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Turning Macs on Thievery. Stolen computers are notoriously difficult to recover. But a Houston man cleverly found his sister's stolen iMac using remote control software, friends on the Net, luck and brains.

SUIT – Against Microsoft, Justice Department. A NONPROFIT ANTITRUST organization said it planned to file a lawsuit against Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday.

Get the Teletubbies Windows XPerience. The Windows XP user interface has been described cruelly, and frequently, as the “Teletubbies” UI, but as with much of the rest of WinXP it has a few rough edges which Microsoft will no doubt polish up a tad in some forthcoming service pack. Why wait, though?

New Radio 8 feature. Now you can post to categories without posting to the home page. If you have categories enabled, there's a new checkbox, the first one, called Home Page (it effectively becomes a category). By default it's checked. Now you can easily publish multiple weblogs, going to lots of different locations, from one edit box. Screen shot.

Gateway cuts 2,250 jobs. Computer maker posts profit, says it will close 19 stores, several offices to cut costs.

14174 » January 25 3:48 PM. New Line may add footage to the end of the theatrical release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. “We're going to change the last reel out and do a preview of Two [Towers] at the end of the last reel…”

Laid-off techies invoke old law. In these tough times, unemployed workers are turning to the WARN Act, which requires companies to give employees 60 days notice before mass layoffs.

HTMLize Pictures. Patrik Roos has put a nifty little form together that converts your Pics to HTML. It's awesome! I'd love to share the results, but they take up a whole page…. [meryl's notes]

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