Archives for June, 2008

Integrated Email Client for Firefox

Having an email client that is built-in to the browser is one of those things that you either love or hate. Both the Opera and SeaMonkey browsers include this functionality out-of-the-box, but if all you're looking for is basic emailing capabilities you may have to look no further than a Firefox extension. The Simple Mail extension brings POP, IMAP, and SMTP support to Firefox.

June 28th, 2008
Integrated Email Client for Firefox

CyberNotes: Get Company Reviews and Salary Information

When I was in college, one website I always checked before a new semester started was "RateMyProfessors.com." It's a site dedicated to rating professors. Students can create an account, and then rate the teachers they had for all to see which helps out future students so that they know what they're getting into before school starts.

June 28th, 2008
CyberNotes: Get Company Reviews and Salary Information

Microsoft Says Farewell to Bill Gates Today

Today is the day that Bill Gates walks away from his roll at Microsoft to move on to his philanthropic work. After 30 years, his final day at the company he founded is here. Microsoft has been planning his departure for the last two years and have done various things to celebrate Gates' time with the company.

June 27th, 2008
Microsoft Says Farewell to Bill Gates Today

Create Panoramic Screensavers & Videos

Panoramic images have been something that I've been trying to do more often, and a lot of that is due to how easy it is to stitch together multiple photos. Plus the new Windows Live Photo Gallery is capable of taking multiple photos and stitching them together to form a full panoramic shot as well. Once you have taken a marvelous panoramic photo you have to do it justice by showing it off.

June 27th, 2008
Create Panoramic Screensavers & Videos

Helpful Tip: Create ZIP Archives Without .DS_Store on a Mac

One of the things that I really don't like on a Mac is how it includes hidden files and folders when you create a ZIP archive.

June 27th, 2008
Helpful Tip: Create ZIP Archives Without .DS_Store on a Mac

Get Access to Millions of Songs with Jogli

We know many of you appreciate online music services, so we wanted to point out Jogli. It's a fairly new music search engine. They scan the internet to find music and music video clips, and then because they're a search engine, they index it all so that when people do a search, the music they are looking for is easy to find.

June 27th, 2008
Get Access to Millions of Songs with Jogli

IE Users Susceptible to Critical Vulnerability

Browser vulnerabilities are nothing new, and they are constantly popping up no matter what software you're using. Today, however, there's an especially eerie one that Ghacks found which currently affects almost all versions of Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8. It's capable of recording all of your keystrokes even after you've left the site that you were visiting.

June 27th, 2008
IE Users Susceptible to Critical Vulnerability

Blogger Gets Embedded Comments, Drag & Drop Images & More…

Google's Blogger service has turned into one of the most popular blog publishing systems available. Thousands of people use the service pretty regularly, and over the last several years since Google acquired it, they've added some new features which make it even better.

June 27th, 2008
Blogger Gets Embedded Comments, Drag & Drop Images & More…

Daily Downloads: uTorrent, Cobian, and More

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you 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).

June 27th, 2008
Daily Downloads: uTorrent, Cobian, and More

CyberNotes: Is it a fact? A Tribute to MythBusters

You've seen that show MythBusters before, haven't you? If you haven't, you're missing out. It's a show on the Discovery Channel that focuses on "busting" myths. They take a variety of rumors, popular beliefs, and urban legends, and then put them to the test to see if they're really facts, or just myths.

June 27th, 2008
CyberNotes: Is it a fact? A Tribute to MythBusters