Think Vista is overpriced? Well, maybe you’ll like the new prices better. Vista Ultimate has dropped from $299 to $219. Home Premium went from $159 to $129. Windows marketing VP Brad Brooks said they’d make more money by dropping prices rather than keeping them higher and selling less. Maybe there won’t be as much reason to pirate anymore… or not

“While the main culprit behind the poor performance of the 'shrinkwrapped box' Vista (sales) is most likely the more stringent hardware requirements of the new version of the operating system, the lower sales volumes could…

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The upshot: this assessment by the Nikkei team may contain some valid points, but the premise of the article seems bogus.

That's not to say the article is all gratuitous criticism. An engineer speculates that there wasn't enough feedback from the factory (or factories) that made the Air. And, along these lines, another engineer said the design…

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Make the most out of your music files - A carefully chosen list of free Apps that do the right jobs.

It’s very lightweight, can load WinAMP DSP plugins, supports shoutcast, and has plugins for just about everything under the sun (MP3, FLAC, OGG, dozens of obscure tracker formats, can even play audio formats from game rips like the…

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For many Windows users, Apple’s iTunes is a mixed bag. It offers many of the music and video jukebox services we all want, but it’s often sluggish and the polar opposite of customizable. A new freeware plug-in called iTunes Control gives us all a chance to remedy at least part of that situation.

Compatible with versions of iTunes as old as 4.6, iTunes Control’s two most useful features are definitely the aforementioned hot keys and the On-Screen Display pop-up. The OSD can be customized to an amazing extent. Users can choose…

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