February 2006...the fun continued with a delay in the first pre-release version of Firefox 2 and a free Flash Drive offer from Microsoft that apparently no one received.

As the New Year shines upon us (about 9 hours away in the United States - Central Time) we thought we should start recapping the events from the year. A few days ago we made a post looking back at the Firefox news but now it is time to broaden the scope a little bit.

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

It appears that Microsoft is doing even more to help promote the upcoming launch of Windows Vista. Now they are sending out 5,000 Vista Launch Kits that come with all kinds of goodies:

PayPerPost caused quite the buzz, and controversy when it launched back in June because they pay bloggers to write about advertisers' products. Now they're in the news again, acquiring parts of Performancing.  Performancing, a blog advertising network, has been one awesome tool for Bloggers to use. We too at one point used some of their services.  On their website, Performancing announces that PayPerPost has acquired their metrics and classifieds exchange.

Have you ever wondered what makes Newegg.com (a popular online electronics store) function so smoothly? Newegg brings in over $1 billion in sales each year, has more than 1200 employees located around the globe, stocks over 60,000 different products, and fulfills 25,000 shipments each day.

With the increased availability of USB peripherals, there has also been an increase in travel sized USB peripherals for those times when you're on the go. When you're traveling, there's nothing more annoying than bulky accessories that take up your space.  Below you'll find a few USB devices that just might make your travels a bit easier, or lighter for that matter.

Are you still looking for that perfect online RSS reader that fills your stomach with butterflies every time you use it? Make sure you give Gobits a whirl before you settle in because I have to admit that they did an amazing job of utilizing AJAX to make this RSS reader feel like a desktop application.

Some of the most popular software in use on computers is open source. Personally, I would rate Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Gaim, FileZilla, Apache, and Thunderbird to be my favorite open source applications. That doesn't sound like much, but that's because I use a lot of freeware applications in addition to the open source software.

In the battle of mail storage, Windows live mail has just announced that their Windows Live Mail Plus will be $19.99 for 4GB of storage.  That is 2 GB more than what Yahoo! Mail Plus has to offer for the same price. So for now, Windows Live Mail Plus sits as King of the Hill. Other features that you can expect from Live Mail Plus: