When SanDisk came out with a 1 gigabyte capacity flash drive a few years ago it had a list price of nearly a thousand dollars. The drives were sometimes called thumb drives then and were quite the little wonders. Now you can buy a 1 gigabyte flash drive for $10.
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There’s a new version of PowerPoint available, the first in four years. You can get it on its own for $200 or as part of the new Office 2007 that sells for $300 to $400 from discounters. Either way, you must have the new Vista operating system to use it.
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The following address for viewing the world’s worst PowerPoint presentation comes from a Web site that can shorten any address you give it: http://tinyurl.com/362ckt.
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Synthravels.com is a tour operator that offers free guided tours through the more famous virtual worlds. That’s right, you don’t really have to go anywhere; you’re already there.
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LogMeIn looks like it should be a dish in a Chinese restaurant, but it’s actually a service for controlling your home or office computer from afar.
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StumbleUpon.com has long been a great site to start a trip through the weird and wonderful world of Web sites.
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If you need a programming job done, like creating a specialized database, you can do a search on “freelance coders” at Google.com or Yahoo.com. Programmers from all over the world will provide background information on their experience and abilities and quote rates that start as low as 50 cents an hour. (Now that’s a global economy!)
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For $20 a year you can have access to more than 140 free downloads from a program library maintained by PC Magazine at tinyurl.com/dhdzv (scroll to the bottom of the page to subscribe to the Utility Library).
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“Photoshop Type Effects Gone Wild,” book and disk, by Al Ward; $35 from Wiley.com. People love fooling around with typefaces, ourselves included.
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We have seen several marketing surveys that find more than 70 percent of those polled are concerned about personal security and interested in surveillance products. In short, they’re looking at you, kid, or they’d like to be.
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