If you're a regular reader of CyberNet, you probably know of my love for StumbleUpon, the popular service which helps users discover and share web sites. I've been a fan ever since I installed the Firefox extension for the very first time a couple of years ago. From the time the service launched until July of 2006, it was available only to Firefox users. Then they added support for Internet Explorer users, but everybody
A lot of people think that Microsoft has got to be a great place to work because of all the money they make, but there are a lot of things that needed to be cleared up. Microsoft's own On10, a site dedicated to new technologies, took it upon themselves to resolve the misconceptions that are floating around out there.
The video, which I've embedded below, discusses things like how serious the workplace actually is,
Something you may not realize is that Firefox has a setting that will prefetch websites and images to improve the user's browsing experience, and it's actually enabled by default. It will utilize your browser's idle time to prefetch images and websites as determined by the webmasters.
Mozilla has an entire page setup to describe how the link prefetching mechanism works, and here is the summary that
A few different people have posted screenshots of Windows 7 Milestone 1, which is a very early look at what's supposed to be released in 2009 or 2010. The last time we saw screenshots of Windows 7 Milestone 1 there wasn't really anything that exciting, but a Russian site (English translation by Google) has really busted the lid off of any mysteries.
Aside from the article that was written there are also
It's Valentine's Day and sites around the web are celebrating. Below you'll find a collection of screenshots that we took from different sites around the web that are celebrating Valentine's Day in some way or another.
MSN
They threw some hearts behind their logo and added a red gradient to the background.
YouTube
A new logo graces the YouTube homepage today.
It just doesn't seem right to be writing an article about a shortage of a game console that isn't the Wii. We've been writing about those Wii shortages for a long time now, so when "shortage" was combined with "Xbox 360" it was surprising to say the least. It's true though, Microsoft has announced that they are seeing shortages of the Xbox
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 in