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Archive for August, 2006Amazon just announce aStore BetaWednesday, August 30th, 2006Amazon just announce aStore open Beta to all it’s Amazon associates. Daily Friction #136Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Ready for Windows Vista Release Candidate 1? Seems like it’s right around the corrner. In the mean time you try Gmail Manager for managing multiple gmail accounts, scan your disk with AssessTree to locate large files and folders, review new Intel Core 2 Duo notebooks and much more. Software and Services Microsoft expected to release Vista RC1 Windows Vista prices leaked - Ooh really?Tuesday, August 29th, 2006At first is seemed like yet another blooper hits a big company. Microsoft Canada supposedly accidentally released Windows Vista pricing on Microsoft’s Canadian website. When the mistake was “found” the listings were remove promptly. Comments are backFriday, August 25th, 2006The comments problem is now fixed with the latest Wordpress upgrade. Daily Friction #135Thursday, August 24th, 2006First item on today’s Daily Friction is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 for Windows XP SP2, after that your free to enjoy the rest of the good info. Software and Services Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 for Windows XP SP2. Hardware This is ridicules, giant Swiss army knife offers 85 tools. Daily Friction #134Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Improve you Google calander with Calgoo, hide all you running application in a press of a hotkey with HideWin, check out the first bluray DVR, learn why the .mac is dying and much, much more is this installation of the Daily Friction. Enjoy. Software and Services Calgoo makes the Google calendar better. Comments brokenTuesday, August 22nd, 2006A few days ago (actually more than a few days, but well…) I’ve noticed I’m not getting any spam comments. Evidently I was not getting ANY comments at all. While trying to post a comment myself I’ve found out that something is broke in my comment mechanism. I don’t know exactly why, since I didn’t Daily Friction #133Monday, August 21st, 2006Even during the few days of blog vacation the friction is still here. Some interesting things are in store today. Enjoy. Software and Services We’ve seen the watch TV channels in your browser websites before, they come and go and have various degrees of quality. This is just another one of them. Maybe this one will survive. Daily Friction #132Tuesday, August 15th, 2006Busy, busy, busy. Here is today’s friction. Some interesting stuff, some ummm… well, judge for yourselves. Enjoy. Software and Services Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way. Daily Friction #131Monday, August 14th, 2006Another day, and more friction coming our way. Have fun. Software and Services Advanced Spyware Remover 1.92 - Scan/Remove spyware, adware and malware, immunize and block over 20000 known spyware, adware and malware and remove and fix pc hijacker programs. Daily Friction #130Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Before getting into a new week you may want to check out today’s friction. Protect your privacy on Firefox with FoxyProxy, Publish you blog on Live Spaces, Wordpress, Typepad and other blogging services using Microsoft’s new Windows Live Writer service, discover TIME magazin’s 50 Coolest Websites, learn how to draw from beginners to advanced and Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows 2003Sunday, August 13th, 2006Shutdown Event Tracker provides a way for System Administrators and IT professionals to track and log why a servers are being restarted or shut down. It gathers the reasons users/administrators give for restarts and shutdowns to help create a comprehensive picture of an organization’s system environment. Daily Friction #129Saturday, August 12th, 2006Low friction this weekend. Enjoy the few of these wicked finds of the day. Software and Services Famster - Share photos, stream videos, create a blog, upload files, keep track of RSS feed all for free. Information Protect Your Privacy from Google. Web Development MySQL Connection Management in PHP - How (Not) To Do Things. Fun 10 Ways to make yourself a YouTube Daily Friction #128Thursday, August 10th, 2006Being sick is not making my work easier and the friction is a little more painful. A little more than usual hardware info and gadgets today. Check it out and don’t forget to have some fun . Software and Services AirportMonitor is a dynamic, interactive display of air traffic and flight information available on Daily Friction #127Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Control two computers from one spot with Synergy, set an IM on your webpage with meebo me, learn why proprietary software can kill you and a little bit more on today’s daily friction. Software and Services Synergy - Keyboard and mouse sharing software to let you control two computers from one spot. Daily Friction #126Monday, August 7th, 2006Here is another installation of the Daily Friction. Backup your files and directories, monitor your network, record your music, secure your MySQL data and build ajax applications, all in today’s Daily Friction. Software and Services Cobian Backup 8 is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original AOL releases users privacy dataMonday, August 7th, 2006In case you missed the HUGE AOL scandal you get your update over at TechChurch. The short version; AOL released a 500MB archive containing 20M search records from over 500k aol users. To protect user’s privacy AOL usernames were replaced with a unique id, the problem is that even with this protection measure you Back into the stocks gameMonday, August 7th, 2006While sorting some of my financials, I’ve decided it’s time to consolidate a few of my stock and trading accounts. I have accounts over at Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers, Wells Fargo and a few others, believe it or not. Sometimes I would trade on my own, at others I let the so called professionals get their |
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