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Barth's software, which must be downloaded to a PC's Internet Explorer browser, searches airline, car and hotel websites to find exclusive low fares. (Mac and Netscape versions are in the works.) An Internet plug-in allows bargain hunters to view Sidestep's search results and competitors' side by side...
...younger South Koreans, the major catalyst for the Web craze was the proliferation of "PC rooms," Internet cafes offering high-speed access for as little as a dollar an hour. Three years ago, there was a handful of such cafes; today there are at least 20,000. At any hour of the day or night, people are playing games, sending e-mail, doing homework or looking for online love. Cho Jung Wan is spending up to 10 hours a day playing Lineage, killing a few weeks' time before he starts his military service. "After collecting weapons and stuff online...
...found the best sound on Tuneto (near CD quality rather than FM radio on Sonicnet and AM radio on Mongomusic), because it stores songs on your PC rather than streaming them. But it also seemed to suffer from short (and thus repetitive) playlists. I love Bjork, but there are only so many times I can hear Violently Happy in half an hour...
TRIPLE PLAY Most CD burners have looked about as cool as a pocket protector. That is until Sony unveiled its Digital Relay portable CD burner ($400) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. It works like any other CD burner: hook it up to a PC, and you can back up your hard drive, store digital images or burn MP3s onto a blank CD. When you're ready to roll, it turns into a portable CD player for store-bought CDs or the custom-made ones you burned yourself. You won't have to be embarrassed...
...first free computer game I fell for was solitaire. I remember that period only dimly. Young children (mine?) squalling in the backround, a wife (mine?) sobbing that this had gone on long enough, and me in my boxers, unshaven and attached like a human peripheral to the PC, playing hand after just-one-more-hand-please of that endless game. To this day, the computer-generated sound of a riffling card deck produces in me the kind of facial tics and palpitations that must be sadly familiar to cult deprogrammers, substance-abuse counselors and others in the desperate-cases business...