Daily Friction #341
Read webpages on your phone anywhere, Create your own smart bookmarks in Firefox, see how often you visit web sites in Firefox, play an online game if can stand the smell, read the confessions of a Wi-Fi thief, find great bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
- Laterloop - Read webpages later on your phone or anywhere.
Information
- Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief - “When I moved into my apartment three years ago, the first thing I did after I tipped the movers was sit down on a box, crack open my laptop and sniff the air for wi-fi signals. And I found them: my apartment was chock-full of delicious, invisible data, ripe for the plucking. You couldn’t say I made a conscious decision at that exact moment to become a criminal. But it definitely got a lot harder not to be a criminal.”
- Create Your Own Smart Bookmarks in Firefox 3 - There’s a good chance that you’ve played with things in other applications that are similar to Smart Bookmarks. For example, iTunes (and many other media players) have what are referred to as Smart Playlists. These are playlists that automatically assemble themselves based on specific criteria, such as the “most played” and “recently added” media. Smart Bookmarks are very similar since they can show you things like your most visited bookmarks or your recently added bookmarks.
- See How Often You Visit Web Sites in Firefox 3 - One of Firefox 3’s newest (and most revealing) backend features is its built-in usage tracking—it keeps a running tally of how often you visit a web page over a period of time, which informs the Smart Location Bar’s suggestions and creates things like smart bookmark lists of “Most Visited” sites. Smarter features informed by your behavior are great, but checking out the raw data can offer a whole lot of insight into where and how you spend your time online. Exactly what site have you visited the most since you installed Firefox 3 and how many times did you go there? Here’s how to find out.
- Delaying News in the Era of the Internet. - Television networks have a tradition of allowing a network suffering a death to make the announcement first. Other news outlets, including The New York Times and The New York Post, were about five minutes earlier in reporting Mr. Russert’s death for their Web sites.
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.
- Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks ($56.49).
- Sandisk 4GB MicroSDHC Memory Card ($16.99).
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Fun
- Puzzle Farter -An online game to those who can stand the smell.
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