So you're browsing the web and come across an image that you want to save to your computer. There are various ways that you can go about doing this. For example, in Opera you can hold down the Control key and click on the image. You'll then be prompted with the Save-As dialog just as you would have if you

It's coming up on one year since Dell started selling computers that are preinstalled with Ubuntu Linux. Towards the end of last year some stats started rolling in saying that Dell had only sold 40,000 Ubuntu machines, which equates to about 220 units per day. That's not too shabby considering the only form of advertising for the Dell Ubuntu machines is by word

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about how Apple posted a job for a handwriting recognition engineer to create technology that "may extend beyond Mac OS X to other applications and the iPhone." With that we were wondering if Apple has plans in the works to incorporate handwriting recognition into the iPhone. Well Apple, we have news for you. There's no need to reinvent the wheel and spend time coming up with the

Back in October of 2006, Microsoft filed a patent for a new type of mouse and recently that patent was just published. Thanks to it being published, we now have a glimpse into what a future mouse from Microsoft might look like. It's a wearable design and not only does it look kinda cool, it's actually pretty clever and practical as well. The images below help give us an idea of what it's all about:

Remember the Psystar company that we wrote about yesterday? They are the ones who make the Open Computer that is capable of running Mac OS X, and they'll even go as far as to preinstall it for you. Because their prices are surprisingly reasonable there has been some concern raised as to whether the company is a scam.

Yesterday the Guardian decided to delve

Yesterday we quickly mentioned that Google was set to launch Google Earth 4.3 sometime in the evening and we outlined some of the features that it was going to have. The new version has launched and now that we've seen it in action, we decided more needed to be said. Google has really done an amazing job with this version, particularly with the lighting effects, the new navigational gadgets, and the way they implemented

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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