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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by Mercury ********** Mercury's Application Mapping Workshop Having difficulty anticipating the business impact of infrastructure changes? Learn how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida leveraged the Mercury Application Mapping solution to overcome these and other IT hurdles. Speakers: Judy Repper & Victor Miller with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Date: 9/21/04 Time: 10 AM (PT.) http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102677-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to today's edition of Inside PCMag.com. With many of us taking dozens of digital photos each month and storing them at high-resolutions on our hard drives, two concerns arise. 1) What happens when our drives run out of space, and 2) What happens if our hard drive fails? How often do you off-load your images to a separate drive or optical storage? Or do you play the numbers and hope that your hard drive won't die and feel confident that you'll never have enough images to run out of space. Talk about your image storage prospects in the forums. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102680-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Cover Story: The Broadband Lifestyle * Review: Skype Aims to Bring VOIP Mainstream * Opinion: Sunday School for PC Buyers * Review: Sims 2 Live it Up * Review: A Better System Recovery Tool * Product News: Adobe takes Elements to Level 3 ============================================================ Cover Story: The Broadband Lifestyle Forget the fact that almost half of the online public (in the U.S.) is using broadband. Having access to that "fat pipe" is meaningless if you do little more than browse HTML Web pages and download e-mail. Broadband can transform your PC from a decent productivity tool into a multimedia fun house, capable of delivering moves, high-quality images, games, phone service, gaming, full-length movies, and much more. We have the complete guide too all that's available for broadband customers. It's time to start *really* enjoying the Internet. We'll show you how. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102683-1 Learn About: Streaming Audio: http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102686-1 Music Downloads: http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102689-1 Movies On-Demand http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102692-1 Photo and Video Sharing http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102695-1 Multi-player Gaming http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102698-1 Voice over IP http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102701-1 ============================================================ Review: Skype Aims to Bring VOIP Mainstream It's free, easy to use and available now: the first full version of the Skype Voice over IP service. Is it any good? While the sound quality is not quite what you get from your standard, analog phone, our reviewer says that Skype is still a service worth investigating and, perhaps, giving a test run. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102704-1 ============================================================ Opinion: Sunday School for PC Buyers Your Sunday newspaper arrives each week overflowing with ad inserts offering excellent PC deals. But how good are those offers, really? Executive Editor Lance Ulanoff has taken a close look at ads from Dell, Best Buy and others and offers a detailed examination of "what they say" and "what it means". You may never look at those flyers the same way again. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102707-1 ============================================================ Review: Sims 2 Live it Up Simulation games have long been a staple of the PC environment, but games like SIM City and the SIM's have taken it to art form and introduced omnipotence to a whole new generation of game players. The original Sims was a big hit and, according to our reviewer, Sims 2 does not disappoint, upping the total-control quotient many times--the game characters now even grow old and die. But can so much "reality" in a game be a good thing? Read our full review to decide. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102710-1 ============================================================ Review: A Better System Recovery Tool You can back up your system to tape or a large external drive or even a series of DVD-Rs, but perhaps the best way to manage full system recovery (read "restore") may be a simple piece of software. Norton's Ghost 9.0 updates an already decent backup solution by adopting the features of its closest competitor (Drive Image). Read our full review to learn just how good Ghost really is. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102713-1 ============================================================ Product News: Adobe takes Elements to Level 3 Here's an alert for Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. Version 3 of the popular consumer-level image editing application is on its way. Get all the details in our product announcement report. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102716-1 Plus: A Host of New Printers New devices from Epson, Lexmark and Xerox. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102719-1 ============================================================ The PCMag.com Bookstore PC Magazine's Windows XP Solutions Ever wish they'd consulted you before they designed Windows XP? Sure, it's a great system, but there's this one feature that makes you crazy. Or that annoying problem that keeps occurring. Well, you can rely on Neil Randall and your friends at PC Magazine to correct that oversight. Here's the complete compendium of solutions to the things that bug you, threaten your security, slow you down, or other-wise prevent Windows XP from running like it should. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1106-1-1-371668-102722-1 PC Magazine Guide to Home Networking Ready to plunge into creating your own home network? 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