Over at ZDNet, Garrett Rogers is always pretty good about keeping tabs on Google. Recently he stumbled upon a new service that Google doesn't want the public to see quite yet because it was added to the robots.txt file.

How many times have you plugged a device into your computer only to find out that the operating system doesn't have the drivers you need to run it? Depending on how new your operating system is you should find that device recognition is fairly good... Vista alone ships with over 19,000 drivers for devices that you use everyday.

When the "Get a Mac" campaign started back in 2006, most everybody (PC and Mac users alike) got at least a little chuckle out of the commercials. They funny. At some point though, it started to get a little old.

In 1993 a project called Wine was started as a way to run Windows applications on Linux without using an emulator.

Last week we wrote about how Apple was trying to push the Safari "update" on any computer with the Apple Software Update installed, regardless of whether Safari had ever been installed before on the machine.

When someone starts talking about working at Google, one thing that usually comes up is the 20% time. Google employees, engineers in particular, are supposed to be given one day per week to work on a project of their choosing. On the Google Jobs page it talks about "The Engineer's life at Google" and one of the perks they mention is just this. They say, "." Sounds nice, doesn't it?

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).

A couple of weeks ago, Ryan put together a list of reasons why he loves Windows Vista Media Center. Among his reasons were appearance, the option to add multiple tuners, and the fact that you can purchase an Xbox 360 and use it as a Media Center extender.