After all of the speculation regarding what extraordinary thing was coming from Microsoft, we now know that the WorldWide Telescope is "it." Robert Scoble confirmed this yesterday and reiterated that people who have not seen the demo will think that a telescope is lame.

In their latest blog entry, the crew over at popular online photo editing service Picnik says they want everybody to be able to be a photo editing superstar. That's why they're making the features that were previously available only to premium users, available to everybody. So how is it that they're able to do this? Well, the site is now ad-supported.

iPhone users have patiently been waiting for the SDK announcement this month, which is when Steve Jobs said it would be coming back in October. It turns out that things have been a bit delayed (does anyone deliver on time anymore?), but one week from now iPhone users will likely be flying high as they find out just what the SDK will be capable of accomplishing.

Shortly after Google acquired YouTube back in 2006, they acquired Jotspot. Jotspot offered their users a place where they could create a structured Wiki that was easily updatable. Once they were acquired, we knew eventually Google would launch that used Jotspot's technology.

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).

I've been using a Vista Media Center computer for over a year to record all of my favorite shows, and overall I have been really impressed with it. The commercial skipping add-on is a real gem, and the WebGuide add-on makes it possible to access and schedule shows no matter where I am.

It's time to wrap up our last poll which received nearly 800 votes. It turns out that 48% of you like to use a mouse pad, 42% don't use one, and 10% sometimes use one. I haven't used a mouse pad in a long time, and I thought that they were starting to be phased out. It used to be that every time you purchased a new computer it would come with a mouse pad, but I haven't seen that for awhile.

Back in 2007 Opera signed a deal with Yahoo! to make OneSearch the default search engine in Opera Mini. Complaints rolled in from all of the Google fans out there, and Opera has since decided to reunite users with the Google search engine. The change will roll out on March 1st to both new and existing users alike.

This morning, popular web-based Zoho Writer (just one of many applications in the Zoho Office Suite) received a pretty major update. To refresh your memory, Zoho Writer is a full-featured online word processor. One of its best features is simply the fact that they offer real-time collaboration so that multiple users can be editing one document.

There are certain features in Google Docs that everybody seems to know about, yet there are others which are hardly known. One such hardly known feature will be helpful for times when you need to revise a document. It's built right into Google Docs and allows a user to look at two versions of the same document side by side and compare them.