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Learn about human life, nature, and our universe, View remote slide shows, explore Wikipedia, do nice things with old hard drives and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software

teamslide 1.9 - Remote slide presentation software.
Wikipedia Explorer Beta - Application for showing links between various Wikipedia articles.
Quintura for Kids - Search engine for children, very
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It’s been a long while since our last post and there is a lot to catch up, hopefully we’ll do that quickly. Update your OpenOffice.org, get a Codec pack for your Mac, send anonymous text messages, read the rules for enabling Windows Aero in Vista, build a simple IRC bot in Python and much more
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Daily Friction is at it’s 200th edition. It’s been a long and fun ride until now. So congratulations!!! …. Yeeeppppp …. We have a lot of good stuff today. Get the new version of Skype, tame your process with ProcessTamer, try the Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Beta, buy a new Graphics Tablet, move your
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It’s been known for a while that you can use the Google video embedded player through Gmail to play media files. You can actually play any file openly hosted on the internet (in supported file format).
It does not required you a Gmail login or even have a Gmail account. All you have to do
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Today we feature the first Vista specific application, not something extremely useful by the looks of it, but nevertheless, it’s the first one. Find a lot more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software

Paint.NET v3.0 Beta 1 is now available - An open source .NET graphics application.
UniveRSS - a 3D Vista RSS reader -
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Edit XML documents, scribble in a wiki notebook, manage your UML diagrams, learn how to easily webcast on your own and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software

TimeSnapper 2.1 - Capture your day with screenshots.
XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.
wikidPad - wiki-like notebook for
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PayPal are to busy to accept your money, please contact them again after the holidays. Read Blake Rose’s recent PayPal communication. Hilarious.

Finally something refreshing from Yahoo. You Witness News is a new news service that uses Flickr photos and user-submitted videos to document news events. As described on the Flickr blog, “it’s a “citizen journalism” site which allows people to submit photos and video directly to the editorial desk of the biggest news site on the
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According to a recent study, 94 percent of business PCs in North America do not meet the minimum requirements for Vista. Beside the fact that Microsoft tend to underestimate the real requirements of it’s systems upon release in published statements, the picture is pretty gloomy.
About half of the average business PCs in North America are
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Upgrade your Adobe Reader, compare Apple to Dell, compile the Debian kernel, improve the scalability of your php applications, grow your own furniture, find a secret game and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 released - Redesigned the interface and added several new features.

Hardware

Comparing Apples and oranges–er, Dells
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I only have one question, is Jason Calacanis news?
Yesterday Jason Calacanis announced on his blog that he will be starting a new job at Sequoia Capital. It was covered on Techcrunch, Valleywag,
Search Engine Journal and a bunch of other high profile blogs. So I’ll ask again, is it really news? Are we moving from talking
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It’s been long and hard, but now things are starting to get back to normal. So…. quiet your Xbox 360, listen to your iPod, extend you laptop’s battery life, speed up websites and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Hardware

Quiet Your Xbox 360.
Top 5 best ways to listen to your iPod.

Information

10 Ways to
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