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Man dies after 50 hours of computer games | CNET News.com:A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday.The family guesses that it was a heart failure brought on by not getting enough rest – big surprise. When I first heard about the story, I figured it was heart failure from ingesting too much caffeine….
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Power Mac G4 Cube (G5 Cube Case): Sure, I don’t speak or read any Japanese, but that’s why they included tons of photos! Check it out – it’s pretty slick.

Did Microsoft Wipe Apple Off the Map? – Yahoo! News:WASHINGTON – As software rivals, Microsoft wants to wipe Apple Computer off the map. With Microsoft’s new Web service for satellite photographs, did the world’s largest software company find a way to do exactly that?
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MacDailyNews – Apple and Mac News:16-percent of computer users are unaffected by viruses, malware because they use Apple MacsWednesday, June 15, 2005 – 08:05 PM ESTIn a press release on Friday, June 3, 2005, Wizzard Software explained why they believe the Macintosh market is important as they prepare to release AT&T Natural Voices for Apple’s Mac OS X:According to a statement released earlier this year, Apple Computer reported their 2005 first quarterly revenue and net income as the highest in the history of their company, with 74% revenue growth. Apple shipped 1,046,000 Macintosh units during this quarter, representing a 26% increase in CPU units over the year-ago quarter…. In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs.Also, on Thursday, June 2, 2005, Winn Schwartau, one of the country’s leading experts on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy, summed up his first month’s experiences in his conversion from Windows to Mac:In the WinTel world, could you do this?… Do I really want to spend more time enjoying whatever the hell I do on my ‘puter, or maybe I should continue wasting hours every week on security crap that shouldn’t be a problem in the first place?
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Seagate ST3200822A-RK 200 GB ATA Internal Hard Drive from Amazon.comI’ve been looking for a larger drive that was not too expensive – looks like I found what I’ve been looking for.
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again. Once more, I’m at a clients offices to deal with yet another rampant virus. This particular one seems to have infested the workstsation I’m using and is trying to spread via the users address book – that’s right, another … Continue reading →

MacMod – Your Mac Modding HQ:This is the story of the purple mini.This is the same guy who took his Mini and put it into an ATX case. This one looks much better, and is apparently doing quite well.
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So, here’s the thing: you spend your hard earned money on a new computer – probably a laptop that’s nice – and you also decide to buy a wireless router to go along with it.
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zaptastic: blueprint for a widget of mass destructionWhile I’m all for widgets – the Hula Girl one is especially nice – I have to wonder about the thought process behind making them auto-install. As Stephan.com illustrates, it’s not hard to create one that auto-loads, nor would it be hard to be malicious about it.Guess I picked the right week to delay installing Tiger until….
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So, here’s the thing: you spend your hard earned money on a new computer – probably a laptop that’s nice – and you also decide to buy a wireless router to go along with it.
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