including:

Tabs

Tooltips

Expose

Overlay

Scrollable

Flashembed