Daily Friction #143
Monitor your system safety with the System Safety Monitor, view your outlook items on your desktop with DeskTask, check out the Linux cellphone, read about Amazon Unbox issues, discover how Diig is a game an more in today’d Daily Friction.
Software and Services
- System Safety Monitor 2.1.15.588 released.
- DeskTask 1.0 RC9 Released - DeskTask connects to Microsoft Outlook and displays your calendar and task items on the desktop.
Hardware
- Greenphone taps Linux know-how. Despite being created purely for developers, the Greenphone is a more attractive device than one might imagine.
Information
- My fight with Amazon Unbox - “To be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I can’t burn to DVD and can’t watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way“.
- Do not clean out your Prefetch folder!.
- Linux4Kids: Tools and toys for all ages.
- Digg as a game - In Game Theory, we care about the elements that arise from interactive decisions. In digg, players are the voters; the voters have n options; and, where non-paid voters are concerned, reputation is the over-riding incentive for voting a story.
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