AOL isn’t exactly on the top of my list when it comes to my favorite companies, and they haven’t been ever since I was forced to use them as a dial-up Internet service provider several years ago. That’s probably a story in itself though.

What do you do when AOL takes away your accounts? Hack into their network of course! A 17 year old teenager was angry that AOL took away his accounts, so to solve the problem on his own, he hacked into their network to try and get them back.

A couple of days ago I had a few minutes to spare, and so I turned to none other than StumbleUpon to pass my time.  One of my favorite categories to stumble in is humor because I always enjoy a good laugh. I happened to Stumble Upon a Microsoft site about warning messages. 

The newest version of Launchy that was just released a few days ago includes a nifty plugin called Runny. This plugin will let you add your own custom commands to Launchy so that you get the most out of the free program. I do have to admit that this is a really great feature…and below I’ll demonstrate how to use it.

Users who are still running Vista Beta 2, RC1, or RC2 will all have to forfeit their evaluation versions in the coming weeks. This is something that most users understood when signing up for the Vista pre-release program, but many still wanted to see what the next generation Windows was all about.

As you can imagine, Nintendo is doing pretty good for themselves after the huge success of the Wii. There’s no doubt that their future continues to look bright as the Wii is still hard to find, and the demand is definitely going strong.

The latest version of Picasa is now ready for download.  It’s been a couple of months since we’ve seen an update, with the last major version in February including a big update with support for Windows Vista and updated icons.

The government of India just announced plans of offering all citizens free high-speed broadband Internet by 2009– just two years away, with speeds around 2 Mb/s.  Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?

It may have been awhile since you have seen the code name “Longhorn” because Vista previously had the same code name more than a year ago.

Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows Vista, offers a really unique feature called ReadyBoost. The goal of it is to use a USB drive or memory card to increase the amount of memory that your system has to use.

I had almost completely forgotten about ICQ, the messenger that 10 years ago was “the” messenger service to have.  People including myself didn’t mind remembering the long ICQ ID number to log in, and it really changed the way people communicated over the Internet. It’s a classic, and I’m sure most of you at some point used it.

A few weeks ago we mentioned a new JavaScript version of the Google Notebook that was popping up on search results pages. We guessed that the next thing someone would put together for this would be a bookmarklet…and we were kinda close.

Stardock has just released their OjbectDock 1.9. It’s a free download that allows you to add a dock to Windows.  We’ve mentioned RocketDock previously which is similar.

We love giving things away, even if it’s a free invite for Joost! I know there are lots of people who are wanting to get in on the Joost beta, which is why we give away our invites as we get them. Unfortunately it’s only been 8 so far. Luckily Kassad, one of our readers, has offered his three invites to other CyberNet readers.

I have seen several sites reporting that the Google Calendar is going to be down nearly all day tomorrow. This is actually a misconception that came from an email Google sent out to Google Apps subscribers:

Finally you’ll have an easy and accurate way to get the lyrics to your favorite songs. Yahoo has just teamed up with Gracenotes (a digital media company) to be the first industry backed effort to provide lyrics to the millions of people who search for them daily.

Dell has taken a huge step in the world of notebook computers…they added a solid state drive (SSD) to the list of hard drive choices available on select notebook models. The two models that received the option are the Latitude D420 and the D620. It is important to note that both of those laptops are high priced and targeted for businesses, not for consumers.

Thanks to those who entered our NoteScraps giveaway– the perfect post-it note replacement! It’s a great way to keep all of your bits of information organized, and now five of you have a free license!

I do searches on sites all of the time, and Google has to be at the top of my list. According to my Google Search History I perform about 900 searches per month, which is about 30 per day. That may not seem like that many, but to me that is quite a bit.

Last week Ryan wrote about a new Firefox extension that Gina Trapani of Lifehacker made by compiling Greasemonkey Scripts that supercharge your Gmail. One of the things that really stood out then was the attachment reminder.