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Get the new Pidgin 2.2.1 release, debug using the new Firebug 1.1 beta, unbrick your hacked iPhone, find out who’s winning the portable gaming console battle, gold plate your MacBook Pro., learn about PHP and Sessions, edit CSS live on your desktop, find bargains and a little bit more in today’s edition of the Daily
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Try the Ogg Theora codec, check out the new version of Wine, downgrade your iPhone back to firmware 1.0.2, fire your best employees and reward the lazy ones, have some picture fun, find some good bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software and Services

Beta version of Open-Source video codec Ogg Theora released
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It started slowly, A gossipy item there, a gossipy story there, but now it turned into a full blown rainstorm. More and more items on TechCrunch are of the slimy slander type, not the web 2.0 centric news feed we got used to.
The last two from TechCrunch, the Pownce vs. Digg one and
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Follow Your Team is a new feature from iTunes and the NFL Network which allows you to catch all the regular season highlights for your favorite NFL football team. you can download “Follow Your Team” episodes directly to your computer, iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. For $24.99, each week you will receive
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and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software and Services

Drupal 6, Beta 1 released - Drupal was improved in human language related features, interoperability with databases, logging solutions, sign on systems and also included an update notification module for improved security, so it becomes easier than ever to get up to date with
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Check out the new HD DVD media coming out soon, unlock your iPhone for free with iUnlock, read the interview with the man who tried to milk Linux, CEO and president of the SCO Group, get some great bargains, and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Hardware

DVD Forum gives three-layer, 51GB HD DVD
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Test the Windows live write beta 3, manage your Windows processes more efficiently using Process Explorer, code your XML file using Microsoft’s free XML editor, check out the HD VMD optic format, read the September 2007 Web Server Survey and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software and Services

Windows Live Writer Beta 3 -
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Get your flying license ready because the X-Hawk is coming to town. The X-Hawk which is a type of a flying vehicle or a flying car if you will, is being released soon. The company behind X-Hawk, Israeli-based Urban Aeronautics releases updates on the on going developments so you can keep track of technology,
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I signed up for PayPerPost more than a year ago, or more accurately August of last year, and never did anything with it. I just received their monthly newsletter and hardly ever logged in to check whats going on. Why? I don’t really know, I wasn’t intimidated by the bad press, I’ve just never given
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Not too much going on after this long weekend. Check out the Mcell hybrid hard drives, read what Google is doing as a venture capitalist, have some laughs and many fine bargains in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Hardware

hard drives with 1GB+ DDR RAM cache - A Japanese company called DTS has taken the idea
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