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Everquest II The Shadow Odyssey

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from: Sony Online Entertainment

November 18, 2008

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Logitech G9 Laser Mouse

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from: Logitech


Pros
- Sensitive
- Custom weights
- Custom LED colors
- Extra grips

Cons
- Middle-mouse clicking (pressing down, not scrolling) is INCREDIBLY stiff. Difficult to open/close browser tabs, or fly-scroll on webpages, etc.
- Mouse is too heavy for precision gaming to begin with. Using the weights would make it worse.
- Labeled as a 9-button mouse, which is ridiculous and highly disappointing. 1: You can't use the 2 buttons on the bottom of the mouse. 2: Wheel-tilting shouldn't be considered 2 extra buttons. 3: The 2 sensitivity-adjustment buttons can't realistically be used for anything else. You can bind them, but actually clicking them requires stopping and trying to find them. In practice, ... Read More:

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Printmaster - Platinum Version 18

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from: Encore Software

October 09, 2007
All my friends and family love the cards I create using Printmaster. It is very user friendly. I love importing family pictures into my cards and Printmaster has a great photo editing feature. It provides a ton of colors, images, borders, etc. There are so many creative options available, that only my imagination holds me back. I have purchased Printmaster for my two daughter-in-laws. I highly recommend this product.

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Rome: Total War Gold Edition

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from: Sega of America, Inc.

February 01, 2006
After playing Shogun: Total War, I moved into Age of Empires. Don't get me wrong that Empires is probably one of the best PC games available to normal humans, but it grew tiring destroying the same things over and over, and before I knew it, I had found myself in a gaming rut.

That's when I stumbled onto Rome: Total War on one of my late-night Amazon expeditions. At the asking price (around $15), how could I say no?! I rushed home from work 2 days later and installed it immediately. What I found was gameplay similar to Shogun, but with new features, armies, and a whole new experience. For those who are "history buffs" such as myself, you will find an appreciation in the developers ability to describe history without sacrificing much ... Read More:

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Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 with GPS

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from: Microsoft Software

September 20, 2008
Why buy a portable GPS. This program on a laptop provides a bigger screen and just as much function as the little hand helds but much easier to see while you are driving if you have room to set up a laptop. All at a fraction of the price.

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

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from: Microsoft Software

January 15, 2008
There are several little things I don't like about Microsoft's way of doing things with Office for Mac, but those things aside, I find Office 2008 for Mac to be an enormously useful and very solid suite of applications. I had some serious problems with Entourage at first, but running the software updates from Microsoft fixed those. Office 2008 for Mac allows me to work seamlessly with my Windows using coworkers running Office 2003 and it lets me use Exchange Server features more efficiently. It's solid, dependable, and feature rich.

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Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1

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from: Microsoft Software

March 19, 2008
Vista is leaps and bounds over XP. From its increased security, faster start-up times and faster intall times.

I have been dealing with it since Beta 1 and have had zero issues. My machine is used for everything from gaming to development to multi-media. Vista performs as well as, or in some cases better than XP.

I generally recommend that people upgrade to Vista.

With any product, there are of course some downfalls. Some of Vista's include:

Increased resources - although this doesn't come as surprise, as every version has demanded more, I think Vista's resources came as a bit of a shock. It generally runs well, even on slightly low end hardware, I do not recommend anything less than 1GB of RAM, preferably ... Read More:

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X-Rite EODIS2 Eye-One Display 2

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from: Xrite


Seemed to work well pm my Dell laptop display. A 2nd monitor (Samsung 225BW) in a dual-monitor setup (under Vista) wasn't that close a match to the primary display. Ended up returning the device since it didn't meet my primary objective (to have matching displays).

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 DVD

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from: Electronic Arts

August 28, 2007
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008 is quite simply one of the best golf games ever. I am really into first-person shooters (Battlefield 2, Rainbow Six), racing games (GTR2, Race 07 WTCC, Need for Speed), and adventure games (Oblivion) and found it easy to become immersed in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008.

The graphics are very detailed and precise. The scenery is gorgeous and everything runs smoothly with full details (on the auto adjustment setting) on a P4 3.0 GHz rig with a Radeon X1950 GT.

The sound quality is top notch. The ambient noises such as duck quacks and bird chirps immerse the player in the golf environment.

The custom character system is similar to the system used in The Godfather where you can adjust the character's facial and ... Read More:

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Learning Company Kid Pix Deluxe 4 (Version 2)

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from: Encore Software

January 17, 2005
The animation does not work on this product. So, my granddaughter has not been able to use it.Kid Pix Deluxe 3