PARDON US WHILE BOB GOES OFF ON A RANT

Is it a really cool under-$200 computer or techno-junk? Bob and Joy beg to differ.

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THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

One of the many frustrating things we all do on the computer is try to find that article or picture or text clip that we saved a while ago but we can’t remember just where we saved it. That’s why computers have a search function. But a better one that we first found about 25 years ago is “Copernic,” from copernic.com.

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SAVE THE PLANET, STAY HOME

The folks at Skype, the company that provides free Internet phone calling all over the world, calculate that if businesses cut out 20 percent of their travel, they would reduce air pollution by 22 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.

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FREE GAMES PEOPLE CAN PLAY

“Titan Online,” is a free game still in beta testing in North America, but fully available in Asia. It is a beautifully animated combination of martial arts and robots, based on the Korean best-selling novel “Mo Siang.”

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THE NUMBERS REPORT: FACEBOOK

The people at Facebook tell us they added their 200 millionth user on April 8th this year.
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THE VUDU THAT YOU DO SO WELL

Vudu is a set-top box for downloading movies and watching the Internet on your TV.
New to Vudu is the ability to stream music from the web site Pandora.com.

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NOT REALLY EASTER EGGS

You can hunt for these Easter Eggs any time you want. Because they have nothing to with Easter and they’re not eggs, they’re programmers’ jokes.

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THE CONFICKER WORM TURNS

Go to eeye.com for a free scan to see if your Windows computer is infected.

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FEELING CHERPLE

Cherple is a free download for Windows and Mac that lets you send text messages from your computer to any cell phone.

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DOC IN A BOX

New doc in a box for the iPhone.

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