There is all kinds of Silverlight news going around right now because of Microsoft’s 3–day MIX Conference. It started with the announcement with Microsoft giving away 4GB of hosting space for developers to store their media, and then came one of the much awaited demonstrations…

When Silverlight was originally announced Microsoft made sure to mention some of the big companies that they had already partnered with. They obviously

Last week we mentioned the Firefox Companion for eBay that had just been announced, and at the time it wasn’t yet open for the alpha test program. Recently we were able to download the extension and give it a try. After playing around with it for the last 20 minutes, I wouldn’t say it’s something an occasional eBay user would use, but more for those who either sell, purchase, or watch items frequently.

After installing the

YouTube has just launched a service called Active Sharing as a way to get even more video views. If you decide to opt-in for the service YouTube will track which videos you have watched in the last 30–minutes and share that with other users. Your username will then appear on each video that you watch, and on your profile page there will be a list of your most recently viewed videos:

It never ceases to amaze me what people will do for money. Really, it’s appalling sometimes. I’ve seen some interesting eBay auctions before like people selling the free toiletries from hotels, but this is the first time I’ve seen people selling software that’s free from the developers on eBay. I’m sure it’s been going on for about just as long eBay has been around, but this was the first time I went and searched for it. It

Object Desktop is a nice little suite of applications that can really change the way your Windows computer looks and feels. The $50 suite includes programs to replace icons, modify the right-click menu, skin Windows, and much much more. There are so many different programs that you can install with Object Desktop that we had a hard time covering them all in our detailed review.

Things are going to be changing soon…Object Desktop

Lately it seems as though bloggers are suffering from a mentality of “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine,” in order to peek their way into the Top Favorited Blogs on Technorati. In other words, I’ll favorite your blog if you favorite mine.

In order to be included on Technorati's Top Favorite Blogs, you need to get other people to go and favorite your blog. Bloggers are setting up massive

In Ashley’s article this morning, she mentioned one of my favorite programs for Vista called Switcher. It makes use of Vista’s advanced graphical capabilities, particularly the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) to provide features that can’t be found in Windows XP. So why is it that they can’t be found in XP?

In versions of Windows prior to Vista, each program window is re-rendered (often referred to as repainting) every time you move it around the screen.