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IN THIS ISSUE: * First Looks Roundup: Home Office Suites - Microsoft Works Suite 2005 - WordPerfect Office 12--Home Edition * Editors' Choice: VoodooPC Envy m:790 * Daily Gift Idea: iriver N10 * Product Bulletin: Search Utilities Preview For more stories, log on to http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1329-4-54-252229-129650-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ First Looks Roundup: Sweeter Home Suites New home office suites from Microsoft and Corel have just what you need for living room productivity, with a varied mix of software like mapping applications, financial software, basic photo editors, and even top-notch security solutions. Given the low price and high-end components, our reviewers conclude it's hard to go wrong with these bundles. For more info, read our online review roundup. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1329-4-54-252229-129653-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Editors' Choice: King of Desktop Replacements For gamers who crave the absolute best (which is every gamer, right?), our PC Labs experts suggest the Voodoo Envy m:790 desktop replacement. The nVidia GeForce 6800 Go teams up with Intel's Pentium 4 560 (3.6-GHz) processor inside this 12-pound beast, ripping through our benchmark tests, and the system also includes capacious storage via two 80GB hard drives striped in a RAID Level 0 configuration. Impressed yet? Read our online review to find out more about this stunning portable. (4.5 stars) http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1329-4-54-252229-129656-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Daily Gift Idea: A Sleek, Wearable MP3 Player The 0.8-ounce iRiver N10 lets that special someone accessorize with up to 512MB of her favorite tunes. So don't believe her when she says she wants jewelry--what she really wants is skip-free music playback around her neck. Check out our Daily Gift Idea for more details. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1329-4-54-252229-129659-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Product Bulletin: Newly announced tech offerings Here are just a few of the items you'll find in our current Product Bulletin. Elbows-deep in Search Utilities Today's Product Guide includes details on four new search utilities, offering everything from prizes to file indexing. Blingo.com gives you a chance to win a prize every time you use it for an Internet search. The service plans to offer one to two thousand prizes per month, and the prizes aren't your average white elephants, either. SEO Toolbar Lite not only lists results from nine search sites, it also gives link stats and shows the site's DMOZ category. For searching stored data, try Ultra Recall, which organizes your local files, Web pages, and Internet favorites for rapid searching. META's diskMETA-Pro desktop search lets users conduct quick look-ups by indexing documents of almost every file type and can even index files within ZIP archives. Find out more about these and other utilities in our online Product Guide. 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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://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1329-4-54-252229-129677-0-0-0-1 PC Magazine Guide to Home Networking Ready to plunge into creating your own home network? 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