One of my favorite Firefox extensions, Locationbar², has finally been updated to work with the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 4. It can be used to make the domain that you're currently viewing stand out more than the rest of the URL, which makes users less susceptible to phishing attacks.

You may recall that midway through last year we saw a feature very similar to this make its

Google has decided that they want their users to help make Google Maps as accurate as possible and so they have bestowed upon them editing rights. Now any user who is logged in to their Google account will be able to edit a place on the map, including move the marker. At this point, only those living in the United States, Australia and New Zealand can make edits. To me, this is an open invitation

We've always been a huge fan of the Simple Machines Forum (SMF) software that powers our forum, and I've recommended it to a lot of other people. This free forum software is about to get even better as they just made the first public version of SMF 2.0 Beta available, and after 18-months in the making it looks pretty darn nice.

Before you

I'm sure there are quite a few nerds tech-savvy individuals out there clamoring to get their hands on a computer that uses a Solid State Drive (SSD), but the pricetag is a little daunting. For example, to get a 64GB SSD in the MacBook Air it will run you an extra $1300. Dell doesn't murder you quite as much since they only charge $650 to get

A recent blog post over at the Google Docs Blog explains a new way that Google is taking collaboration even further by giving developers the opportunity to create gadgets for Google Docs. They say that "developers now have an easy way to both add features to Google Docs and to pull collaborative data from Google Docs into gadgets on iGoogle and other platforms." At this point there are only gadgets available for spreadsheets, but

There are three questions in the news today regarding Apple that need to be answered:

1. Is Adobe developing a Flash Player for the iPhone?
2. Is there going to be Hulu for iPhone?
3. Will Apple be offering iPhone and iPod users an unlimited music package?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Adobe has started to work on a

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).

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