Archives for April, 2008

April 2nd, 2008
Buy from Amazon via Text Message

Each year, communicating through text messages continues to grow and has now turned into an extremely popular communication medium. Millions upon millions of text messages are sent every single month and carriers only anticipate that the number of messages sent by their subscribers will continue to grow.

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April 2nd, 2008
Daily Downloads: Firefox, Pidgin, PrimoPDF, and More

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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April 2nd, 2008
CyberNotes: Safari 3 Style Inline Search in Firefox

One of the things that I've always enjoyed in Safari 3 is the inline search interface, and just the other day I thought I would peruse around the Internet trying to find a way to do the same thing in Firefox. Why is searching special in Safari? Because it dims the background of the page that you're on, and highlights the matching results as you type.

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April 1st, 2008
Helpful Tip: Retrieve Original Images from Windows Photo Gallery

One of the nice features built-in to the Windows Photo Gallery in Vista is a "fix" option where you can edit your photos. Among the editing features are options to auto adjust, adjust exposure, adjust color, crop the picture, or fix red eyes in an image.

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April 1st, 2008
Run Downloads in Firefox Instead of Saving Them

One of the things that has always bugged me about Firefox is that when you go to download a file it will only let you save it to your computer. Some other browsers, such as Internet Explorer, also give you an option to "run" the file.

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April 1st, 2008
Safari Browser Stats for March are…

...not as good as I thought they would be. Apple brought Safari 3.1 out of Beta in the middle of March, and shortly after that they started to push Safari out to all of the Windows users who already had iTunes or QuickTime installed.

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April 1st, 2008
Google Docs Goes Offline, Finally

Last November, Zoho announced that they were adding offline editing support to Zoho Writer using Google Gears. We mentioned how ironic it was that Zoho was using Google's service (Google Gears) to make the offline editing support available, yet Google still wasn't offering any type of offline editing or synchronization option for Google Docs.

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April 1st, 2008
Scribd Will Scan Your Documents for Free?

A lot of people are assuming that this is an April Fool's joke, but the press release is already circulating signaling that this could very well be real. Scribd is well known for taking your digital documents and turning them into an online version that can easily be shared with others.

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April 1st, 2008
April Fool’s Day Around the Web

It's April first today, and most of you know what that means. It means practical jokes and hoaxes! All around the web, lots of sites are getting in on the fun and so we thought we'd do a round-up of our favorites. You may re-call some of last year's favorites like Gmail Paper Unlimited or Free TiSP Broadband Internet from Google or ThinkGeek stating they were shipping the iPhone.

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April 1st, 2008
Daily Downloads: Firefox, Photoshop, GooFoo, and More

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each geekday 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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April 1st, 2008
CyberNotes: Informer is the Ultimate Yahoo Widget

It's not often that I come across a single widget/gadget that is good enough to constitute it's own article, and I never expected to find one that would be good enough for its own CyberNotes article. When I tried out Informer, a Yahoo Widget, I was absolutely blown away at everything it could do. It's almost an entire application in itself!

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