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Happy birthday, Lou!

Jeff’s dad, aka Sweet Lou Bakalar, is celebrating a birthday today, but unfortunately he can’t be live on the show to go through his 10-item birthday wish list with us so we’ll have to settle on a 10-minute voice mail instead. Lou’s back, and he’s cracking down on cyclists!

We’ll play his voice mail right after the break, but before that we want to talk about two Facebook apps that plan to ruin (or strengthen!) as many relationships as they can. First up is a service called Breakup Notifier that automatically sends you an e-mail when your crush breaks up with his or her significant other, giving you the opportunity to turn your lurk into love.

There’s also Social Harpoon, an anonymous “hot or not”-style ranking system just for your Facebook friends. The app shows you two friends and judges rating percentages based on the elo rating system to show how likely each person is to “win” against you.

A school district close to my home town in Anaheim, Calif., is testing a GPS tracking device for habitually truant students. To stop kids from ditching, administrators and parents are agreeing to assign GPS hardware to students along with a tracking code that must be entered five times each day. We’re not sure this will work, though–can’t these truants just pay some hall monitor to babysit the device and check in for them?

Amazon has announced an improved feature for Prime, the $79 dollar a year service that gives customers free two-day shipping on all orders shipped from Amazon. For no additional cost, Prime customers will now get access to more than 5,000 streaming TV shows and movies on top of their free shipping options, with titles like “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “Amadeus,” and even “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”

We’ll end today’s show with our Deal of the Day. For the next month we’ll be alerting you to great online deals for tech products brought to you by our sponsor Kodak, and today’s deal is a 47-inch LG LCD TV
for $600 with free shipping. Check it out!

Happy birthday again to Sweet Lou, and thanks to Doug from PA for being super high in his video voice mail and coining a new 404ism, tag er easy!

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This article was written on June 04, 2008 by CyberNet.

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you software updates for widely used programs, and it’s safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we’ll try to note the paid-only programs).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that we can include them the following day!

–Stable Releases–

The software listed here have all been officially released by the developers.

• Photoscape 3.1 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Review]
  Operating System: Windows only
  Type of Application: Image editor
  Changes: Added new filters/effects, more icons, bug fixes, and more
• Windows Search 4.0 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Review]
  Operating System: Windows only
  Type of Application: Fast indexed search on Windows
  Changes: Performance improvements, PC-to-PC searches work between XP and Vista, and more

–Pre-Releases (Alpha, Beta, etc…)–

The software listed here are pre-releases that may not be ready for everyday usage.

• VirtuaWin 4.1 [Homepage] [Changelog] [Mirror]
  Operating System: Windows only
  Release: Beta 1
  Type of Application: Virtual desktop manager
  Changes: Supports Taskbar Shuffle, and bug fixes

–Release Calendar–

• June – iPhone 2.0 Software [Review]
• June – Firefox 3.0 [Review]
• June/July – Flock 2.0 Beta [Review] ^NEW
• June 12 – Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1
• June 19 – openSUSE 11.0
• August – Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 [Review] ^UPDATED
• September 2 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 [Review]
• October 30 – Ubuntu 8.10
• 2009 – Windows Mobile 7 [Review]
• 2009 – Paint.NET 4.00 [Review]
• 2010 – Windows 7 [Review]

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Microsoft Xbox 360 may finally be able to beat the Nintendo Wii. While Wii sales have slowed down, the console has been a top seller for some time now, thanks to the unique games, low prices, and the endless supply accessories. Now the Xbox 360 is looking to take over, thanks in large part to the success of the Kinect.

Since Microsoft has released the the peripheral, sales for the console has risen. Between the hit game series like Halo, and, Call of Duty the sales for the Xbox 360 have started to compete with the Wii at last.

It is about time that Microsoft can finally beat with Nintendo. It should be interesting to see how Nintendo will handle this, after all the big wigs on Nintendo have said that the Wii 2 isn’t coming anytime soon. 

Via Attack of the Fan Boy

AMD has plans that may not sit well with shareholders. The company is telling people not to expect a smartphone chip. However, AMD did admit that a chip for tablets will be coming out shortly.

Unlike Intel and smaller chip makers who are joining the ever-growing smartphone demand, AMD appears to have no interest in them. 

I wonder why AMD does not want to join the popular demand? However, it does take a lot for the company to issue a statement that is against the grain. Though, in the long run I wouldn’t be surprised if the company eventually changes its mind.

Via X Bit Lab

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