TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt provides virtual encrypted disk functionality for Windows.  It can host a virtual filesystem within a file or across an entire device (including a flash drive).

Mathematica Bar Charts

On Mathematica bar charts, you can add tooltips showing the values for each bar thus:

BarChart[data] /.
  Rectangle[a_, {b_, c_}] :> Tooltip[Rectangle[a, {b, c}], c]

StAX

StAX support is growing, especially since the reference implementation found its way into Java 6.  However, the general buzz is that the reference implementation is not good enough for production use.  Here are some alternatives:

• Sun's Implementation - SJSXP
• WoodSToX XML Processor
• BEA Reference Implementation
• Oracle StAX Pull Parser Preview
• codehaus StAX

Pending Events in AWT and SWT

AWT does not provide a function to process pending UI events.  However, you can get the same effect by calling EventQueue.invokeLater(Runnable) which will not return until after all pending events are processed and the supplied Runnable finishes.  SwingUtilities also provides invokeLater.

SWT provides Display.readAndDispatch() to process all pending events.  This is a good thing, because trying the "invoke later" trick using Display.syncExec(Runnable) won't work.  SWT makes no guarantees about event processing in syncExec -- it simply ensures that the Runnable will be executed in the UI thread at "the next reasonable time".