This is just a quick note to all of our readers to let you know that this week will be a bit different in terms of a writing schedule because we are moving! As many of you know from reading us (or if you've read our About section), Ryan and I are both from the Chicagoland area, but we've been living in Iowa for the last 4 1/2 years to go to school at Iowa State University.

It's been 50 years since the LEGO brick was patented, and since then hundreds of billions of the beloved little pieces have been pumped out of factories for your building enjoyment. What's even harder to believe is that the LEGO bricks being sold in stores today will still work with the originals dating back 50 years!

Alert! Alert! Danger Alert! According to the New York Times, you may want to watch for a "small-bus" sized object falling from the sky in late February or early March.  Apparently there is a United States spy satellite which can no longer be controlled due to power loss which will be plummeting to Earth soon.

This was sent to us as a tip from "kiltboy," and after reading it we just couldn't help but write about it. It's a story about a New York taxi cab passenger who had found a camera left behind by someone else when they got into the cab. They used the 350 pictures and 2 videos that were on the camera to hunt down the owners:

With all the buzz surrounding Windows 7 in the last two weeks it comes as no surprise that there is a supposed leaked copy floating around the Internet. Torrent sites quickly picked up on the "leaked" version of Windows, and after that it started to spread like wildfire.

We all know people like free music and this was proven a few days ago when Last.fm launched their free on-demand streaming music service (with limits, of course).  They saw a HUGE spike in listeners, page views, and unique visitors shortly after it launched.  Knowing how much people love free music, it is then easy to understand why there has been so much hype surrounding a new start-up called Qtrax.  Qtrax uses the words "free" and "music" quite a bit on their site to describe "the worlds first, 100% legal and free Peer-2-Peer music application." They were set to launch last night at midnight and early reports were praising the service to no end, especially since they said they had all 4 major record labels on board and more than 25 million songs to choose from.  All of the praises started to come to an end once people found out the real details...

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).

We've been using the Windows Vista Media Center as our primary way to record shows for about a year now, and our experience has been really good. It's a lot like Tivo, but one thing that really makes me love the Vista Media Center is its extensibility. Yes, third-party developers can create awesome apps that leverage off of your Media Center's capabilities.