Free Desktop Clock appears to be derived from the frustrating old Sarbyx TrayClock whose skins had a tendency to work only on some machines. But now you can get stuff like this with no hassle at all:
Other nice features:
- Over 50 skins to choose from
- Auto-run on Windows startup (optional)
- Transparent or coloured background
- 12 or 24 hour display
- Seconds optional
- Atomic-clock synchronisation
- Easy, smart and stable
Go to the Free Desktop Clock download page.
The latest Digsby (which is 50% lighter on your CPU than the previous one) makes it simple to IM across various networks (all except Skype, alas) and, even better, makes it child’s play to keep track of postings to your Twitter and Facebook feeds as well as your LinkedIn, MySpace and e-mail accounts. What could be simpler than hovering your mouse over an icon? Or throwing your eye over a discreet popup?
From a Twitter point of view, it lets you retweet, which is nice, but I can’t see how to write a new tweet.
UPDATE: not 10 minutes after this post went live, I got a comment from Erick at Digsby (see below). Bottom line: you can write new tweets with Digsby and there are two ways to do it — the easiest being to double-click on your twitter username in the main panel (you can post to facebook by doing the same with your facebook username). It even has snipr.com URL shortening.
Also no sign of TwitPic support, etc. I know I’m asking for the kitchen sink, but Tweetdeck has all that, plus it offers me the option of posting to Facebook and Twitter simultaneously … so Digsby still isn’t ready for All-in-One status. But it’s getting there, and I’d say it’s closer than any competitor in the IM or Social Networking camps.
Digsby is free. Get it here.
I wonder if the Chinese believe their own government’s propaganda?
TechDirt reports:
With China trying to stop Google from helping internet users find pornography, it appears that China has picked up its propaganda campaign. Boing Boing points us to the news that a guy quoted as part of a "man on the street" interview by China’s state-owned TV news network claimed that searching for porn online can make you absent-minded:
"I have this fellow student and he’s been curious about these kinds of things. He visited porn Web sites and ended up becoming absent-minded for a while."
Very convincing. Apparently, lots of other people weren’t convinced by the guy’s performance, and looked into his background… and discovered that he just happens to be a student intern at the very same TV news network that was asking the questions. So, if you can’t find a man on the street to give you the answers that you want, apparently China finds someone they can coach.
Then again, why shouldn’t the Chinese believe their own government’s propaganda? I mean, look at the Americans.
Yep. The Pirate Bay has been bought for $7.8 million by a company called Global Gaming Factory X AB. And according to said outfit, their plan is:
to launch new business models that allow compensation to the content providers and copyright owners
So, except if GGF’s intent here is misdirection, The Pirate Bay is about to become a "legitimate” shadow of its former self.
Cynics are not surprised. The rest of the human race would pretend to be, if it cared.
Ever wondered why the pundits who failed to predict the current economic crisis are still being paid for their opinions? It’s a consequence of the way human psychology works in a free market, according to a study of how people’s self-confidence affects the way others respond to their advice.
Read on.
Thank you for your unyielding probity and trenchant criticism of corporate shiftiness, o great Scott Adams.
As found on http://dilbert.com/
As found on TruthDig.
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02 July 2009 3:42 pm | 
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