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'd be surprised if you haven't heard by now that Microsoft has made an offer to Yahoo to acquire them for about $44.6 billion in cash! It's all over the news (for good reason), and there are all kinds of ideas regarding this acquisition floating around the Internet.  Instead of talking in length about each of them, we thought we'd sum everything up into an easy-to-read bulleted list.

There have been great inventors over time who've come up with some pretty amazing inventions.  Topping the list would be modern plumbing, the printing press, the telephone, computers, automobiles, and more.  Each of those inventions will go down in history as truly changing the way we live as a society.  While there may be list upon list of influential inventions, today's Fun Friday takes a look at those that probably won't be remembered 50 years from now.