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Man Pays $17,500 for Video Game

Think $60 video games are too expensive? You won’t hear any argument from us, but you might from JJ Hendricks, a collector who just paid a clinically insane $17,500 for an obscure NES game from 1990. The game in question is an ultra-rare, gold-colored version of Nintendo World Championships, a cartridge specially produced for use [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Released

The Fastest Firefox Yet Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2. As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite [...]

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Addicted to Updating Software

I had never really thought of it before, but I am addicted to updating software. I often find myself going through the software and drivers on my computer looking for new versions to download and install. I know that I’m not alone, for there must be others like me. This is not something that has [...]

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Windows 7 – Part 1

With the release of Windows 7 RC, everyone can finally see what the new OS is going to feel like. I recently installed the new OS to try out and so far I am very impressed. I decided to split the review into several pieces, this way I can add more information into later parts. [...]

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Twitter Retention Rate Is Very Low

Twitter might be the hot thing, but its user retention rate is just 40%, according to new figures. By now, everyone’s heard of Twitter after the plane in the Hudson incident and Oprah trying it out on her show. User figures have soared, but there’s a problem – almost two-thirds of those who try it [...]

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Review – Adobe Lightroom 2

Photographers raved over Adobe Lightroom when it came out. Now Adobe has released version 2 of the product. Anyone who takes photography serious or is striving to make their pictures have a little more of a professional look, needs this program. The feature set is large, but nothing on the scale of what Photoshop offers. [...]

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