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3D Mailbox: So bad it's...bad

It's hard to know where to start when trying to describe the new free email client 3D Mailbox. Even after finding ourselves slack-jawed at the website and the video of this software in action, we still wanted to reserve final judgment until we'd actually had a chance to get under the hood and check it out for ourselves. Although we were never able to actually get the software to work, despite trying it on four different PCs, it's probably just as well because what little time we did spend with 3D Mailbox had us reaching for our antacids faster than you can say, "Who thought this up?"

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PC World's 25 tech products of all time

Microsoft BobI dithered quite a bit over posting this link because, well, my employer's dial-up service is on the list, and it ain't near the bottom (and I can't say as I disagree). But what the heck: The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time from PC World is an excellent list of the crappiest of the crappy and the cruftiest of the crufty.  A few gems on the list: Windows ME, Microsoft Bob, Internet Explorer 6, and Comet Cursor. It's not all software, though: Lots of hardware flops make the cut, including one that's near and dear to my heart, IBM's PCjr., the first computer I called my own.

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Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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