lifehack: Sunday digest

Hey, Sunday is almost over, the Google's search-request "Everybody lies" gives my blog at the 6th place among the results, and here you can see the digest of the most interesting and useful lifehacks of the weekend. Enjoy ;)

First advice is connected with netbook's desktop optimization and creating netbook-remix for your netbook under Windows XP with the help of free and open-source software. Read more and download


And if not speaking about Windows XP, there is a light-wave software for Linux in the field of to-do lists and task-management.

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.

Read more and download.

If you're looking for optimized, free and user-friendly software for your music on Windows, Linux or Mac and making synchronization of iPods and MP3-players with your PC - then Songbird will be a useful software for you.

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help!

Read more and download.

Some more about music: Lilumi wrote about useful soft for regulation of sound with mouse-scroller. Read and download.

And there are good news for those who use or develop apps under MS SharePoint Server's architecture:

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE! Be sure to watch the video (read more below) to learn more about details and future direction. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools on the SharePoint platform, all in an IT-managed environment.

Read more here and download. Other software from SharePoint-section can be seen and downloaded here.

If you've installed everything you wanted, here comes the time for the rest. Prepare for the upcoming working week: make updated list of free proxies for safe web-browsing from your office and watch the new series of the 5th season of "House, M.D." localized in Russian.

Remember to stay positive, lifehacked and enjoy the life ;)