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SimCity Societies

The addictive gameplay of the SimCity series is completely missing in this lackluster spinoff.

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SWAT 4: PC review

SWAT 4 comes blazing onto your PC armed with possibly the most realistic police-based gameplay of any title. And best of all, there's no Colin Farrell in sight.

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Guild Wars Factions

The follow-up to the innovative Guild Wars features a large new fantasy world to explore and enough competitive and cooperative role-playing action to easily keep you busy for weeks.

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The Matrix: Path of Neo

Gamers can now relive all of the Matrix celluloid action (even the yawn-inducing sequels) as superdude Keanu Reeves in The Matrix: Path of Neo.

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HTC Shift

HTC's Shift is yet another UMPC — and another white elephant to add to the pile.

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What good are 1,000 remote-controlled PCs?

Botnets have been around since the late 1990s but have only recently become worth owning, selling, or trading. What good are 1,000 remote-controlled PCs? Let's find out.

Who wants or needs 64 bits?

Desktops with 64-bit processors have been available for two years, but you could still be the first on your block to get one.

Computer, know thyself

Attention control freaks -- take a look at several "dashboard" products that help you monitor your computer--and much more.

Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?

Price and industry standardisation remain barriers to widespread adoption, but the biggest hard-drive maker could force competitors to keep pace.

Can cryptography prevent printer-ink piracy?

A San Francisco company is developing chips that use encryption to control which ink cartridges and printers work together.

How to remove personal files before you ditch your old PC

Whether you're donating that old PC to a local school or selling it on an online auction site, you'll want to remove your personal files first. Here's a quick lesson in how data is stored and what you can do to keep others from reading your e-mail and seeing your financial data from five years ago.

Switching to an Intel-based iMac

CNET lays out the issues involved in switching to an Intel-based Mac and shows you how to fight some common problems as well as what's the story on software upgrades.

Starting to Shuffle

Hello,
I am thinking about purchasing an iPod Shuffle for $149 and was wondering what accessories come with it and how do I get songs from my Windows computer to the Shuffle?

Thank-you.

Newbie's guide to Twitter

Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into it. So, here's a quick newbie's guide to this new platform. This guide doesn't cover every feature of Twitter, but it should help to get you started.

How to get music onto your Walkman phone

The Sony Ericsson Walkman phones are great, but it's not always obvious how to get music onto them. We take you through the checks you need to make before installing the software, how the software works and give you some troubleshooting tips.

Online image editors for blogging

We head out across the Web to find out whether these online image editors are picture perfect.

Digital photography glossary

Having problems with certain camera jargons? Fret not. We have compiled a list of the common terms and definitions used in digital photography.

PDA Buyer's Guide: What to look for when buying a handheld

The right PDA has to be small enough that you enjoy toting it around, but the battery needs to be big enough that it has some juice left when you need it; plus, it must have a decent-size screen.

Are doodles the key to an effective search?

Researchers in southern California are developing a technology to tag files with arbitrary graphics so that searches can take advantage of the way the brain processes images.

Protect your home office - from your kids

There's nothing worse than setting up your home office, only to have the kids destroy the lot with an errant game install, virus infection or jam covered keyboard.

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WinChime 2.7

Customize, relax, and listen to wind chimes sounds from your computer.

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The Talking Moose XP 5

Display an animated talking character on your desktop.

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Passgen

Generate passwords using your preferred letters and numbers randomly.

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Really Random Numbers

Use the white noise from your PC sound card to generate truly random numbers.

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Morphilter 1.1

Get a stereo VST plugin multimode filter.