Introduction

"Portlets are web components--like servlets--specifically designed to be aggregated in the context of a composite page. Usually, many portlets are invoked to in the single request of a portal page. Each portlet produces a fragment of markup that is combined with the markup of other portlets, all within the portal page markup." (from the Portlet Specification, JSR 168)

If you take a closer look at the browser content, you will see that this page is made up of different "windows." There is one window for the weather update, another window for news, a third for a stock price update, and so on. Each of these windows represents a portlet. If you take closer look, you will find that each of these windows has a title bar and a few buttons, including minimize and maximize buttons.

The Tuxlocator (also known as Oom Tom) is an Open Source geologging device. It enables you to show your location tracks real-time in Google Earth. You can upload video and pictures straight to your live track, send and receive i-SMS, find nearby friends, get alerts for millions of types of actual nearby events...broadcast a message to people around you...
UPDATE: The betaversion of Tuxlocator 1.5 will contain an embedded routeplanner.

More information about the Tuxlocator project can be found at code.google.com...