If someone were to ask me who I'd rather meet in person if given the choice between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, I'd pick Bill Gates. He's an excellent public speaker, and he always seems to be a humble, gracious man. Steve Jobs on the other hand, it's not that I don't like him, it's just that there's an arrogance to him that can get on my nerves.

Let's just pretend for a minute that the RIAA has come knocking on your door accusing you of using a P2P service to illegally share music, and violating copyrights. Your first instinct is what? If you're Jeffrey Howell, you:

How would you feel if your personal data was sold, (along with thousands of others) on eBay, for around 64 dollars? When we say personal data, we are talking about names, addresses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names, scans of signatures, and more.

Think Geek has been known to come up with some great April Fools products to sell on their site. Back in 2006 on April Fools Day they came up with "Wireless Extension Cords" (wireless power) to sell and under the "Availability" section of the page, they put "no suing." It was clearly a joke to some, but to others like Computer Power User Magazine, they thought it was real.

One of the things that Apple hasn't made easy for iPhone owners is providing a way to create custom ringtones in Windows. If you're a Mac owner you can use GarageBand, but Apple doesn't provide that application on Windows.

Over the last couple of days we have been monitoring a situation with Netflix regarding the problems they have been having with their shipment system. When we first heard about it, we didn't think it was that big of a deal, but now that it's been a couple of days and Netflix is still having issues, we figured it was worth mentioning.

One of the benefits of purchasing music online versus a physical CD from the store is that you don't get taxed, at least here in the United States, in states. With digital downloads becoming popular, states are trying to push a new "iTax" that would change things. Digital downloads have become a massive industry and states realize this.

If you have $200,000 in spare change lying around, you may want to consider saving it to use towards your trip to space. How will you get there you ask? The White Knight Two. It's the "mothership" made by Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites and will be the launch vehicle that will fly SpaceShipTwo up to the Earth's atmosphere.

The Improv Everywhere group comes up with some really unique things to do. You might recall that earlier in the year they "froze" themselves in Grand Central Station located in New York. I'm still now sure how they managed to attract all of the participants, but in the end it definitely turned some heads.

Those of you who saw our post on Friday about leaving on vacation already know that CyberNotes will be a little different this week. For those that didn't see it, here's what you need to know. This week the daily CyberNotes articles will be a collection of our favorites from the past. Each day there will be 10 different articles that we hand-picked to include.

We just wanted to give everybody a heads-up that our writing schedule will be a little bit different over the next several days because we're taking a quick vacation to celebrate our 5-year wedding anniversary.

We're celebrating Independence Day here in the United States today, so we wanted to give you a heads-up that this will be the last post of the day. Whether you are getting together with friends and family, watching fireworks, relaxing, or you're not even in the United States to celebrate the holiday, we hope you have a great day.

Over two years ago Ashley and I started to think about what we could do on CyberNet News that would help distinguish us from the millions of other blogs that are out there. That's when we came up with the idea to start a CyberNotes series which we would write each and every day of the week. They have since evolved into an extensive set of reviews for products, applications, and websites.

All who suffer from back aches, shoulder pain, and/or wrist and hand pain, raise your hand. There's gotta be a lot of you that do, at some point, even if it's not on a regular basis due to working conditions. Perhaps you've never associated those pains to work, but they're likely related if you spend much of your day working on a computer or mobile device.

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.

This isn't technology news per se, but it's definitely worth writing about. The question of the day is, how often should you change your oil? If you're like us, you've always been lead to believe that it was a must to change the oil every three months or 3,000 miles, whichever comes first.

If you couldn't tell by now, we're all about saving a buck whenever we can. That's why we told you about how you could get 10% off of eBay purchases through Microsoft's Cashback program. We're going to bring it up once more, only because they've sweetened the deal.

We know that many of you are programmers, and so when we saw an article over at The Wall Street Journal suggesting that Men and Women code very differently from one another, we thought it might be an interesting topic to discuss.

Verizon Wireless is about to make a pretty big purchase which will give them a pretty big title. According to Reuters, Verizon Wireless is all set to purchase Alltel Corp. (another mobile service provider) for $28.1 billion dollars. Once this purchase is complete, Verizon will take over AT&T's spot as the largest player in the U.S. mobile market in terms of subscribers.

Some of you may remember about a year ago at this time (April 23rd to be exact), we experienced our very first hard drive crash on our server. At the time we had hoped it would be the last time we needed to put our trusty back-ups to good use, but unfortunately, as luck would have it, it wasn't. Early this morning we experienced hard drive failure and so our host had to set us up with a new server.