Not Google+

An excellent parody of G+, and, indirectly, of all other social networks. Also, if you can read portuguese, this is a very good reading (the video embedded was in one of the comments).

Clementine

Like amaroK, without the resource-bloat. It has less features than amaroK, but given the features I actually use, that's a plus.

http://www.clementine-player.org/

TiddlyWiki

It's small, it's powerful, it's awesome. TiddlyWiki (TW) is a one-file personal wiki, that can be used as a notebook, a journal, and (quite possibly) everything in between. It does have a few setbacks though. The biggest one, is that some configurations, like the username, and default tiddlers (TW word for post), are stored in the browser as cookies. Which means that if you don't save cookie, or change browser, those settings will be reverted to their default values---not good. The solution is using persistent options. In my case, I store these options:

chkAnimate: true
txtUserName:
chkSaveBackups: false
chkAutoSave: true

One thing that I have *never* been able to do in TW, is installing plugins automatically---it always fails. Which, it turns out, is not big of a deal, because there's a really simple alternative! It doesn't work for some complicated cases, such as SyntaxHighlighter---which, by the way, is a must have plugin if you're a programmer---but for the majority of plugins, it works flawlessly. Another must-have TW plugin, if you write any math at all, is the Mathjax plugin. I installed it via the alternative method I mention above.

It can be customized ad nauseaum. Most of the settings are stored in special tiddlers tagged with systemConfig. This is the case for instance, with CSS (tiddler named StyleSheet, with no tag associated). There are also a bunch of themes, for you to choose from. Have fun!

GPU toaster!

So, to make a long story short, I finally decided to try to make my desktop computer jet engine a bit more quiet. Much to my astonishment, I discovered, with the help of the folks at MBit, that the cause of the jet engine noise was my no longer manufactured Asus nVidia Geforce 9500GT. Or more precisely, its smaller-than-a-cookie fan. Seriously. So I flipped my mental insanity bit to logical 1, and decided to turn it off (I did add another larger fan on the lateral wall of my case).

The result? My GPU's idle temperature is now at a nice and cool 77ºC :P Watching a 20 minute anime raised it to 83ºC. Well, at least now I have a pc that's much, MUCH more silent! Anyway, if anyone knows a silent, (preferably fanless) nVidia GPU with enough horsepower to play FullHD movies, feel free to drop a comment ;-)

Note: I'm not a gamer, so basic 3D render and FullHD is about all I require from a GPU.

EDIT TO ADD: the way to discover where the noise is coming from, is to stop each fan, one at a time, and see which one yields the biggest noise reduction.  The proper way to stop a fan is to press your finger against its central spindle, until it stops. It's painless, for both the fan and your finger! ;-)

Yoono!

Is an amazing Firefox extension (among a couple of other things...), that although intended to ease the management of the ever-growing plethora of social networks we are immersed in, has the über-cool feature of allowing you to use a different profile per Firefox tab! Epic win! Checkout the screencast: