So tomorrow is the big day…April Fools! I know I know, you haven’t had anytime to shop around for that perfect trick for your friend, but that’s okay because I’ve got you covered. :)

Anti-plagiarism site Turnitin is being sued by students for violating copyrights on 6 papers submitted to the service. Turnitin is in use by more than 6,000 universities and school systems to compare papers that students write with articles and papers from the Internet. The goal of the service is to catch students who plagiarize, but there was one detail that two students decided to target.

Despite the large number of fonts that come with operating systems, sometimes there’s a need for something different or out of the ordinary. One of the best sites I’ve come across for those times is called Urban Fonts. 

Amazon (only in the United States) is currently offering the Kaspersky Antivirus for free (actually $-0.01) after you mail in two rebates that are each worth $25. I know, rebates are a pain but it might just be worth it knowing that you are using one of the highest rated antivirus applications available.

Microsoft recently added birds eye coverage of cities around the World to their Virtual Earth service.  More than 3.8 TB of information was added, and my home-town Chicago is one of them with great shots of Wrigley Field, Soldier Field (pictured below), and other great landmarks.

YouTube recently started a new site called TestTube that is there to demonstrate some of the new things that their developers have been working on. As of right now there are two things on TestTube that are just waiting for you to play with: AudioSwap and Streams.

Firefox is known for having its inline spell checker that underlines misspelled words as you type them. I truly believe that this feature in Firefox has helped the Internet as a whole become more readable by reducing the number of misspellings in even the simplest things, like comments.

There hasn’t been much to say about the iPhone recently, it’s just been a matter of waiting patiently for the big launch. The big news today? If Declan McCullagh from News.com is correct, the iPhone will be released on June 11th!

What was originally meant to Hotmail, Microsoft has completed the re-branding for their new mail service(in beta) and now it’s officially Windows Live Hotmail. In February they made the announcement that they were going to bring together the best of both worlds, Windows Live Mail and Hotmail, and create a new name that would satisfy both old loyal users, and new users.

Sources: Invision Forums and Joke of the Day