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PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005
PC World apparently doesn't consider the months of October, November, and December to be part of the year, or at least a part of the year when good products are released, as they've already published their 100 Best Products of 2005 list. Not quite half of them are software or web sites. In the top two slots are Firefox and Gmail, two very well-deserved rankings. With mounting competition, however, it will be interesting to see how they fare on next year's list. OS X and Skype pop up at #3 and #8, respectively. Opera gets a mention at #88, but Maxthon is way up at #12. Google and A9 are the only search engines listed, coming in at #16 and #70, and Google Desktop Search takes #76. iTunes (at #34) and Windows Media Player 10 (at #47) are the only media players honored, though the iTunes Music Store gets a mention as well. Adobe is at #32 with Photoshop CS2 and #62 with Indesign CS2. The open source community is further represented by Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Tor. Web sites on the list include The New York Times, Flickr, Wikipedia, and the Internet Archive and there are no fewer than four IM clients, including fan-favorite Trillian at #61. Finally, the only game listed is Half-Life 2, coming in at #38.What did the fine folks PC World left out? What shouldn't they have left in? Is Firefox really better than Opera? Is Maxthon? Should more open-source software have made the list? Tell us what you think.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Jay said 4:59PM on 10-03-2005
Microsoft Antispware is worth a mention!!!
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NA said 8:13PM on 10-03-2005
I would have added http://www.logmein.com. Its like GoToMyPC, but free.
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