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Multimodal technology provides multiple methods of communication between the user and a device. These methods include keypad, touch or tap screen, handwriting recognition, and voice recognition. Add multimodal capability to your applications using the Multimodal Tools Project for Eclipse, an entry-level, lightweight package for Web developers.

Almost three years ago, developerWorks published "Using the Ruby Development Tools plug-in for Eclipse," which introduced some of the features found in the Ruby Development Tools (RDT) plug-in for Eclipse. Current at the time was V0.5. We revisit that tool in this article. Today, RDT is called Aptana RadRails and is available as a plug-in for Aptana Studio or Eclipse. This article introduces some of the plug-in's new features.

[Screenshots are from the Windows version, but it works the same on Linux of course — Sander]

The Find command in Firefox locates the user-specified text in the body of a Web page. The command is an easy-to-use tool that works well enough for most users. Sometimes, however, a more powerful Find-like tool would make locating text easier. Learn how to build a tool that isolates relevant text in Web pages faster by detecting the presence and absence of nearby words.

Blades are a great choice for many applications and services. But the requirements of these provider networks often require configurations that are complex and need up-front focus so all the strict functional requirements are met. In this article, learn how to set up the network configurations for a POWER6 JS22 blade deployment.

Tap into social software and add value to your application. Social networks are making it easier to take data and mash it up to create innovative new Web applications. In this article, the first of a three-part series, learn how to develop Google App Engine (GAE) applications and use Eclipse to make GAE development even easier.

Knock some sense into your computer with a Hard Drive Active Protection System-aware kernel, an accelerometer-enabled laptop, and a Perl script. Double tap to lock the screen, and knock in your secret code to unlock. Tap the display lid once to move your mp3 player to the next track. The possibilities are endless.

Learn the tools and code needed to add encryption support for user data in one of the most popular online calendar applications. Building on the flexibility of Firefox extensions and the Gnu Privacy Guard, find out how to store encrypted event descriptions in Google's Calendar application, while displaying a text version to anyone with the decryption keys.

The loss of critical data can prove devastating. If you use Linux, you already have access to extremely powerful tools for creating custom backup solutions. The solutions in this article can help you perform simple to more advanced and secure network backups using open source tools that are part of nearly every Linux distribution.

Imagine creating Web-page graphics dynamically using just code. Creating and manipulating images is yours for the doing with the power of PHP. This tutorial steps through using the GD library, showing you how to create and alter images on Web pages. It starts with the GD construct, and then builds on it to showcase graphics techniques.

CodeRally combines competition with collaboration in networked races of up to 100 human-controlled cars, all Java-coding their way around the same crowded course. The competition and competitiveness actually makes users end up coding better and faster.

Discover a plug-in to the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling that provides new C/C++ Project Types with PowerPC-specific GNU toolchain switches available in the project properties. Also, learn how this plug-in limits the number of conflicting switch combinations that are possible.

Discover how the Eclipse Ganymede release of 24 projects showcases the diversity and innovation going on inside the Eclipse ecosystem. Get an overview of several Ganymede projects, along with resources to find out more information.

Discover how the updated Pattern Modeling and Analysis Tool for Java Garbage Collector parses GC trace, analyzes Java heap usage, and recommends configurations based on pattern modeling of Java heap usage.

Learn, step-by-step, how to configure and encrypt the built-in Wi-Fi network that comes with the Cell Broadband Engine-based Sony PlayStation 3. And, as a little bonus, discover 16 quick steps that explain how to switch from a wireless network back to a wired network on the PS3.

The use of multimedia content has increased dramatically over the last few years, but people with limited or no vision have not been able to fully enjoy the benefits of these advances. Discover a new multimedia browsing accessibility tool that provides people with visual impairments a level of control more comparable to a sighted person using a mouse.

Discover Database Connectivity, a JavaScript API and implementation that enables Web clients to use an Ajax style of programming to directly access server-side relational data without compromising enterprise security. Also, learn how Web 2.0 applications can use this middleware to access relational data as a first-class construct instead of through ad hoc protocols.

Hardware on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows allows for gestures beyond point and click that create more-efficient navigation. Discover the tools needed to add this gesture support on Linux-enabled hardware. In this article, learn to enable swipe and pinch gestures for Linux applications by analyzing synclient program output for a Synaptics TouchPad.

Discover the Performance Simulator for Linux on POWER, a suite of performance models based on the POWER series of processors. Learn to examine how your code executes on various POWER processors so that you can identify and avoid common performance hazards on these processors.

The Firefox 3.0 release has support for microformats in the form of an API that you can access from a Firefox extension. Follow an example of how to use this API from within your extension code. Take a skeleton Hello World extension and give it the ability to store an hCard from a Web page and then use that stored hCard to populate a Web form.

Which Eclipse distribution is right for you? Compare the CodeGear JBuilder 2008 Turbo trial version, nexB EasyEclipse, Europa bundles, and Innoopract's Yoxo On Demand distros. Many of these Eclipse distributions already contain the plug-ins and tools you need to start working right away.