ZoneAlarm decided to be generous today and offer their Anti-Spyware application at absolutely no cost for 24-hours. The program is only for Windows XP/2000, and it will rollback to the normal $19.95 price tag on November 14th at 7AM PST.

The new Mac Leopard OS has only been out for a few weeks now, and the hacks keep on rolling out for installing leopard on a PC. This time around Lifehacker's Adam Pash put together an amazing article on building a high-end desktop Hackintosh (a PC running the Mac OS) for under $800. His configuration consists of the following:

It's truly amazing what kind of art that digital artists are able to create.

We all know how important regular exercise is to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but with the demands of life, it can be hard to fit it in. Students at MIT want to help you fit that exercise in AND work (or blog, chat, catch up on news, etc.) at the same time, so they came up with an exercise bicycle that can power a notebook computer as you pedal.

I'm sure many of you open up the Task Manager at least a few times each day to shutdown a program, or to check to see which programs are eating up a lot of memory. All of the Task Manager addicts out there will love this free program.

IBM recently reported the results of a survey they conducted called "End of Advertising" to see how people felt about current methods of marketing and advertising. One interesting finding from the survey was this - 11% of the 2400 consumers surveyed said they would be willing to pay a nominal fee to view online video content free of ads.

One of the main issues that I've always had with Firefox is the extraordinarily large amounts of memory it eats up. If I'm running Firefox 2 it normally only takes a few hours of heavy use to see the browser sky rocket to more than 750MB of memory usage, and it begins eating up 40% to 60% of my processor.

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).

When preparing the Daily Downloads a few weeks back I came across a nifty little program for Windows called Pitaschio (). It caught my attention not only because it was freeware, but also because it didn't require any installation. Those two ingredients are pretty important when it comes to making a good first impression on me.