Apparently when Microsoft was designing the Royale theme for Windows Media Center (the one with the glossy look) they were also pondering whether to release a black version. Apparently they decided against it but it has somehow made its way to the web.

I was just reading through the forums for NOD32 and noticed that Eset released a Beta version of their popular antivirus software. The big thing with this version is that it is now Vista compatible...but it also has some cool new features!

Videos have turned the Internet upside down ever since YouTube popped its head out of the binary world. Since Google recently acquired them for $1.65 billion that gives other video hosting companies hope that they can be the next big thing to get bought out.

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!

Google just added a new feature to their Alert System that will let you be notified when a blog post matches the search criteria that you specify. Up until now you could search things like the News and the Web but blogs are becoming an increasingly popular source for news...so they now let you receive alerts for those too.

It has been awhile since I have checked on Calgoo and just yesterday they released a Second Draft. I have been using Google Calendar so intensely that I decided to give it a fair shot.

The My Dream App contest has finally come to an end and the 3 winners were revealed. Each of the winners will receive a MacBook and 15% of the royalties that come from the sales of the Mac program after it is developed. Here are the three applications with Atmosphere taking home first place:

Now I have seen some blog makeovers before but I think this one definitely takes the cake. The Windows Vista Blog now bears some resemblance to the Windows Vista Homepage by using some glossy buttons and loads of transparency.

The excitement continues with the release of Ubuntu 6.10 today! You know what is really amazing with Ubuntu 6.10 is that they were able to make their scheduled release date without having any setbacks. So what's new in this release?

It has crossed all of our minds at one point or another but this is a more official idea on what would happen if Microsoft owned Firefox. In fact, there is a website dedicated to it:  MSFirefox.com.

Many times I am skeptical about installing new applications because I don't know what they will end up doing to my computer.

Back in July Mozilla announced World Firefox Day in hopes of spreading Firefox even faster.

I have kept myself busy for the past day or so working on a nice release calendar system to display in the sidebar. I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to do it but after a little research I was able to put together what I think is a nice solution.

I have been using Paint.NET for months now and it is one of the free programs that I use the most. I have actually received several emails in the last week regarding their Alpha 1 release and now there is actually a newer Alpha 2 available.