It's time for a new poll today! The results from the last poll regarding how long you've been reading CyberNet News is pictured to the right. Well over half of our readers have been with us for over 6 months, and we're extremely grateful for that! Those of you who have been reading us for over 2-years... all I can say is wow!

Regular expressions are one of those things that are incredibly powerful... if you know how to use them. It has taken quite a bit of time for me to learn the ins and outs of how they work, but once you get the hang of them there is almost always some variation that can be used in the different programming languages.

It's been almost a year since Google announced that they wanted to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. That happened about mid-April last year, and the deal finally and officially closed on March 11th of this year.

The other day we wrote about a nifty Yahoo widget called Informer that's an extremely customizable toolbar. One of the commenters, "Change," was wondering whether there's a way to reserve the screen space associated with toolbar like Informer so that other applications won't cover it up.

We know that the iPhone has had a pretty big impact since it launched, but we haven't really seen the details of the impact it has made on the public. A recent article over at the Apple Blog on Fortune's site discussed findings from a survey that was conducted where 460 iPhone users in the United States were randomly selected and then surveyed over the use of their iPhone.

Over the last year or so, we have watched as Apple's iTunes has become an ever increasing influence in the music industry. It was just last June (2007) when they passed Amazon and took over the #3 position as largest music retailer in the United States.

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).

The biggest reasons that I hear as to why people don't perform backups is that they are either too lazy to set them up, or there just isn't a good time to schedule them. The later excuse is often because they don't want to "waste" their computer's processing power and memory performing a backup when they are actually trying to use their computer.