MAGIC FINGERS

Lightning-fast flash drive comes with portable programs.

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A REALLY THIN PHONE

Kensington has a new phone card for Windows laptop users. Its not a card that gives you credit for a certain number of minutes on the phone, it’s a phone that’s only slightly larger and thicker than a credit card.

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PAY FOR VIEW

Amazon has started a program for people with free web sites to earn back a little of their costs. By “free” we mean the kind of sites that carry no ads, and hence earn no revenue to offset the costs. A small “click box” can be placed on the site and people who wish to can make contributions of a dollar or more.

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INTERNUTS

Scientific American magazine podcasts and Seinfeld scripts.

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THE PAST IS STILL THERE

TUT helps speed up your computer.

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TECH SUPPORT

Since we’re on this retro trip right now, let’s revisit a tech support service we wrote about several months ago. We liked the test drive so much, we signed up, paying real money for a remote technical support service that charges $1 a minute. That sounds like a lot, but it turns out to be a bargain.

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A COMPACT SCANNER

A new compact scanner

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BETTING ON A WINNER

Have you ever heard a new singer, seen a new actor, read a new book, etc., and said to yourself: “If I were a gambler, I would bet that this is going to be a big winner.” Well, here’s a fun and free way to do that. It’s called MediaPredict.com.

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A SLIMMER POWERPOINT

We reduced a 21 megabyte PowerPoint presentation on travel to Guatemala to 1 megabyte by using a Windows utility called PPTminimizer.

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INTERNUTS

A new travel website for the over-50 set and the world’s healthiest foods.

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