Here’s a cool new app for the iPhone and iPod touch - say hello to ‘PockerGuitar’, an app that really trumps the air guitar. You can even have guitar sessions with the songs in your iPod as it’s been tested on iPod touch 1.1.1. Installation is easy, PocketGuitar is now included in ModMyiFone.com Sources. via code.google.com

Today MySQL, the world’s most popular open-source database, has agreed to be acquired by Sun Microsystems for around $1 billion. This is big news for the Swedish MySQL that started in 1995, and is a rocker for the open-source world.MySQL is a staple element in many of today’s most popular websites like Facebook, Google, Nokia, Baidu and China Mobile; and popular blogging platforms like Wordpress. Sun press release

Computers aren’t very good at random numbers. The problem is that they’re too predictable, and will eventually repeat themselves. If you call a random number in a line of code, then with the same seed value every time that program runs you will get the same order of numbers. Sometimes this is a problem, and sometimes it’s not.

In some academic applications it’s vital to get true random numbers, and there have been some interesting solutions. Now though, there is an online resource that can provide true random numbers by measuring the quantum process of photon emission. The Quantum Random Bit Generator Service (QRBGS) was developed by computer scientists from the Ruder Boškovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia. ::Press Esc

SAP has admitted hacking into Oracle’s network and carrying out, “inappropriate downloads.” Pretty much anything you download from a competitors hacked network is inappropriate, I would say. It was a subsidiary of SAP, TomorrowNow, that performed the espionage, and SAP said the themselves had not accessed the material.

SAP CEO, Henning Kagerman, said, “Even a single inappropriate download is unacceptable from my perspective. We regret very much that this occurred.” Oracle say that the act was, “corporate theft on a grand scale.”

A BBC article says that the downloaded material was ‘copyrighted software’, so I can only presume that it involved source code. If that’s the case then it could be a major problem. If coders at a company are proven to have seen a competitors code then that has implications on SAPs IP rights on their own code.

For all you Linux users out there, Google has just released Google Desktop for Linux. This was built mainly out of their Beijing office, and has almost the same functionality as the first Windows version of Google Desktop Search and the Quick Search Box. It definitely runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. One of the best advantages of Google Desktop is the inclusion of GMail messages in search results, which I can say is awesome and has saved me many times. Just hit ‘Ctrl’ twice to bring up the Quick Search Box and start searching.

Adobe has just launched ‘Digital Editions 1.0’, and it’s their new free e-reader. Digital Editions lets you download, manage, and read books/documents in digital format on Windows and OS X. What’s also great is the compatibility with PDF, XML, and Flash.

Sony is adopting the Digital Editions technology in their ‘Sony Reader’, but it’s open to anyone using Adobe InDesign CS3 where you can convert anything into DE format. The Digital Editions 1.0 download is free and only about 2.5 MB.

Swarmcast has just launched theri new ‘Autobahn’ accelerator for iTunes. According to Swarmcast, Autobahn “is a lightweight application that provides accelerated downloads and more reliable streaming video for popular applications and websites.” Basically it optimizes your incoming bandwidth but does not use any upstream bandwidth. Right now it is only for iTunes on Windows, but they say there will be support for more applications in the future.

Someone has noticed that there is a tiny picture of three guys on the Windows Vista DVD. I guess that it’s an easter egg, although I thought that big companies too a dim view on that kind of thing these days?

Everyone has been in a frenzy about how some iTunes Music Store items are now DRM free, but your account info is embedded in purchased files. So if your little file did find it’s way onto a P2P, and our friends at the RIAA saw, they would try and track it back to you. But, what if it wasn’t you that did it? What if someone stole, hacked, and invaded your system and put your entire library online that you purchased? There’s too many scenarios where the purchaser could be rendered innocent. That’s why embedding this information on iTMS files is wrong.

Here are the detailed and easy instructions on ‘How to strip your iTunes account information from iTunes Plus tracks’ - Have fun!

Someone called Sev7en, perhaps not their real name, has posted a very detailed tutorial on how to get OS X running on a Sony Vaio UX. Of course, this isn’t allowed by the OS X EULA, so the tutorial has the standard disclaimer;

This method is not confirmed or trusted and some people say it is illegal because the EULA says that you are not allowed to install OSX on non-Apple hardware. This means that for most people it is ILLEGAL to install osx on their computer. If you aren’t an Apple developer, leave this guide now.

If you are an Apple developer, then the guide looks fairly simple, and the results look good. You could always just wait for an iPhone though, which will have much of the functionality, at a fraction of the cost. :: Micro PC Talk