We wanted to give our readers a heads up that we are officially launching the CyberSearch Firefox extension tomorrow morning, but you can get your hands on it right now! It is based on the original version of AwesomeSearch, which is now called Searchery. We had contacted the developer of that extension with some of the ideas that we had, but unfortunately we never heard back from him.
In the fall of 2008 Princeton will join the ranks of Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley by offering some textbooks on Amazon's Kindle e-reader. The Kindle sells for $359 by Amazon, and uses Sprint's high-speed EVDO data network to let customers download new books on-the-go. The device has actually been more popular than I anticipated, and it's now catching the attention of universities.
Are you iReady? If you're not, AT&T and Apple are finally releasing all of the information necessary to make sure that you are.
Google might not be actively working on the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox, but that doesn't mean you can't sync your bookmarks, tabs, passwords, and more! Mozilla just released Weave 0.2, which is a major milestone for their homegrown extension.
Digg is trying to make the process of discovering new content a little bit easier by introducing The Recommendation Engine which is currently in the beta stage and available to of Digg's registered users. Digg's Kevin Rose posted about this new Recommendation Engine and said that there are now more than 16,000 stories submitted every single day in the Upcoming section.
One of the problems with using Flash on a website is that search engines like Google and Yahoo are unable to read the content of the files encoded in the Flash file format. This can keep people from using Flash on their sites for obvious reasons.
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).
Many of you probably sit in front of a computer for much of the day, and type the same things over and over again. That's why the free PhraseExpress for Windows has quickly become one of our favorite apps.
