Get the new Ubuntu 9.04 Release and fill it with Ubuntu’s top ten downloads, review Google Android’s first netbook computer, get the best out of iTunes, avoid traveling mistakes and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software and Services

  • Ubuntu Studio 9.04 Released – Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional.
  • Top 10 Ubuntu Downloads – The reviews are in, and the just-released Ubuntu 9.04, i.e. “Jaunty Jackalope,” rates as a slick, fully-formed Linux desktop. Looking to get started or upgrade your system? Here’s 10 recommended downloads for everyone to try.
  • Wine 1.1.20 Released – The Wine development release 1.1.20 is now available. What’s new in this release: Show a dialog on application crashes, much improved OLE copy/paste support, various listview improvements, more Direct3D code cleanups and various bug fixes.

Hardware

Information

  • Essential tips to get the best from iTunes.
  • $62,000 movie download a result of poor travel planning – $62,000 to download a movie? That’s what happened to a caller named Alberto, who told his data roaming tale of woe on the air to HLN “money expert” Clark Howard on CNN. Alberto made the grave mistake of downloading Wall-E for his nephew while vacationing in Mexico over his data card and was slapped with a $62,000 bill from his wireless carrier when he returned home. Alberto tried to contest the charge and the carrier reduced the bill to $17,000, arguing that the five-figure charge was what it cost them to deliver the movie.
  • Worm Solves Gmail’s CAPTCHA, Creates Fake Accounts – A Vietnamese security company has detected what it believes is a new worm that thwarts Google’s security protections in order to register new dummy Gmail accounts from which to send spam.

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