If you want to experience viewing pages and galleries full of images on the Internet (including my own Photo & Art Albums) in a completely cool "Infinite Interactive 3D Wall" like something from Minority Report - then you have GOT to download CoolIris - a free whiz-bang browser plug-in that will WOW you and everyone you show it to!

I've found a new SIN, and of course this one is highly-addictive and will eat up all your time.  Fortunately it's a computer game, which may make it easier on those attempting to perform an intervention...

Sins of a Solar Empire (or just “SINS” to it’s legions of fans) is a title I first saw on the shelves about a year ago and it looked intriguing, but more like one of those highly-involved "Expand and Conquer" games - and I was looking for a "space-shooter", for lack of a better term.  I had liked games like Descent and some of the Star Wars titles where you actually fly the spaceships around in first-person (and preferably of the heavily-armed, hot-rod variety.)  I finally decided to give it a try though, and I was right - it is one of those involved expand-your-empire games ... but it also just happens to be really, really GREAT! 

Most of you know that you should keep your hard drives "defragmented" (and some of you actually do it).  Windows has always included a "defragger" (usually co-opted from other sources), and most people seldom worry about it beyond that - though of course the ones who do use it will often complain about how long it takes...  (If you're in the dark about what "disc fragmentation" is, go read the article here.)

Of course there are hard-core people who defrag their drives obsessively, and they deserve to pay top $$$ for a great program like Diskeeper, but for the rest of us who just want something faster and better than the lightweight defragger Windows offers - here it is : SmartDefrag!

It's FREE FOREVER - or at least that's the claim they make.  (Forever? ... is that a legal definition of time?)  But it would just be a waste of your fragmented disc space if it wasn't faster than the one you've got, and rest assured that it IS!  In fact, I'd say this thing can give Diskeeper a run for it's money ... and unless you need corporate-server-level defragging, then SmartDefrag would win, not least of all because it's free!

It will analyze, defrag, optimize, and "deep-optimize" any drive in record time, and keep it that way with auto-scheduling and other features if you want it too.

Highly recommended! 

Get it here : http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

Do you have friends that use different Instant Messaging programs - so you have to launch different IM apps to talk to them all?  If these folks use ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or IRC - you can bring them all together in one single interface!

Trillian does this trick - and seriously, if you use more than one of the IM's listed above, do yourself a favor and get Trillian.  The basic version (does everything you need it to) is FREE!

Visit the website below to get Trillian or to learn more...

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/