Windows/Linux only: Google has so many different services these days that installing a notification app for each one gets cumbersome quickly. Free system tray utility Googsystray watches Gmail, Calendar, Reader and Wave so you can set it and forget it.
Computerworld reports that Mark Shuttleworth (who was generous enough with his time to show us how he gets things done back in 2007) has stepped down as CEO of Ubuntu earlier this morning.
Windows only: Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent just released its 2.0 release candidate yesterday, complete with UDP tracker support and a new transfer cap feature to help you monitor your bandwidth usage — and video streaming is in the works for 2.1.
The New York Times reports on a study examining how watching less TV affects average (five hours/day) TV viewers. The results: Cutting television in half resulted in the equivalent of walking roughly 13km per week in calories burned.
Every so often, your uncoordinated hands get wrangled into a game of barroom darts. If you’d like a better chance at victory instead of apologies, a few Stanford students’ web app can analyse your game and provides your personal best-chance target.
You might think Google would find the fast-growing number and popularity of ad-blocking extensions for Chrome problematic, given that the search firm rises and falls on advertising revenue.
Got that craving for two beef patties, one-and-a-half buns and some special sauce? Consider skipping the drive-thru and make your own Big Macs at home, courtesy of the Local Lemons blog’s recipe and write-up.
Windows 7: If you miss having a network activity icon that actually indicates if your network is active or not, this handy little hack will swap the static Windows 7 icon for the classic version.
