I was reading this review of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, which was just released yesterday, and I remembered that I still had the ISO image sitting on my hard drive waiting to be burned. I figured there is no better time than the present so I slapped it onto a CD and got it running in no time.

One of my favorite features in Windows Vista is the ability to click on the time in the system tray and a popup window will display a calendar. I use that calendar all of the time mostly to check what day of the week a specific date falls on.

I've been wondering how the Firefox 2 downloads have been coming along and I managed to find someone who put together a live online graph of the current download rate. You can see from the chart above the big spike in downloads after Firefox 2 was released.

Zoho just released what I believe is the most useful thing that they have to offer. It is called the Zoho QuickRead extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) has become world renowned as a big pain in the butt. It isn't really the people who are pirating Windows that are complaining about how bad it is...instead it is the people who legally purchase Windows and Microsoft tells them that their operating system is pirated.

Google's Homepage has become popular because of its amazing simplicity consisting of just a few links, few buttons, and a text box. I don't think that they could make it much simpler but Joe made a post over at Google Blogoscoped with some recommendations on how they could reduce the number of clicks.

Here's CyberNet's Top 6 Coolest (or weirdest for that matter) USB Drives!