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Archive for December 20th, 2007

2007 CyberNet Awards: Best Tiny Programs

December 20th, 2007
12 Comments Written by Ryan

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Over the last year we've covered hundreds of different applications, but there are only a handful that are both worthwhile and small. You may recall that we've done a post with 15 ultra tiny apps, all of which were 250KB and under in size. My favorite tiny program of the year, however, was not on that list!

The 2007 CyberNet Award for Best Tiny Program goes to...

--2nd Place:
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Firefox 3 Website Redesign Mockups

December 20th, 2007
16 Comments Written by Ryan

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John Slater, the Creative Director over at Mozilla, has given some early insight into the Firefox 3 website redesign process. Just like with Firefox 2, a new website will be accompanying the next big milestone release of the browser which is planned for early next year.

There four different design directions that they are considering: global, agile, open, and for the people by the people. The different designs can be viewed here, but

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Why Google Checkout is Good for Donations

December 20th, 2007
2 Comments Written by Ryan

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Google has setup a special page where Checkout users can donate money to their favorite charities. There are 11 charities in total that are supported, including UNICEF, Make a Wish Foundation, and the American Red Cross.

Now you may be wondering why it's such a big deal to use Google Checkout for making the donations, especially since a lot of the different charities have their

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WOW! Remember the Milk in Gmail

December 20th, 2007
12 Comments Written by Ryan

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Remember the Milk just became the task manager service on the Internet. If you're running Gmail 2 in Firefox you can install the new Remember the Milk extension. It makes use of the heavily integrated Greasemonkey functionality that Google introduced in Gmail 2, and to be honest it is nothing short of amazing.

The Remember The Milk extension adds a

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Apple Wins, Bloggers Lose…

December 20th, 2007
7 Comments Written by Ashley

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I'm sure many of you have heard about Think Secret, the blog which at one point was the place to go to hear all about the latest Apple rumors. The editor of the blog, "Nick de Plume" (an alias for Nick Ciarelli), managed to get tons of inside information right from the mouths of Apple employees. Back in December of

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IE 8 Passes Acid 2 Test

December 20th, 2007
12 Comments Written by Ryan

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Microsoft has been receiving a heap of criticism lately for their Internet Explorer web browser, and the Opera antitrust suit just added more fuel to the flames. People want to see Internet Explorer follow the standards that other web browsers have already complied with, and that will hopefully increase the number of sites that are compatible outside of the

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Get a Hulu Invitation…

December 20th, 2007
11 Comments Written by Ashley

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It wasn't too long ago that Hulu launched into their private beta - October 28th to be exact.  Hulu is a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp (Fox) which provides premium video content on demand. The only way you can try Hulu is by getting an invitation, and those invitations haven't been available in abundance... until today!

What a Hulu invitation? Here's how to

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