The Wii has become rather notorious for the specialized controllers that it uses to draw people into the game being played. It's very much possible that you've been using the controllers for quite some time without actually knowing what they are capable of doing.

It seems as though Apple has been getting a lot of good publicity lately, and it's definitely got to be helping their sales. The latest example is a benchmark and usability test done by the reputable Popular Mechanics lab.

The ad:tech conference is currently going on at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and one of the most interesting things to come out of it came from the mouth of NBC's Chief Digital Officer George Kliavkoff. In a nutshell, he said he wanted Apple to build a piracy detecting iTunes and to offer flexible pricing before NBC would allow their content to return to iTunes. Here's what he said:

Last week we wrote about how you could avoid traffic jams with Microsoft's new Clearflow technology, a project that had been in the works for over five years. It's not even been a week since Clearflow launched and now Google has launched their own version of a traffic predicting system. After reviewing both, each has its strengths and weaknesses.

The Pirate Bay is known for many things, and somehow the long arm of the law can never touch them. In an effort to push the limits the Pirate Bay has launched BayWords where anyone can start their own uncensored blog. They are saying that their ""

Up until recently, Alexa has been best known for ranking websites based upon users who have installed the Alexa Toolbar. Because they only used the toolbar to determine a sites' ranking, they have been highly criticized and many people have discounted the benefit and usefulness of Alexa saying that it is inaccurate.

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).

One of the questions that I get asked rather frequently is how people can take their media with them to places (normally work) without carrying a media player around. There are plenty of services out there that will let you upload, for example, your music so that it can be accessed from anywhere. But most of the time people want to stream it directly from their home machine.