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The Kin, an app-less phone born in an app-happy world, will take its place as one of the worst designed products of all time. | | Apple: iPhone 4 Antenna Troubles Tied to Software Apple admits to flaws within iPhone 4 software that incorrectly indicate signal strength. | | Top Techies Share Their Summer Reading Lists Seven IT leaders talk about what they plan to read this summer -- and on which device. (Paper? What's that?) | | Disney Confirms Tapulous Acquisition The makers of the successful Tap Tap music series will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney, working with its Interactive Media Group's mobile division. | | How to Solve the IPhone 4 Antenna Problem iPhone users have come up with creative ways to work around the reception problem on the iPhone 4. 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And with all that work done, we felt fine about relaxing with a physics-based desktop toy and a classic game. | | Planet M.U.L.E. 933 Downloads | Free | Filed Under Adventure/Strategy | | Replay one of the classic games of the 8-bit era, and show your skill (or lack thereof) to the world. | | | Switch Off 703 Downloads | Free | Filed Under Desktop | | Set a time for your PC to shut itself off, hibernate, log off a user, or run a script with this utility. | | | SoupToys Toybox 2543 Downloads | Free | Filed Under Simulation | | Add time-wasting but fun toys with realistic physics directly to your desktop. | | | See (3) more PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Downloads: May 2010 » | | Browse DownloadsAntivirus & Security • Design & Multimedia • Utilities • Games • Chat, Email, & the Web • | | Sponsored Downloads | | StickyNoteStickyNote is the most popular virtual notes program in the world. With StickyNote 9.0, you can create beautiful 3D notes on your desktop and send them instantly over the Internet or a LAN. StickyNote also enables you to adhere notes to documents or windows and to attach documents to your note. StickyNote eliminates the clutter and confusion of keeping up with the reminders and phone numbers that never seem to be where you left them. Forget jotting down messages and let StickyNote deliver them for you. You can even customize a note's texture, color and priority with a few simple clicks, and you can set an alarm to have notes appear at a certain time or at regular intervals. Managing important information has never been easier! | | Net Librarian 8.0Net Librarian is an Internet Search utility which functions like a search engine, but brings back lists of Web sites which match keywords you put in. This saves you the time of waiting to browse each one of these Web sites to see if your keywords are there. (Search engines don't ensure that your keywords are actually on the page.) You can view these at your leisure, and copy and paste topics for your research report or student paper. |  | |
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