If you're one of those that installs a lot of applications or saves documents to your desktop, it doesn't take long before you're staring at a sea full of icons and you can't find the one you're looking for.  Often times, most of those icons can go unused for months at a time which means they're just taking up space and making the important icons harder to find.

We all know that computer manufacturers tend to give predictions on the battery life that are normally not attainable, but is the OLPC also guilty of that? CNet got the idea that they should test the battery life on the OLPC to see what it truly is.

Multiple monitor setups are becoming increasingly abundant these days, and I for one couldn't imagine not having two monitors. I have a 24" Dell (1920x1200 resolution) and a 15" laptop screen (1680x1050 resolution) that I place side-by-side as seen here.

Facebook is already college classrooms these days when students become "bored" with the lecture going on, or "multi-task" by typing their notes and then catching up with Facebook at the same time.  While it may already be in the classrooms, it's being used a bit differently in a Stanford classroom this semester as the focus of a new course.

One eagle-eyed member of the Google Blogoscoped forum noticed that there was a confidential video posted on Google Video today. The intended purpose of the video was for new Google employees (a.k.a. Nooglers), but it has since been removed. Luckily Google Operating System was on top of things and took down some of the Google Reader stats.

CamStudio is one of the best free screencast recorders available, and it just got a little bit better. The developer recently released CamStudio 2.5 Beta 1 and it includes several new features that users are surely going to love. I think my favorite things are being able to select a specific window to record and highlighting the mouse clicks:

It's true, Meebo has launched a file transfer feature! Meebo is known as one of the best web-based instant messaging services available whose users exchange over 100 million instant messages each day.

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).

I've come across a lot of great feed readers before, but I don't believe any of them match up to a new one that I was introduced to by Pieter in the CyberNet Forum. It's called Newzie (Windows-only), and it has a strong focus on making feed reading as easy as possible.