As many of you probably noticed we had a few hours of downtime earlier today. It wasn't anything expected and took my host and I a little while to find the issue in order to correct it.

We all knew it was coming today and it has! Microsoft released Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP to the public. It has almost been exactly two-months since Microsoft released WMP 11 Beta 2 and now everyone can bask in the joy of the final release.

Do you never have enough room to write your comments here, or anywhere for that matter? The Resizeable Form Fields extension allows you to resize text boxes to anything that you want. I'm sure you'll find this extremely useful on blogs and in forums where it would be nice to see your entire comment without needing to scroll.

So Adobe has finally gotten around to releasing a PDF Reader that doesn't take ages to open. They call it Adobe Digital Editions and it is a Flash-based application without many options, which can be seen in the screenshot.

Last week we introduced you to the luxury submarines that coud possibly turn into the next "must-have" for those with nothing better to do with their money.  In keeping with the same theme, this week we've got wheels in mind. Big wheels.

The search box in Firefox (located in the upper right corner) can be very useful if you put it to good use. To add some search engines you could go to this site that Mozilla has put together or there is an even easier way now.

Another holiday season is approaching us and there is nothing like the mobs of people that go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. That day is typically referred to Black Friday and it earned its name because that is the one day where most retail stores are guaranteed not to be in the red (a.k.a. guaranteed to make money).

Garett Rogers is always digging through code and files on Google's websites to try and figure out what upcoming services they might be offering. He is at it again by taking a peak at Google's robots.txt file which identifies directories that should not be indexed.

About a week ago I discovered a program, called WinExposé, that clones the Mac Exposé feature very well. There have been several new releases of that software since I mentioned it which is really nice to see. In fact, it is one of the most updated pieces of software that I have ever seen.

Here is your week in review with Sunday's Summary! If you missed something, check it out.