As you may have seen, we've been starting several different types of featured articles. We've been doing the daily CyberNotes for well over a year now, and that it truly one of the unique aspects of oursite.

Last month we reported that the Nero 8 download would be available to buyers on October 1st, but pirates can get it starting today! As with many high-profile applications this one has been leaked to the file sharing networks a full 3-weeks before the consumer release was scheduled. And as expected screenshots are also making their way around the Web: StartSmart, Burning Rom, Vision, and Showtime.

We've already heard over and over again that sales of CD's are down, way down. People are turning to online services like iTunes to get their music and therefore have no reason to go out and purchase entire CD's from retailers. The recording industry isn't willing to let CD sales slip away quite yet though, so they've come up with a new way that they hope will help.

AOL's decision to dump Kaspersky for McAfee was not accepted very well by the tech community.

FileZilla 3 was just released and I have to admit that I'm pretty excited to see my favorite FTP client hit this big milestone.

Go take a look at translator.live.com or translate.live.com and you'll notice that the Windows Live Translator is now live! Microsoft hasn't made any official announcement regarding it, but it's there in beta, and it works (most of the time). Alta Vista's Babel Fish Translation was probably one of the first more well-known translation services, but many more have popped up since it first launched.

It has been a pretty big week in terms of milestones. It's not all that often that sites and applications are able to boast their millionth milestones, and so I thought it would be fun to point out all of the things that have happened in the last 7 days:

It appears as though movie rentals from iTunes are on the way! This is one of those things that just makes sense for Apple to do. They already sell movies on iTunes, and they sell Apple TV which they promote as "iTunes to Apple TV, wire free," so why not rent movies to make Apple TV and their iPods capable of playing movies that much more appealing?

“Code Names” have been around for hundreds of years, although the reasons they are used have varied.  For example, militaries around the world have used code names, as do some governments and corporations . A series of posts Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet has done regarding some of Microsoft’s code names got me intrigued with  how they come up with the names that they use, and the meaning behind them.