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Help? What’s THAT?

Ever submit a problem and have the vendor flat out say “It’s not our problem?” It’s more than a little annoying in this day and age. I really thought that the PC universe had evolved beyond that kind of blatant BS. Boy, was I wrong!

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End Of An Era

Did you hear that sound? It was the nearly silent sound of a long era come crashing to an end. Nearly every computer user knows the name WinZip. What may or may not have come to your attention was that the company (for company it was) was recently acquired by Corel Corporation.

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Mouse Wars: Logitech Vs. Microsoft

Two of you might remember when I wrote about my search for a cordless mouse and keyboard replacement. Well, as happy as I was with the one I picked, the mouse was flaking out. Here are the two posts.

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Google Aims For The Moon

Google has pretty much taken over the Earth (as in its Keyhole service). Now it’s raising its sights. It wants the Moon, as well. Yes, it’s true: its online mapping service now covers the Moon!
Well, to be honest, it doesn’t exactly COVER the Moon, but it has a good start and I hope it keeps […]

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Where Art Thou, Apple?

Having followed the Apple Corp. for the last 20+ years, I find it vastly amusing that it will now be powered by Intel engines. Basically, that means that any of us (with some tweaking) will be able to run Apple’s oh-so-pristine operating systems, given the desire to do so. Considering the attitude of the average […]