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You might receive mixed results with the program below, but I thought this new application was definitely worth a mention if only for the idea that it presents. It is called Vystal (Download Mirror) and its goal is to add an Aero-like glass effect that you would experience in Vista…except now you can have it in Windows XP.

I’m sure there are a few chess fans hanging around CyberNet.  I can’t say that I really enjoy chess, but that’s more because I’ve only played it a handful of times and most of the time, I lost miserably.

Mozilla just posted Firefox 3 Alpha 4 (code name Gran Paradiso) for everyone to download. Before you go jumping around with excitement, I’ll be the first to say that this release doesn’t have anything that great in it: 

There is finally a decent BitTorrent client for the Firefox browser and it goes by the name of FoxTorrent. When I originally saw this Firefox extension make its way out in March I got pretty excited.

Pretty big news was just released by MacRumors.com which mentions a recent notice that Apple sent out to all iTunes partners who sell music on the iTunes store. The message said:

There were a lot of unhappy Google Personalized Home Page users yesterday who were ready to throw the towel in after a glitch caused some of the home pages to go back to an older version, and revert back to default settings.

Pingdom is big on monitoring websites for downtime and is truly an amazing service. You can pay a monthly fee to have Pingdom monitor your own site, but they also have a service called Pingdom GIGRIB that currently monitors 2,000 websites across the Web.

Yesterday we wrote about the new Beta 3 release of Windows Server Longhorn which is now available for public consumption. That’s right, if you don’t mind playing with pre-release software, Microsoft will give you a working serial number that will work until April 7, 2008.

We’ve given away several invites to Joost now (thanks to several or our readers for giving their invites away), so for anybody who’s gotten to give it a try, what do you think of it?