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IPOD SKINS

There are several thousand accessories for iPod owners - here's one that would make a great stocking stuffer. Gelaskins makes particularly gorgeous skins, thin vinyl printed with...

FLIMSY TECHNOLOGY

I frequently rant about the declining quality of hardware and software. Here's an article blaming manufacturers: "Now computers are fast enough, mobile phones are small enough...

DISPOSABLE E-MAIL ADDRESSES

Some web sites require an e-mail address and send a confirming e-mail message to activate an account. The "confirmation" might be an excuse to get an e-mail address that can...

IE7 & QUICKBOOKS

Some versions of Quickbooks are incompatible with Internet Explorer 7. It's hard to say why IE7 came as a surprise to Intuit, but only now are patches appearing to make recent...

IE7 & THE LANGUAGE BAR

The Windows XP language bar reappears in the lower right-hand corner after installing Internet Explorer 7. It makes it easy to change the default language used by Windows XP, or...

GADGET SLOWDOWN

It briefly looked as if we would be awash in a sea of new gadgets for the holidays, but the flood turned into a trickle - and a pretty disappointing trickle, too. Two missteps...

WINDOWS VISTA RTM

Microsoft completed its work on Windows Vista and released it to manufacturing, beginning a ten-week process of pressing DVDs, putting them into odd looking plastic cases, and...

USE MP3 FORMAT FOR MUSIC FILES!

When you rip CDs to convert them to music files on your computer, a setting in your music software determines the format used for those files, and the bit rate at which the music...

MICROSOFT SYNCTOY

Microsoft has released version 1.4 of its wildly useful utility SyncToy, a free program for copying, moving, renaming and deleting files between folders and computers. Here's the...

IE7 ADDED TO AUTOMATIC UPDATES

Yesterday Microsoft added Internet Explorer 7 to the Automatic Updates system, so your computer will begin prompting you soon to install the upgrade. I suggest you install it;...