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I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate edition on a virtual machine created with VirtualBox 3.1.2, and noticed it didn't recognize the audio driver. Then I googled for an answer to my problem, and found on the VirtualBox forum that I had to download the AC97 drivers from http://www.realtek.com.tw/ and install them on the Windows 7 virtual machine. I did that and the problem disappeared! Now I can hear sound on my Windows 7 VM!

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In Swinging and Tweeting with Java and NetBeans: Part 1 of this article series, we saw a simple way to see your last tweet via a Java application called SwingAndTweet using the Twitter4J API.

In this article by Alfonso Romero, we will add some more functionality to our SwingAndTweet Java application.

Here, we will learn how to:

• Create a twitterLogin dialog to take care of the login process
• Add functionality to show your 20 most recent tweets right after logging in
• Add the functionality to update your Twitter status

In this tutorial, we'll develop the simple Java application further to add some more functions. Now that we can connect to our Twitter account via the Twitter4J API, it would be nice to use a login dialog instead of hard-coding our Twitter username and password in the Java application.

But before we start to build our enhanced SwingAndTweet application, let me show you how it will look like once we finish all the exercises in this part of the tutorial:

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I recently stumbled upon a twitter API called JTwitter. It looks as interesting as the Twitter4J API, which I'm using to write a Twitter Java application for my boss. It should be interesting to have a list of all the available APIs for Twitter, and make some comparisons...

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Geez, I had a lot of trouble these last two days because I installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and my PC was stuck at 800x600 resolution, even though I could get up to 1024x768 on Ubunu 9.04 Jaunty. After two days and several anxiety attacks, I finally discovered that it all was due to a loose connection between the graphics adapter and the monitor! How about that? I never had a problem like this before...

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• Learn to manage group blogs
• Use aggregators and blog search engines to expand your Roller blog's audience
• Configure Google webmaster tools for your Roller weblog
• Use podcasts in your weblog entries
• Use Google docs as a weblog client to publish entries in your Roller weblog
• Use Planet Roller to aggregate external blogs along with your Roller blogs

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A few minutes ago I had some trouble when creating a new virtual machine with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS edition through the VBoxManage interface. Thanks to the http://www.networkfoo.org/server-infrastructure/ubuntu-server-install-virtualbox-kernel-requires-following-features-not-presen post, I discovered I needed to activate the PAE extensions.

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