YOUR OWN VIDEO STORE

A new Web site called iletYou.com lets you have your own video rental boutique.

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FRONTPAGE MOVES TO THE BACK PAGE

Microsoft has dropped “FrontPage,” its program for creating web sites, and replaced it with “Expression Web.”

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PING ME AGAIN

You can leave a spoken message for one person or a hundred using a free service called Pinger, available from Pinger.com.

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BY THE NUMBERS

Men versus women online: the trends.

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THE ERGONOMICS OF IT ALL

Joy has been working with an eye aid from ExerciseYourEyes.com the past few days.

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BOOKS

We’ve looked at several books on using PowerPoint, and by far the best is this one from Peachpit Press. It’s called “How to Wow With PowerPoint” by Richard Harrington and Scott Rekdal, and it’s $40 from Peachpit.com.

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VIRTUAL TRADING

Marketocracy.com lets you create a portfolio of stocks and trade and track them.

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THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT

All right, we’re hooked. It’s called “Peggle,” $20 for Windows, from PopCap.com. At first we thought it was boring. Then after a while we thought it might have some interest. Now we’re thinking of checking ourselves into gamer rehab. Boy, is this thing addictive.

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STAYING DRY

Watertight cases for your phones and gadgets.

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TO SKYPE OR NOT TO SKYPE

Skype is the free phone call software. All right: It’s sometimes free, sometimes just real cheap. The point is, more people would probably use it if they could also use their regular phone, just like old times.

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