Over the weekend we decided to do something to keep us busy, and what we came up with was an iGoogle Gadget and iPhone Web App for checking your local gas prices (U.S. only). A full introduction to iGas is available, but here's a quick overview for those that want to dive right in:
We thought that today would be a good time to express our thanks to the machine that delivers CyberNet to readers around the world. Our Xeon-powered server runs Fedora Core 5, and it's had an incredible uptime of over 6 months. I'm sure it would be even higher than that right now, but I used to restart it once a week to help ensure that things would flow smoothly.
Not that I need any excuse to waste time, but I always keep an eye out for the "Time Wasters" that Download Squad writes about. They're usually pretty fun, and one in particular I recently got hooked on. It's called Tower Bloxx, and the flash-based game is about how well you can stack swinging building blocks. It sounds easy, but it can get tricky pretty fast.
It's here! Less than two weeks ago we gave you a preview of what was to come in the open source Spicebird application, and I'm happy to say that a public Beta is now available.
Google has good reason to cater to the iPhone and that reason is as simple as this -- iPhone users use the Internet on their phone, and they go to Google! So for Google, it makes sense that they'd want to provide an excellent experience to those who use them most. The New York Times recently reported how around Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhone users rose sharply.
Microsoft gave a pleasant surprise over the weekend for all of the Vista SP1 testers out there. Earlier last week they provided a "refreshed" version of Vista SP1 to a group of 15,000 Beta testers who've been part of the SP1 program for quite awhile. A few days later Microsoft decided that they wanted more feedback, and therefore made the Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh available to the public.
It's been just about a year to the date since Netflix dove into online movies. They did it hoping to appeal to the under 30 crowd, the ones who are familiar and comfortable with getting their entertainment content online.
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).
There are a handful of features in Windows Vista that don't get talked about very often, so many people don't realize that they're even there. One such tool is the Snipping tool which you'll find in all versions of Vista starting with Vista Home Premium on up.
