I regularly follow Amazon Lightning Deals because they can turn up some big savings if you're in the market for what they have to offer. From that point of view they are like Woot.com except that Woot tries to focus on just one deal a day (with the exception of Woot-offs).

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

I'm sure at some point or another we've all noticed our system slowing down due to a "runaway" application using up all your CPU or memory. Then we go scrolling through the task manager to find and kill whatever that application may be, and then continue on our merry way. If you've found yourself in a situation like that then you may want to take a peek at SystemMonitor.

I do a lot of my shopping online, and a majority of my purchases come from either Newegg or Amazon due to their competitive pricing and speedy shipping.

I've used a lot of different password-saving programs including Roboform and Lastpass which are held in high regard by the people I know. Lastpass is nice because it works on all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and many mobile devices) as well as most major browsers. Those apps haven't found their way on to my machines though.

I resize images quite a bit on a variety of different computers, including ones running both Windows and Mac OS X. On Windows I typically use an Explorer add-on like this one, but I had never taken the time to find something to use on my Mac. During some browsing around the web I recently stumbled upon a free utility, called ThumbsUp, that handles the job quite nicely though.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

To me, a browser's address bar is one of the most important areas of the browser. Because of an increasing number of phishing attacks, the browser developers are being forced to rethink the way URLs are displayed to users.

I use Windows Media Center as my primary source for watching live TV, and last weekend I decided to figure out how I could customize the placement of menu items. For example, I don't really listen to music or look at photos on my Media Center computer so having these options visible only makes it take longer to navigate to some of the other menu rows.

A couple months ago we wrote about a free utility called WipeFile that could securely delete files from your machine using one of 14 different methods. It was designed to give you some reassurance that once you removed a particular file or folder that there would be no getting it back.

I have never looked very kindly on Adobe Reader simply because of how bloated it has become over the years. For awhile the startup times were getting longer and longer until they finally realized that users were getting frustrated, and then they started to shift some focus to performance.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

I'm sure we've all come across some text we had to work with where you had to sit there removing extra line-breaks, removing duplicate lines, and other mundane tasks.

I'm a pretty big fan of Reddit, and a lot of that is because of the awesome community behind it. Well, okay, it also has something to do with the hilarious images that are posted, but still, the community rocks.

I've been getting into using Google Voice more and more these days since I'm able to send text messages to any phone number without having to pay for an outrageously priced SMS plan.

I'm definitely a big fan of using Google Chrome, and last week I came across what has quickly become my favorite extension. The one I'm talking about is called Chromey Calculator, and with an average 5-star rating from 800+ reviews you know this has got to be good.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

Adding good search functionality to your site can often be a pain, but Sikbox wants to help make it easier. They are offering a no-hassle method to adding a search box to your site using JavaScript. Results will appear for users as they type, and Yahoo! is the search engine that powers the results.

Most current operating systems include some sort of indexed file searching functionality, and with that you can often get instant results back on any query you perform. As I pointed out a few weeks ago those tools still leave some things to be desired...

Creating a chart or graph is something we've become accustomed to using a spreadsheet app for, like Excel. When you just need to whip up a quick chart to publish on your site you may want to consider firing up a site like Chartle.net instead of that desktop app on your machine. Not only can you create impressive looking charts and diagrams, but you can also make them interactive!