Just thought I’d slip another release of UPM out before the end of the year. Here’s what’s new in this release… – Added Czech and German translations (courtesy of Petr Ustohal) – Added username and password fields to the HTTP proxy options – The HTTP Proxy can be enabled/disabled using a checkbox while still retaining [...]
Archive for December, 2006
UPM 1.5 Released
31Dec06JPasswordField is a Java SWING control used to manage password fields. Rather than use a normal JTextField it masks the characters typed by the user with some other character (default is an ‘*’). Very often it’s useful to see the actual text in this field. One way to do this is to give the user [...]
I’ve bought a few tracks from iTunes over the years but their DRM policies are beginning to grate with me. Ideally what I’d like is to be able to buy individual tracks at a high bit rate and with no DRM (wouldn’t we all I hear you say). I’ve had a look at emusic but [...]
About 2 years ago (Nov 2004) I bought my first mac, an iMac G5. In general I’ve been quite happy with it but it’s never really blown me away. There are a few nice features and applications but over the past few years there have been some pretty great free applications brought to the PC [...]


