Ever since I released the Vista Flip3D mouse shortcut I've received a few emails from people who still prefer the Alt+Tab application switching (especially XP users who don't have Flip3D). I have since modified my Flip3D AutoHotkey script, and spun it into a different variation that works great with the Alt+Tab key combination.
This past week from Sunday February 17th until Wednesday February 20th, the Toy Industry Association was holding its annual Toy Fair. This is the place where every kid and wanna-be kid would love to be. Today's MyFive includes a few pretty nifty toys that were on display there. Be sure to click the image to enlarge it, and follow the link to the Make Blog if you want more details.
Anytime that I've needed to lookup information regarding a movie, I've always turned to The Internet Movie Database. They're considered to be "the biggest, best, most award-winning movie and TV site on the planet" and they have all kinds of information available.
As technology continues to advance there is no doubt that our ventures in space will get more extravagant. NASA, believe it or not, has plans to establish a colony on the south pole of the moon sometime after 2020.
It's Friday night and your wallet is empty. You're broke but you don't know what to do. No worries, you don't have to sit home bored without anything to do because Apple has come to rescue you! Starting every Thursday, the iTunes store will put up a movie to rent for just 99 cents. This is going to be a weekly deal.
Here at CyberNet we're huge fans of the Evernote software (review), which comes in both free and paid versions. They are going one step further by offering an online note-taking service (currently in private Beta) that will inevitably sync with their desktop clients.
If you use Gmail, you may or may not have noticed Web Clips at the top of your inbox. Until recently even though I've been a user for quite some time, I hadn't noticed it. Web Clips are news headlines, blog posts, RSS and Atom feeds, and relevant sponsored links found at the very top of your inbox. Below is a screenshot of my inbox which shows a Web Clip:
Microsoft must be extremely unhappy with the "quality" of the cracks available for Vista right now. Earlier this month we showed that the Vista OEM BIOS crack is still alive and kicking in Vista SP1 despite claims by Microsoft that those types of cracks had been patched. I would mark that up as an "oops" by Microsoft.
Back in September, the Firefox download counter rolled over the 400 million mark giving Mozilla yet another reason to celebrate over their open-source web browser. At the time, Ryan looked at their current trend in growth and estimated that around April 15th, 2008 Firefox would hit their 1/2 billion milestone. Well, it's only February 22, 2008 and they've just hit their 500 million mark.
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).
Today we're having some fun and presenting you with a few riddles that need to be solved. There are 15 in all, and the answers are found below. Have a great weekend!
For you enjoyment, the YouTube Video of the day:
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).
