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

 First things first: as you'll notice, our Saturday CyberNotes feature has changed from Weekend Warrior to Weekend Website.  I scrounged up lots of stuff about technology and travel over the last 7 months for the Weekend Warrior feature and figured it was time for a change.  As the name suggests, Weekend Website will highlight a website that fits into the category of being super cool, unusually useful, unique, or all of the above.  If you know of a website that fits into any of those categories that would be a good fit for the Weekend Website selection, email us and we might feature it.

A few weeks ago there was a conversation going on within our comments regarding the use of solid state drives (SSD) versus hard disk drives (HDD).

Eight months ago, and together with three partners, Microsoft started and funded an Open XML Translator project. Version 1.0 of the plugin has been released with plans for a spreadsheet and presentation translator plugin ready for previews in May, and a final release in November, 2007.

The Opera Desktop Team just announced a new experimental build of the desktop version of the Opera browser. The version that they are currently working on is 9.2 and when released it will have a few new features, including a usage report collection as mentioned a few weeks ago.

Viacom who owns brands like BET, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Spike TV and several others, has demanded that YouTube remove 100,000 videos.  That's over 1.2 billion streams that are to be removed immediately.

One of the major factors that is keeping people from upgrading to Windows Vista is the software compatibility factor. Not all software is prepared for Vista which can make the upgrade frustrating. There are several sites putting together lists of software as they become compatible.

Internet security is a big issue these days, and there are a variety of elements that can help keep your important information and documents safe. There's a lot of security measures out there like anti-viruses and firewalls that people are willing to pay money for, but yet they overlook one very important security measure...

It's been about a month since Apple unveiled the iPhone to an audience who generally responded with ooo's and aaah's. I'm sure everybody knows by now about Apple's exclusive deal with Cingular to be the sole provider in the United States for iPhone service. They have five years to the iPhone, all to themselves.

The RIAA sued a 16 year old New Yorker for piracy , and now he's fighting back.  That's the story in the a nutshell, but there's so much more to it.

This morning I've been watching videos of the Mandriva Metisse Linux that, in my opinion, puts some amazing 3D features features at your fingertips. All of this XGL and 3D stuff is often shrugged off as merely being eye candy, but there are four video demonstrations that really show the usability that these features can really offer.

I'm sure you've seen Snap previews before. You must have! According to Snap, over 500,000 blogs and websites use this service.  The pop-out previews are meant to be a tool that will give readers the chance to "preview" the sites that you're linking to without having to leave the site.  In the end, it's supposed to save reader's time by helping them decide if they want to click on a link.

There's good news is you were a Vista Beta Tester! According to Windows-Now.com, the Ultimate Vista key that was issued for participating in the Beta will qualify you for the Vista Family Discount.

This is the third and last part of our special Vista Edition of CyberNotes this week. We've already reviewed all of the various applications and features that are included in Vista, as well as covering some add-ons that can be used to make Internet Explorer 7 even better. I wanted to wrap up today by offering some tips and tricks on using Vista.