We've previously written about the relatively good deal that Newegg offers on ESET security software, but it just got a little bit better. Until Monday, December 17th you can get the standalone antivirus software for $20 out-the-door. A 1-year subscription typically runs $40 straight from ESET for NOD32, so you're getting 50% off plus a physical CD rather than just a download link.

PhraseExpress is one of our favorite freeware applications because of the sheer power it harnesses. They're stepping up their game with the new PhraseExpress 5 that is slated for release sometime next month, but in the meantime they have a Beta version that you can kick around.

Back in October we knew that Mozilla was going to spend a lot of work making Firefox 3 fit into the different platforms available. Alex Faaborg, a User Experience Specialist over at Mozilla, just wrote about some early renditions of what the cross-platform icons will look like. He said that on "."

Here I thought Google was only in love with the iPhone but it turns out that they have a little love left for BlackBerry's too! Proof of that is they recently launched Google Sync which will allow BlackBerry users to synchronize their BlackBerry calendar with their Google calendar.

Flickr just announced that Pro members ($25 a year) are now able to keep track of stats for their photos! That's right, you can actually see what photos are popular for today, this week, or over all time. You'll also be able to view where people are coming from that are viewing your photos (what search engines, websites, etc...), and a handy graph will plot your traffic in an easy-to-read fashion.

Most of you know by now that Paint.NET is one of my favorite image and photo editing solutions.  Of course it's free which is part of the reason, but the big reason it ranks high on my list is because it's basic yet offers some advanced, more powerful editing features.  To boot, it's easy to understand and to use which is important.

Opera issued a press release today announcing an antitrust complaint that they filed with the European Commission. In the complaint they argue that Microsoft should be required to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows, and that the browser should follow the Web standards that many other browsers are already compliant with.

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).

Over in the CyberNet forum, Pieter posted an awesome tip for Linux users where you can actually create a shortcut to forcefully terminate an application. This is handy in situations where a program, such as Firefox, freezes up and won't shutdown. I figured there had to be a way to do this in Windows as well, and so I started searching around.