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Have you ever wanted to extract an icon or cursor from a file? The free IconsExtract application will let you do just that in a few simple clicks of the mouse. With it you can grab an icon that is associated with one of your favorite applications, or scroll through the dozens and dozens of icons that ship with Windows.

Microsoft just publicly launched their Windows Live SkyDrive service which now offers a whopping 5GB of storage at no cost. In the testing stage users were only given 1GB of storage space, and it was only expected that Microsoft would up that to 2GB upon launch. Well, we're happy to say that they proved us wrong.

An announcement over at the Skype blog on February 13th almost went unnoticed. Skype's Villu Arak wrote up a post a week ago and mentioned how 100 billion humans have walked on this planet and the human brain has 100 billion neurons. What does Skype have in common with those two facts? The number 100 billion. That's how many Skype-to-Skype free minutes have been used among Skype users over time.

Microsoft is taking a big step today by opening their arms to the open source world. According to their press release their goal is to ""

Back in August last year, screenshots emerged which gave us an idea of what Google's Health service was going to look like. At the time we noted that the success of Google Health was largely dependent on doctors using computerized records versus the standard paper option. It appears as though Google has found a place to test out Google Health where computerized records were already in use.

Google has always had lofty goals of providing wireless Internet to the masses, and a recent article in the Wall Street Journal shows they continue to have interest. This time around, it involves balloons. Yes, balloons.The talk is that they are going to either partner with or purchase a company called Space Data Corp.

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).

Whenever I'm at home I hookup my laptop to a secondary 24" monitor to drastically increase the amount of screen space available to me. When I'm working on programming projects I will rotate my monitor so that it is oriented vertically (a.k.a. portrait mode), which I think is something most programmers do when they have widescreen monitors.