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Bought a new DVD burner but didn’t get any burning software with it? (Yes, it does happen), DeepBurner is you answer - A free (along with a paid version) burning software for CDs and DVDs. Leaving for a trip in Eurooe? Try Google maps for Europe, so far only France, Germany, Italy and Spain
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Today’s modest daily friction includes the Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 release, an update to the PSP system and one fun music community. Enjoy.

Software & Services

IE 7 beta 2 out and can be downloaded for testing. Key features include tabbed browsing, “Quick Tabs” - A way to see multiple web pages on a single tab,
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Hey, what’s up? Digg is down.
I didn’t see any notice of scheduled maintainance or anything similar.
I hope it’s going to come back soon. I need my digg, and I need it now.

Google just released a Beta version of a new Adsense product, “Adsense for Feeds”. This program allows the publishers to monetize on their feeds through contextually targeted advertising. Unlike before, this beta will be open to “regular” Adsense publishers and is one step ahead of public beta or final release.
AdSense for feeds will work just
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That’s it, after many sepculations BlogExplosion has been sold. From the official announcement:
We are pleased to announce that BlogExplosion has been sold to Stephen Sartain and a group of private investors this weekend. We had competitive bids all through last week and finally was decided on Saturday afternoon.
Stephen has bought two sites from us previously
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From Apples new 2.16GHz Intel-based MacBook to Kubb, a 1000 years ago Vikings game. All in today’s Daily Friction.

Software & Services

Flickr2Photocast is a service that generates an iPhoto-compatible photocast feed from Flickr containing up to 500 images in their original format/resolution.
Scrapblog - online scrapbooks.
File Juicer - Extract images from PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and other
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Need old versions of Firefox to test your web application? Here are two good ones:
The ulmimate resource Mozilla FTP site.
Firefox at OldVersion.com.
Firefox at OldApps.com.
Mozilla old versions (FTP).
Netscape old versions.
Opera at OldVersion.com.
Opera FTP site.

Check out Opera 9 beta and some other new releases together with good information and web development tips, All in today’s Daily Friction.

Software & Services

Opera 9 Beta released.
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal,
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TV Guide has launched a new blogging community.
From the wire : “Over 65 entertainment blogs are now live on the site, featuring expert reporting and commentary from writers and editors from both TV Guide magazine and TVguide.com. Each blog allows TVGuide.com users to post comments and interact with the site’s critics. In addition, every
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Remember ASCII art? If you do, you’re going to love this one application over at the Fun section. PicTexter converts real graphic images to the good old ASCII art and saves the result to a variety of formats. Check PicTexter along with other application on today’s Daily Friction.

Software & Services

Version 0.3 of Windflower is out
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Mozilla has released a security and stability update for the Thunderbird E-mail client. This release is here to fix a pretty big list of bugs.
From the release:
Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 provides stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safer email experience for our users. We recommend that all Thunderbird users
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Not many people hesitanted to install the beta version of Google Desktop 3 in various available languages. Now Google Desktop 3 is out of beta and ready for everyone. Available languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian. We’ll see if other languages follow.

Find the OpenID for WordPress plugin over at Scatmania. This will be a great solution for many users. A better install and better tested versions will continue come .

Software & Services

I don’t want Windows on a Mac. I want OS X on a PC. Me too.
Hamachi can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into a virtual network for direct secure communication.

Information

CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character.

Corporate

When a product is better than the company.

By
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I was helping a friend get his blog into some of the popular blog directories when I received this interesting response from BlogWise:
Your site has been added to the submission queue. Thank you for adding your site to Blogwise.
It is important to us that all entries are checked for consistency before approval, however Blogwise is
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Manage your anger safely with Whack Your Boss. Great for relieving some of that workplace stress.

Wonder what all the hooks are? Don’t look below if you want to try it yourself.

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Wall behind coat
Coat Hook
Trash Can
Umbrella
Stapler
Ruler
Keyboard
Monitor
Right door of top cabinet
Scissors
Coffee Cup
Breifcase
Hands
Chair
Boss’s Pencil

Waiting for Office 2007? Want to access your winamp over the network? Want to share video over the internet? No? In any case, many interesting things in today’s Daily Friction.

Software & Services

Waiting for Office 2007, check out the Office 2007 Preview site. Nothing too fancy but it will have to do.
AjaxAMP is a very
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The Crystalys Media spyware seems to be spreading like wildfire the last few days. If you see the h91746.exe running on your Windows machine or find this file in you C:\temp directory, you know you got it too.
The h91746.exe is an executable file which primary purpose is to start a parasite or launch some of
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Daniel Glazman writes one of the most comperhensive reviews of Internet Explorer 7 second beta. He begins with the installation, goes through the initial configuration and security features, moves on to the wieredness of the new manues and tabs, checks out the filters, the add-on feature, and all the rest of the old and new.
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Google acquired a new advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student at the University of New South Wales in Australia. It seems that Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the university where Alon is a doctoral student in computer science.
All three parties refused to comment on the issue. However, the
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Like searching on Yahoo Search but don’t like Yahoo’s busy homepage? No problem, direct your browser to search.yahoo.com. We’ve seen MSN search do it, Yhaoo is just a bit behind.

While checking out my site a few moments ago I was amazed to see the internet advertising network ValueClick Media serving a Google Adsense campaign. I don’t mean a campaign to advertise the Google Adsense service, but actually serving Google Adsense ads as one of ValueClick campaigns.
This is very troubling and may cause serious
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Here’s Daily Friction number 69 - Nothing fancy nothing special, just a few good reads and some nifty tricks.

Software

Wine 0.9.11 Released.

Information

Description of CD-R and CD-RW recording in Windows XP.
Red Hat’s Global File System on Fedora Core 4.

Web Development

Use this combination of JavaScript and VBScript will detect if your users have installed Flash and, if so,
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