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Measure 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 Online - Your Firefox hasn’t been re-started in hours. It’s running continuously, you’re surfing around websites, and of course you’ve wasted lots of time. You could have instead spent that time doing something good and productive, rather than just flying around worthless sites.

Hardware

• Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up - While munching on a reuben at Birk’s, a steakhouse in Silicon Valley, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins is explaining why he’s not too worried about a these trendy new laptops that have everything but a hard drive.
• Six-core Intel processors coming this year - Advancing its architecture at what most independent observers would now agree is a breakneck pace, Intel offered further details today on how soon it would begin phasing out the Core Microarchitecture it introduced in the summer of 2006.

Information

• Industry Giants Try to Break Computing’s Dead End - Intel and Microsoft said Tuesday that they planned to finance two groups of university researchers to start over and design a new generation of computing systems intended to break the industry out of a technological cul-de-sac that threatens to end decades of performance increases in computers.
• Adobe begins work on Flash player for iPhone - Adobe has started development of a Flash player suitable for use on Apple Inc.’s iPhone, company chief executive Shantanu Narayen said Tuesday.

Wed Development

• 10 AJAX Effects to Boost Your Website’s Fanciness Factor - There comes a point in time where we want to improve our website’s interface or provide a captivating experience that our users will remember.
• 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site - A webmaster’s work is never done. What may have worked a few years ago when could be outdated today, so it’s important to constantly improve your Web site.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• The Poker Face of Wall Street ($5.59).
• Command & Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars Kane Edition DVD ($19.97).
• Nikon D40x 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens ($869.93).
• Creative Live! Cam with Voice ($37.96).

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Tags: Seagate, Intel, Adobe+Flash, Bargains

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