Windows Live Writer has become one of the most popular blogging tools for Windows-based PC users.  It’s free, and a quick download which makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog.  And on top of it, Live Writer works with WordPress, LiveJournal, Blogger, and others.

One thing that I’ve always liked about it is that it’s a familiar environment that’s easy to get used to. I use Microsoft software on a daily basis, and Live Writer has

Microsoft Monday

The Desktop Window Manager introduced with Windows Vista has opened the doors for developers to create a lot of great applications for those running Vista with Aero enabled. One of the best applications that I’ve come across so far that takes complete advantage of DWM is called Switcher.

Switcher helps you manage all of your Windows, and it’s been labeled as a Mac Expose clone. If you take

Google is big on providing their services in multiple languages, but in order for that to happen they have to first get some translators. One translator in particular felt like sharing some of his recent findings. When he was translating some phrases for Google Talk there were a few that struck his attention:

• Phrase in English: Your friendsBREAKare bored
  Translation Help: First part of in-roster promo for Gmail. Not
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Sunday's Summary

Here is your week in review with Sunday's Summary! If you missed something, check it out. What was going on this week at CyberNet News with CyberNotes?

• Microsoft Monday:CyberNotes Giveaway: NoteScraps is the Perfect Post-it Note Replacement 
• Time Saving Tuesday:My Top 10 Thunderbird 2 Extensions  
• Web Browser Wednesday:Searching Google and Other Sites in Firefox...Faster!
• Tutorial Thursday:Use Any USB Drive or Memory Card with ReadyBoost on
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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.

The reason I wanted to point this program out was because it is really

Weekend Website

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.

Despite this, when someone pointed out Chesspark to me, I thought I’d give chess another shot.  It’s the classic game of chess, but it’s just met up with Web 2.0.

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: 

• Inclusion of the FUEL Javascript library for extension developers. More details available on the FUEL Wiki
• Notification support using Growl libraries on Mac OS X
• New Page Info window
  
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