Archives for January, 2008

Password Protect Your Photos

I'm sure at some point or another you've wanted to password protect a photo that you were sending to someone else. Maybe it was a confidential image that you didn't want to end up in the wrong hands, or a personal photo that you wanted to keep secret.

January 21st, 2008
Password Protect Your Photos

Add Non-Gmail Email Address to your Google Account

Just recently, Google added a new feature so that you can associate non-Gmail addresses to your Google account. What I mean by this is that you can inform Google that you have other email accounts - maybe a Windows Live or Yahoo account.

January 21st, 2008
Add Non-Gmail Email Address to your Google Account

NBC Comes Crawling Back to Apple

Back in September when there was a ton of hype surrounding the new iPod Touch and the drop in price of the iPhone, there was also another big story over at Apple.  They announced that NBC didn't intend to renew their contract with iTunes once their current contract ran out in December.  December came and went and sure enough, NBC didn't renew their contract.

January 21st, 2008
NBC Comes Crawling Back to Apple

Shareaholic Supports More Web 2.0 Sites

Shareaholic is an add-on for Firefox that's all about helping you bookmark and share the content you come across on the web.   Up until recently, they only offered support for Firefox 2.0 and Flock. With their newest release, there's now support for Firefox 3, and they've added a bunch more Web 2.0 sites where people can share content.

January 21st, 2008
Shareaholic Supports More Web 2.0 Sites

Daily Downloads: Opera, Sumatra, and More

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).

January 21st, 2008
Daily Downloads: Opera, Sumatra, and More

CyberNotes: Vista Does Time Machine… Better

Apple touts their Time Machine feature in OS X as a breakthrough automatic backup system, but they're not the only ones that offer such a thing.  Believe it or not, Windows Vista has a feature that is much like Time Machine, except I'd like to think that it's better. I'll explain...

January 21st, 2008
CyberNotes: Vista Does Time Machine… Better

MyFive: Don’t Get Caught Dead With…

There are certain gadgets out there that while they may be considered "geeky," they're still cool to be seen with.  Other things, well, you wouldn't even want to get caught dead with! Today's MyFive is a list of some of those things you'd want to think twice about buying for the sake of your reputation...

January 20th, 2008
MyFive: Don’t Get Caught Dead With…

Vista Facts & Stats

One user over at the Futuremark forum decided to do an unofficial speed comparison of Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2, and in the end he was pleasantly surprised by Vista's performance. Here's a rundown on some of the results:

January 19th, 2008
Vista Facts & Stats

CyberNotes: 5 Worst Websites to Avoid

Usually our Weekend Website article features a site that's worth checking out whether it be an awesome online service or just a site that offers something useful.  To change things up, we thought today we'd "feature" five different web sites that you should avoid! Now, we didn't come up with this list ourselves -- Time Magazine actually came up with this list and published it as their list of the five worst web sites.

January 19th, 2008
CyberNotes: 5 Worst Websites to Avoid

Windows 7 Release Date in 2009?

TG Daily has gotten there hands on a valuable piece of information ... an early roadmap for Windows 7! Microsoft previously said that general availability of Windows 7 will be in 2010, which may still hold true. Here's the milestone estimates that was outlined in the roadmap:

January 18th, 2008
Windows 7 Release Date in 2009?

Free Kaspersky Antivirus

We've talked a lot about different free antivirus solutions in the past, and Kaspersky has always done extremely well on various tests. One free solution that they offer which you may not be aware of is Kaspersky Antivirus 6.0 Second Opinion Solution - otherwise known as Kaspersky Antivirus S.O.S.

January 18th, 2008
Free Kaspersky Antivirus

"Hacker Safe" Sites are Really Hacker Friendly

One of the logos that users have come to trust is the "Hacker Safe" label placed on certain sites. Geeks.com has that logo on their site, but that didn't stop them from getting hacked back in December. Are the sites that say they are Hacker Safe really all that secure?

January 18th, 2008
"Hacker Safe" Sites are Really Hacker Friendly

Sprint is Crawling in the Mobile Phone Race

In the race of who can attract the most subscribers keep them onboard in the mobile phone world, Sprint is crawling! Their subscribers are leaving by the thousands, and because of that, their employees are forced to leave in the thousands as well.

January 18th, 2008
Sprint is Crawling in the Mobile Phone Race

Prevent Someone From Viewing Private MySpace Pictures

For those of you with a profile set to private on MySpace, or more importantly, those of you with kids that have a MySpace profile, you'll want to pay attention.

January 18th, 2008
Prevent Someone From Viewing Private MySpace Pictures

DivShare Disappoints – No Longer Unlimited

Any of the DivShare users out there know that they've been having troubles keeping up with their excessive growth, and as a result the site has been running pretty slow lately. That's one of the main reasons we've tried to refrain from posting downloads in the last month or two on their site.

January 18th, 2008
DivShare Disappoints – No Longer Unlimited

De-cluterize Your Facebook Page

One of the things that set Facebook apart from MySpace in the "early days" was the simplicity factor.  Every Facebook page contained nearly the same categories of content and in the same order. It was clean and simple unlike MySpace pages which are notoriously known to be full of clutter and have a bad design.

January 18th, 2008
De-cluterize Your Facebook Page

Daily Downloads: Winamp, WinMerge, and More

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).

January 18th, 2008
Daily Downloads: Winamp, WinMerge, and More

CyberNotes: Dumb Laws from Around Canada and the U.K.

Back in November, a Funny Friday feature we wrote about was "Dumb Laws from Around the U.S." It included a list of some crazy and funny laws from each state in the United States that made you say to yourself "hmm....

January 18th, 2008
CyberNotes: Dumb Laws from Around Canada and the U.K.

Time Warner: More Bandwidth = More Money

Back in 1996 when my parents took the plunge and signed-up for  the Internet for the first time, they had three different options for plans. Either they could choose something like 15 or 30 hours per month, or they could pay quite a bit more to get the unlimited hours plan.

January 17th, 2008
Time Warner: More Bandwidth = More Money