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The EZQuest Monsoon is an excellent quality, compact, high performance disk drive. It comes preformatted for Mac OS 9 or X, but you can easily reformat it for Windows or Linux.

Something too prevalent in the marketplace today is the complete lack of innovation which seems to plague some companies. On the one hand, you have companies like Apple and Nintendo which truly bring something new to the table; from product packaging to human-electronic interfaces. On the other hand, you have companies like Dell and Sony who just keep pushing out more of the same. Yet, the latter seem more likely to hold big press events and tout their “next big thing.” It seems as if they don’t even know that their products are “me too’s” instead of market leaders.

I’ve been running the Mac Mini for more than 6 months now. Its time to check in for a 6-month review of all the quirks and perks.

Read on for a full account of what its like to use a Mac Mini as your Media PC for 6 months!

I’m planning a trip to visit my friends for a holiday party. They have a computer which always gets infested so badly with spyware that it takes 10 minutes or more to boot up and is virtually unusable. I’ve reloaded Windows on it twice for them so far, but whatever they’re doing that gets it infected, they can’t seem to stop. So, I’m taking a new tactic.

In an unbelievable response to my post yesterday, Microsoft warned this morning that they have an even more serious problem with Microsoft Word. Apparently, simply opening any word document in any Microsoft product capable of opening word documents is enough for you to get a virus.

Their solution: “exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments from both known and unknown sources.”

Microsoft last month released a bug report that its enterprise file replication won’t work correctly during the month of December. At what point do you say “this is just plain stupid?”