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DonationCoder started a competition in June 2008 looking to recruit some fresh new blood apps, and it's come to a close with the winner taking home a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Suite with an MSDN Premium subscription. That prize is worth over $10,000, and as you can imagine some great apps came out of the contest.

The OpenOffice.org team makes a great productivity suite, but the developers behind the famed open source project have also tucked away a few enjoyable Easter Eggs. Several of them are your typical run-of-the-mill Easter Eggs that show the credits, but one in particular is a lot of fun.

First you'll want to fire up OpenOffice.org Calc, and enter the following code into one of the cells:

=GAME("StarWars")

After entering that in press Enter to start

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about a MSN/Windows Live Messenger Phishing site that was making its way around to people. In the comments, someone mentioned that they had a "dumb" moment and fell for it. The only way I could think to respond was, "sometimes these things happen to the best of us" and they do. You try to be on guard at all times

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One thing that Microsoft finally got around to doing in Vista is making it easier to manage the partitions on your hard drive. Using the built-in Disk Management you can do most common operations without needing any third-party tools, and in my experience it works pretty

If you shop Amazon.com frequently for books for whatever reason, maybe because they are more affordable than your local bookstore, but you miss the experience of actually looking at books on the shelf, checkout Zoomii.

Zoomii is a site I recently stumbled upon that tries to give users a "real" bookstore experience by placing books on shelves to browse through. You use your mouse to "drag" yourself all over the bookstore, and you can zoom

The olympics have officially started which means coverage around the Internet is abundant. We mentioned a couple of ways that you could keep up with the Olympics using Google, but there are PLENTY of other sites out there. Here's a quick list of places you can go on the Internet to get the coverage of your favorite sports.

If you go to Yahoo.com you'll find a Medal Count listed under the "News" tab along with

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).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that