One of my favorite events of the year is the Bill Gates Keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). That's typically where he shows off gadgets that many of us know are like 20+ years away, but it's cool to watch nonetheless. One such example is the technologically advanced bedroom that Gates demonstrated at CES 2007, which is pictured above.

Bill Gates' CES 2008

Over in the CyberNet Forum, Richard pointed out a post from Download Squad that explained how you could surf the web on a Windows XP Computer by accessing a help file in a Windows application like the calculator. This would be useful for times when you're in a public place and the administrator disabled the web browser so that you couldn't surf the web.  The only problem is that the trick (which I'll

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing something or working on a project in Microsoft Word and it would have been helpful to be able to select text vertically. It never occurred to me that it was even possible to do such a thing! To my surprise, I learned that in fact you can select text vertically in Microsoft Word, thanks to an article over at the How-To Geek site.

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There's a new blogging engine on the block, and it's simple and clean. It's called Chyrp and it was designed to be light as far as weight is concerned, but still full of functionality. Could this engine end up moving in on WordPress's territory? I think it's possible, but it would definitely take some time before people felt confident enough to make

Those of you who didn't scoop up the free deal for Pocket Informant last time, you have yet another chance to redeem yourself. All you've got to do is head over to this site, add Pocket Informant 2007 to the cart, and during checkout enter in the PIFREE coupon code. Remember, this software is for Pocket PC users only.

It's pretty apparent what

Ask.com has just added a new and free voice activated directions service to their Mobile site so that users are able to speak their location and then speak their desired destination and receive directions on their mobile phone.  When I first read about it, it seemed like it was Ask.com's response to GOOG-411, except they were trying to take it a bit further. I decided to put the service ,which is called "Click to Speak"

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).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across