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Link Round-Up: February 3, 2009

3 Feb 2009  Links

10 lightweight apps to make older PCs fly – If your underpowered PC is slow, put it on an application diet.

CERN Podcast – These lighthearted chats at the CERN laboratory with “a bit of particle physics thrown in” will either relieve your anxiety that the Hadron Collider might be used for evil or leave you sleepless at night worrying about what sort of idiots they let run the thing.

Five Best System Tray Applications – The Windows system tray can be so much more than a parking lot for programs you don’t want cluttering up your task bar. Read on to see the five most popular tray tools readers can’t live without.

Microsoft on Intel’s Anti-Linux – “Please Keep Confidential. This is a Nightmare” Microsoft’s dirty secrets about a fight against GNU/Linux at Intel are finally revealed.

Microsoft Throwing Xbox 360 Tupperware Parties – Social gatherings are used to sell women products of all types, everything from sex toys to botox. Now Microsoft is using “tupperware parties” to expand the market of the Xbox 360.

Softwear by Microsoft – You know that the software industry has fallen on hard times when Microsoft chooses to diversify with its own line of clothes. Insert your own punchline here. (One size fits all, don’t wear until patched.)

The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation-Y – With thousands of social networks globally, only a handful of them cater specifically to a special group of individuals, known as Generation-Y. Also known as Gen-Y or millennials, Generation-Y are individuals born between 1980 and 1995, at a volume of 80 million strong.

Ten Things your Great Grandchildren won’t Remember – IHeartChaos reflects on those things that will be only distant memories to our distant relatives. Kinda like Vaudeville, party lines, and dairy deliveries for us.

Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference – Written by award-winning author Keir Thomas, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is a totally unique and concise guide for everyday Ubuntu use. It’s the world’s most popular Ubuntu book, with over 150,000 people already having read it!

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