EasyEclipse is your one stop shop for many distributions of the popular open-source development IDE. The distributions are custom packaged with plugins that will allow you to work on a variety of programming projects.

napyfab.com has a great collection of animated gifs that you can use to indicate activity in your AJAX calls. You can choose versions that display over either a white or black background.

Google has just opened up their latest beta product “Google Calendar“. If you already have a GMail account, signing up is as easy as visiting the Calendar site and logging in with your existing GMail username and password. It pretty much like most calendaring applications and has features like calendar sharing, inviting others to events, GMail integration, mobile access and of course the famous Google search!

Strider URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol is a new product from Microsoft Research that helps protect web surfers from accidentally visiting sites that capitalize on misspelled domains.

When a user visits a Web site, her browser may be instructed to visit other third-party domains without her knowledge. Some of these third-party domains raise security, privacy, and safety concerns. The Strider URL Tracer, available for download, is a tool that reveals these third-party domains, and it includes a Typo-Patrol feature that generates and scans sites that capitalize on inadvertent URL misspellings, a process known as typo-squatting. The tool also enables parents to block typo-squatting domains that serve adult ads on typos of children’s Web sites

This tool is an addon for IE and it should also be noted that this product appears to be a beta version.

Anyone aware of a similar extension for Firefox?

The Particletree blog has a nice article titled - A Designer’s Guide to Prototyping Ajax - that walks you through a suggested process for developing prototypes of these new fandanagled web applictions. The article focuses on creating good wireframes using standards compliant XHTML and CSS.

Boot Camp is a beta software program that allows you to install Windows XP without moving your Mac data. With Boot Camp you can burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to seek them out yourself. Once Boot Camp is installed you simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. Cool! Dual-boot Macs!