Ever since May 18th, users who were still running Vista Beta 2, RC1, or RC 2 started receiving warning notifications about the upcoming expiration.

Microsoft is refusing to be shown up by Google today with the Street View maps, so they too have launched a big addition to their Virtual Earth 3D mapping solution. Unlike Google Earth, Virtual Earth is not an entirely separate application. It is an addition to the Internet Explorer and Firefox Web browsers which adds 3D viewing capabilities for Windows Live Maps.

If you’re not the owner of a fifth generation iPod, you’re probably not aware that you can actually buy games from iTunes made especially for the iPod. If you do have a fifth generation iPod, you may have paid $4.99 for one of your favorite games like Tetris or 256 levels of Ms. Pac-Man.

Google has stepped outside (literally) with Google Maps by giving you a Street View of a few cities. It is actually pretty cool, and from the looks of it they must have mounted several cameras on top of a vehicle in a 360 degree fashion. Then as they drove along they snapped high-quality images to use with Google Maps. This is the result:

Apparently GreenBorder users have known this news for a couple of weeks now, but it’s just spreading around the Blogosphere.  On May 11th, Google made their next purchase on a long list of recent purchases — GreenBorder.  They are known for their “signature-less” approach to protect computers from viruses, spyware, and other threats by isolating each Internet session from the rest of a user’s computer.

This is a pretty exciting day because there is a new freeware application available that previously cost $39! The software is Post2Blog (Download Mirror) and it makes it easier for you to post to your blog using a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editor.

It’s been almost a year since Google acquired Neven Vision for face recognition, and finally we see one way how Google is putting it to good use. Google Blogoscoped just pointed out a new “unofficial” feature with Google images that will allow you to search specifically for faces.

Google Co-op has a pretty cool feature called Subscribed Links. Just like the name implies, a user must subscribe to a particular “link” before they can use it. Once you have chosen some of the items to use, you’ll start to see them popping up when performing certain Google searches.