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* A new service [Jaxtr][1] lets people call you from your MySpace, Friendster and other social networking site. With the Jaxtr widget a user enters their mobile number and their phone rings, on answering, a call is put through to your phone. Should be handy for stalkers.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-14T114828Z_01_N13329642_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-TELEPHONE.xml&src=rss "Jaxtr debuts"
* Joining what will no doubt be a growing string of silly predictions as the year draws to a close, tech research and analysis firm Gartner claims that [Vista will be the last major update][2] to the Windows OS. According to Reuters, Gartner believes "the era of monolithic deployments of software releases is nearing an end and Microsoft will participate in the trend toward more flexible updates." Because as we all know the world's existing OS code bases cannot possibly be improved any more.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-14T135332Z_01_N13326302_RTRUKOC_0_US-GARTNER-PREDICTION.xml&src=rss "Gartner predicts no more windows"
* Attention Anton Levy fans, there is now a ["satanic" edition][5] of the popular Ubuntu Linux OS. Actually it's more like a theme than a bona fide distro, but who can pass up a slogan like "The Distro of the Beast?"
[5]: http://parker1.co.uk/satanic/disciples/ "Get your satanic Ubuntu"
* And finally, we do love a good "hack" even if it's not software, which is why we were blown away by this [scooter "hack"][3] on the Make blog. [found via [BoingBoing][4]]
[3]: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/12/scooter_hack.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 "Make Blog presents world's greatest scooter hack."
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/14/worlds_greatest_scoo.html "BoingBoing on scooter hack"
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