With the kids today it's all Bionicles, which look very much like robots but apparently aren't. They are, in fact, "Toa," the mystical guardians of the light who fight Makuta, who also looks like a robot, but isn't. As you might expect, the bad guy shows up and it's the job of the good guys to fight his endless stream of ever-more-powerful henchmen while increasing their own power. If he were thinking about this at all, the villain would send his most powerful henchmen out right away to crush the heroes before they became powerful enough to challenge him. But then I guess that wouldn't be much fun.

I'm assuming there are many like me who just can't get into using Mail. In speaking about it with our illustrious leader, Joe Ryan, we both agreed that we just never feel like we're in control of Mail. It feels more like a program being forced on us and maintained by an IT department than by ourselves. Perhaps this is why, after upgrading my system this year, I tried for about a month to work strictly in Mail, but ended up keeping only my work account there while falling back to PowerMail to handle my many personal accounts.

The VoIP program allows Mac, Linux, and Windows users to talk over the internet, and purchase time to call people on standard phones.

The freeware icon set includes the iPod shuffle and Mac mini.

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Motor racing legend switches to the iBook

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• Apple Still Leads In Visits To Computer Hardware Sites
• America's Premier Guru Of Gadgets Is Doing It Again
• Beyond iPod, Apple Grows Healthy Software Business
• What's in Store for iWork?
• Hitachi Brings IDE to 1.8in HDD Line
• Tech Guru Pitches $100 Laptop
• Dell: Beware the Beige-Box Blahs
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• eWeek:Apple Offers Incremental PowerBook Upgrades
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• Firefox 1.1 Delayed
• Computing's Silent Revolution
• Unloading An Older Apple Powerbook
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• Computing Network Warns Of Massive Climate Change
• ExtremeiPod: iPodderX update adds AAC conversion
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• The Tech Night Owl: Consumer Reports and Rear-Projection TV

• Open Firmware Password Version: 1.0.2
• 3D-Space VFS 1.1 Dock Replacement [OS 10.2 up]
• ABCLaunch 0.4.1 Launches Items By Starting To Type Part Of Their Name [OS X 10.3 up]
• burnItAgainSam 1.4 Adds Or Updates Files On A Already Burned CD-R [OS X 10.3 up]
• TinkerTool 3.3c Adds Functionality & Options To Many OS X Features
• MimMac 1.3 Backup, Bootable Cloning, Data Migration Utility [OS 10.2 up]
• iBackup 3.0.4 Scheduled Backup/Restore Tool [OS X 10.3 up]
• RapidWeaver 3.0.3 Builds Graphical & CSS Based Websites [OS 10.2 up]
• iSwipe 1.7.1Multi-Protocol Search And Download Tool {OS X]
• Popup Dock 2.0.3 - As Many Dock-like Panels As You Like [OS 10.2.8 up]
• WeatherDock 2.0 Weather Information In The Dock [OS X 10.3 up]
• Temperature Monitor 2.4 Displays The Current CPU Temperature [OS 10.2.5 up]
• CocoViewX 0.9 Image Browser With Multi-format Export & Slideshow [OS X 10.3 up]
• Tofu 1.3.1 Text Reader Arranges Text In Columns [OS 10.2 up]
• DoubleCommand Keyboard Remapper
• Calillona 2.0 for Mac OS 10.3 : Surf and Search Amazon's Catalog the Mac way

• Drive Genius 1.0.1 Storage Management: Maintain, Manage & Optimize
• VueScan 8.1.28 Scanner Software For Flatbed & Film Scanners
• MindCad Releases Pyramid 1.4 for OS X
• WebCrossing ships Podcasting Support
• Bandmateloops.com plugs in with Electric Guitar and Electric Piano for GarageBand
• DVDThemePAK.com updates ALL Buttons and Themes for Apple's iDVD 5.0
• Webseecon 2.0 Released For Macintosh

Those who find winning codes will be able to redeem songs beginning today.

Version 1.1 of the free Boinx Mouseposé adds AppleScript support which enables interoperability with a broad range of remote control devices such as bluetooth enabled mobile phones (with Salling Clicker) and Keyboard Macro tools. It even allows you to use Mac OS X speech recognition. Mouseposé highlights the mouse pointer when you press a hotkey by placing a halo effect on the area surrounding it.

Astoundit Software has released a major update to the Macintosh OS X native utility, Webseecon. This new release adds numerous feature enhancements, speed optimizations and increased performance, allowing Macintosh users to easily create customized graphically-rich icons for their Internet shortcuts.