Super Bowl XLII was yesterday where the New York Giants just barely squeezed out a win over the undefeated New England Patriots. Like every year there is a lot of focus on the commercials that air since companies are paying millions for a mere 30 second spot.

When the first glimpse of the redesigned Microsoft Office 2007 interface hit the web people were worried about how it would affect their productivity. As it turns out almost everyone that I've talked with loves the new interface after they were given a few days to adjust.

If cameras became good enough in cell phones, would you ditch your stand-alone camera? What I mean by that is this, right now I use the camera in my phone on occasion for those times when I have forgotten my camera and there's something that needs to be captured.  I prefer a quality camera though, and so at this point, I could never stop using my camera and start using the one that comes built-in to my phone.  If however, there was a phone with a quality camera built-in, I would consider ditching my camera for one in my phone simply because it's one less device that I'd have to worry about carrying around.

Microsoft just made a big announcement today stating that Vista SP1 has been completed and was released to manufacturing. Unfortunately Microsoft is holding off on making the Vista SP1 download generally available until the middle of March because of some driver issues reported by some testers.

Back in May of 2005, Yahoo launched Yahoo! Music Unlimited, an on-demand online music service where users could pay a subscription fee to stream or download unlimited amounts of music for either $8.99 or $5.99 per month.

If there was ever any question about whether or not Google liked Microsoft, we now know for certain that they don't. Google actually wrote-up a Press Release to talk about Microsoft's offer to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Here are some of the key words and phrases I picked out of the announcement that give us an idea of how they feel about Microsoft's proposal:

elcome 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).

The Windows System Restore functionality has been around since the days of Windows ME, and it pretty rough around the edges. At that time I remember having issues with it storing viruses into the restore points that it created, and it made cleaning up other people's computers a pain because you had to wipe out all of their restore points.