Live coverage of the 2009 Macworld event, Apple’s last, began at around noon. Keep your eyes here or on Twitter for time-stamped updates straight from the keynote address.

1:37 PM EST: That’s all, folks. Apple’s 2009 keynote address has come to a close. Are you excited by what you saw today? Disappointed? Were you expecting some additional gadgets like the iPhone Nano or the Big McHugelarge iTouch? Sound off in our comments!

We’ll keep the coverage going throughout the day as more details roll in from the show floor.

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Today’s download of the day, WindowsPager, brings four virtual desktops to Windows 2000/XP/Vista. The unassuming little program uses just 5MB of system memory and brings all the Linux nerds to the yard or, you know… Doesn’t.

Though PDF is proprietary and Acrobat is trashy, the PDF remains a swank format because it guarantees every reader sees the same document free of font or formatting quirkiness. Yet no matter how super awesome PDF can be, sometimes it’s just plain better to have a document that can be edited at leisure. To that end, today’s download of the day is the aptly-named Free PDF to Word Doc Converter which does exactly as the name implies.

While moving to the Word .DOC format can spell some wacky results, the program does allow for some control in the final output. Give it a try and let us know how it worked for you in the comments!

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Today’s download of the whenever day, Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN), can wipe the contents of a drive with all manner of thoroughness. If you’ve ever had the desire to clean a hard drive to Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Department of Defense standards, well, DBAN delivers.

Just be careful. Data scrubbed with this program can’t be brought back. Ever.

Today’s stupendous Firefox addon is called TooManyTabs and boasts the swank ability to put user-specified tabs into an idle state. Tabs that have been idled no longer take residence in system memory and free those precious megs for other tasks. Any tab brought up from its sleepy slumber will be restored with all the hot state and history action it was suspended with.

Today’s quirky and obscure download of the day, VirtualScreenMaximizer, really maximizes a window by stretching the window to hide everything but the application’s controls and workspace. If you happen to use multiple monitors, VSM will make sure that every ounce of your enviable screen real estate is dedicated to displaying that application.

Today’s Firefox addon of the day, Integrated Gmail, is a fantastic find from the productivity jockies over at Lifehacker. This amazing addon turns the mail section of GMail into a collapsible window which joins collapsible elements for Google Reader, Google Calendar and Google Maps.

Given that the productivity and timeliness of my life revolves around these applications, I appreciate having a convenient dashboard to access all of them with a single tab.

The first beta of Windows Vista SP2 has just been released to the public via Microsoft’s Customer Preview Program.

Microsoft blogger Mike Nash reminds us that this CPP release is a way for enthusiasts and professionals to do compatibility testing in advance of SP2’s release date. “The CPP is intended for technology enthusiasts, developers, and IT Pros who would like to test Service Pack 2 in their environments and with their applications prior to final release,” he said.

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Today’s download of the day, Download Mover, allows a user to pattern-match files in source folders at regular intervals so they can be moved to any number of destination folders.

Rather than whiling away the hours with manual folder organization, let Download Mover clean up that nasty dump you call your download directory.

I have a fascination with useful programs that depend neither on the registry or system folders. Those utilities that consist of only an executable? Even more delicious.

This is why I am always so excited about PortableApps, today’s download of the day. This popular, open, and completely free platform provides a launcher and an endless array of popular applications that fit with isolated cleanliness on any external storage.

From IM clients, to browsers, to management utilities, the PortableApps platform delivers countless options without a single byte of registry data.

While the popular media encoding program Handbrake has been available for some time, recent updates have made it vastly better than ever. The newest version of today’s download of the day now accepts input from virtually any media source, not just DVD! Though DVD decryption support has been axed from the latest version (boo DMCA), the new features should more than make up for the loss.

We don’t endorse anything untowards, but we can’t help but imagine the possibilities presented by AutoGK. You provide the DVD, it provides quality DiVX or XViD files at the touch of a button.

It’s simple, it’s fast, it’s feature-rich, and it’s not crapware. We’re loving this bloat-free week.

At this week’s SuperSpeed USB DevCon, the robustness of the freshly-minted production standard for USB 3.0 was shown to onlookers.

While retaining backwards compatibility with the current ecosystem of USB devices, the new specification was demonstrated by moving an uncompressed 30 FPS 1080p stream along at 450MBps. This system is expected to be used in the company’s future HDTV transmission products.

The official USB 3 standard is expected to hit the shelves in equipment by 2010.

Armed with QuickPath Interconnect, Intel’s new Core i7 CPU has a whole suite of multipliers and frequencies that make overclocking more complicated than ever. To keep track of the dizzying array of clockspeeds and multipliers, we’ve developed NehalemCalc to do the number-crunching for you.

For a peep, a rundown and a download, pay a visit to the content after the jump.

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There’s no better a time to return to our love affair with Mozilla’s darling Firefox than with today’s announcement of the “Fashion Your Firefox” campaign. This new initiative bundles a variety of popular addons together to serve the needs of nine distinct personalities of internet users.

Are you a Shutter Bug? Rock Star? News Junkie?

Adopt a profile or mix’n'match your own with the checkboxes, then get started with your more productive life by installing them at the touch of a button.

Is there a so-addicted-to-news-we’ve-started-hiding-RSS-feeds-under-our-toenails package?