In less than ten days Windows XP will no longer be an option when purchasing most computers, despite the fact that over 208,000 people requested that the XP deadline be extended even longer. It's time to move on people, or is it?
What's going on inside of Yahoo? That's the big question of the day after learning that multiple people have left, or will be leaving Yahoo shortly. To give you a few examples, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, the husband and wife co-founders of Flickr are leaving.
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Back in the 1940's in Europe, little interlocking bricks called "Automatic Binding Bricks" were created. They had little round "studs" on the top, and the bottoms were rectangular in shape and hollow. The studs allowed the bricks to be connected together to create something, and then later on taken apart to create something different.
The other day we showed you some excellent online tools for converting from one unit of measurement to another, but as a commenter pointed out (thanks Nate!) we missed a rather awesome one. It's called Sensible Units, and while it can be used like any other conversion utility there's one thing that really makes it stand out from the crowd.
Mozilla has got to be happy that they're Firefox 3 web browser has received over 12 million downloads since Tuesday, but it took only five hours for the browser's first critical vulnerability to be discovered. Luckily details about the vulnerability have not been made public, and Mozilla has said that there's no known exploit for the bug at this time.
Last week we wrote about several functions in Google Spreadsheets that you wouldn't find in Microsoft Office. Continuing along those same lines, today online spreadsheet service EditGrid introduced what they're calling "Data on Demand."
Back in October 2007 openSUSE 10.3 hit the streets in style as it always does, and it came packed with the features that keep geeks on the bleeding-edge. In true Novell style openSUSE 11.0 is busting down the doors with over 200 new features including a redesigned installer, faster package management, KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, Compiz Fusion, and more!
Apple has good reason to celebrate today after iTunes reached its five billion songs sold milestone. Five billion songs is a lot if you think about it. To put it into perspective, here are a few examples involving the number five billion...
Did you need another new email address? We didn't think so, but you may be still interested to know that Yahoo has decided to add two new domains to their mail service. Today around 12:00 PM (Pacific), they will introduce Ymail and reintroduce RocketMail as new domains their users can use to register for new email accounts.
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).
Windows only Sticky notes are one of those things that many of us have grown accustomed to placing all over our physical workspace, and our children. They serve as a great way to remember important things, but eventually you have so many of them that it becomes difficult to find what you're looking for. That pretty much defeats their purpose, doesn't it?
Are you using Windows XP but prefer the Firefox 3 theme for Vista, or vice versa? Unfortunately Mozilla decided that Windows users shouldn't be given the option between the two themes, but it was only a matter of time before someone duplicated them for everyone to use. As you can see above I'm running Windows XP, but Firefox 3 has the Vista theme enabled.
Back in March, Ryan wrote an article questioning whether Microsoft has been losing brand credibility. These days, branding is crucial. Just three years ago, Microsoft was seated an number 11 on the list of top 100 brands, only to move to the 59th seat out of 100 more recently.
It took an astonishing 15 years to complete, but Wine 1.0 has finally been released! Wine, for those of you that don't know, serves as a way to run some Windows applications in Linux without the need for an emulator. The team has done their best to recreate the Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL's) that are used in Windows, and it all had to be done without an ounce of code from Microsoft.
In the last week we've seen two major browsers, Firefox (review) and Opera, release huge milestones for their desktop software. Just five days after the release of Opera 9.5 they are reporting that there have been an astounding 4.7 million downloads of the browser, thereby averaging almost a million downloads per day.
It's been an eventful past year for Skype. First they introduced high quality video calling in October, then they surpassed their 10 million simultaneous users milestone , followed by introducing video calling for their Linux version and then reaching their 100 billion minute milestone.
You've probably heard some buzz about reddit over the last few days with people speculating what it is they're going to announce tonight when they meet with some of their fans at a bar in San Francisco.
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).
It's been a year and a half since Mozilla shipped Firefox 3 Alpha 1, and what we saw initially wasn't very breathtaking. For this first milestone release Mozilla focused on backend improvements that would, in the long run, make the browser a better competitor in a world that is largely dominated by Internet Explorer.
