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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sure the drive you buy can connect over a USB 2.0 port for faster transfers; if your PC only has regular old USB, data will move at a slower rate. Remember that when you copy individual files or file folders to the external drive, the originals will remain on your local drive unless you go back and delete them. The point of backing up is to have that extra copy, should some disaster strike your machine. On the other hand, moving your media collection off your local drive will free up space, and possibly improve your PC's overall performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Spring Cleaning For Your PC | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...massively multiplayer? game: you play it online, interacting with thousands of other players at the same time. The look and feel of the game are straight from the movies: eerie, surreal, strangely deserted cityscapes, ideally suited for rooftop chase scenes and wire-fu combat. Red pill sold separately. (For PC; $49.99, plus $14.99 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games: 5 Video Games Worth Sore Thumbs | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

Evoking the image of a full-screen error message familiar to many PC users, she says, “There’s no blue screen of death on the Mac…It doesn’t freeze—nothing, it just works...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Switch to Macs | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...cyberspace. It was a relatively straightforward advertisement offering the services of their husband-and-wife law firm to aliens interested in getting a green card -- proof of permanent-resident status in the U.S. The computer that sent the message was a perfectly ordinary one as well: an IBM-type PC parked in the spare bedroom of their ranch-style house in Scottsdale, Arizona. But on the Internet, even a single computer can wield enormous power, and last April this one, with only a tap on the enter key, stirred up an international controversy that continues to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

Until quite recently it was painfully difficult for ordinary computer users to reach the Internet. Not only did they need a PC, a modem to connect it to the phone line and a passing familiarity with something called Unix, but they could get on only with the cooperation of a university or government research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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