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Archive for March, 2008Daily Friction #324Sunday, March 30th, 2008
After a little hiccup in the WordPress code which caused a short down time during the day, I’m back in business with a new minimalistic edition of the Daily Friction. Should Apple care about a customer who pours water onto his MacBook? Can Swedish authorities force an ISP to block The Pirate Bay? Google Daily Friction #323Thursday, March 27th, 2008Find the fine line between price and performance, distinguish between good and bad ISPs with Azureus, turn your PC into a DVD ripping monster, try to hear the difference between a 128 and 320 kbps mp3s, manage MySQL remotely, find bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Hardware The fine lines between price Daily Friction #322Monday, March 24th, 2008Check your hard disk status with CrystalDiskInfo, build a functional lightweight Linux desktop, find 24 reasons why you should attend these blog conferences, get the new JRuby 1.1RC3, find bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. Daily Friction #321Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Customize your Windows Vista install (Are you really going to install that thing? organize your contacts with Open Contacts, edit your videos with Avidemux, create Snapshot-Backups on Ubuntu, build a reverse proxy, find great bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services Advanced WindowsCare 3 Beta 1.0 - New Generation Of Advanced Keeping your blog in focusThursday, March 20th, 2008Can random surfers identify what your blog is about? Daily Friction #320Thursday, March 20th, 2008View pictures quickly, read why you can’t resist grazing on web data, learn about Google’s search share, developers widgets for Google docs with two new tools, find great bargains, and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services FastPictureViewer is a small and very fast application, so simple that it’s purpose might not be Know your audienceWednesday, March 19th, 2008When writing a blog or content for a website, do you aim to the right audience? Are you doing everything possible to turn them into loyal readers? Daily Friction #319Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Measure how much time you spend online, learn why the CEO of Seagate is not worried with flash memory, welcome Intel’s six core CPUs, boost your website with 10 AJAX effects, find great bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services 5 Tools to Track How Much Time you Waste while Daily Friction #318Monday, March 17th, 2008Tweak your registry with TweakNow, find out if Windows Vista SP1 is on track, learn why Japan is turning its back on 2G, find bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services TweakNow WinSecret - In TweakNow WinSecret a collection of popular Windows XP/Vista registry settings and provide them for the Daily Friction #317Thursday, March 13th, 2008Get a blu-ray player before prices continue to rise, build virtual hosting with Virtualmin, monitor multiple systems with munin, protect your files systems and swap space with Cryptmount, find bargain and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Hardware Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs As Competition Dwindles - Blu-ray Disc players from Samsung, Sony Daily Friction #316Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Watch movies in your Firefox with Gnash, follow your network traffic with PacketTrap, learn why Logitech will never sell to Microsoft, discover how Bluetooth got it’s name, find bargain and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services The first beta release of Gnash has just been made at version 0.8.2. Gnash is a Daily Friction #315Monday, March 10th, 2008Sync your Google calendar with Google Calendar Sync, try using the new Internet Explorer 8 beta, Rush your shell with Ruby syntax commands on your shell, get some new Gmail hack and tips, find bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Daily Friction #314Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Some days have have more friction than others, not having a whole lot today. Search smarter with Apache Solr, mourn Gary Gygax, learn how to be a classy leader, use the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset on today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Information Search smarter with Apache Solr - Connecting your users with the content they Daily Friction #313Monday, March 3rd, 2008Read about IE8’s final return to standardization, understand why Steve Wozniak is frustrated with iPhone, Apple TV and MacBook Air, listen to Bill Gates answers questions about Yahoo and Google, build a high availability load balancer, find bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 - Daily Friction #312Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, remove items that have been previously disabled on your computer, enable any mass storage media device to be used with iTunes, read about the new Microsoft mess with Windows Vista and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Software and Services OpenWithView 1.0 |
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