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We may be a country obsessed with fixing our homes and tricking out our cars, but we usually throw away our PCs when they start to give us trouble. These days, however, the recession and the tight credit situation are combining to make it more attractive to fix up an old computer, because a three- or four-year-old PC can be rejuvenated fairly easily.

New Magic Australia, Australia's leading niche video and multimedia products distributor announced today the availability of the Hauppauge Nova-TD USB2 dual TV Tuner product for the mainstream retail channel. The Hauppauge Nova-TD USB2 is a compact external device which allows viewing of high quality free-to-air content for all Windows Media Centre Edition (MCE) consumers and/or non MCE XP/Vista consumers via the new Hauppauge WinTV7 software.

If only it were as easy to build a Web application as it is to design one in Illustrator and Photoshop. Maybe it will be someday, and maybe that someday is closer than we might think. Adobe has certainly succeeded in shrinking the distance between design and development with its latest batch of RIA tools: Adobe Flex 4 SDK, Adobe Flash Builder 4 (the Flex Builder IDE renamed), and Adobe Flash Catalyst, all recently made available in public beta.

Supported by ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Theatre, VIA Vinyl VT1818S and VT1828S HD audio codecs offer true 24-bit/192 kHz high-definition audio playback of Blu-ray Disc content

Along with a storage boost, a digital compass, purportedly faster connection speeds, and the iPhone 3.0 operating system, the just-announced Apple iPhone 3GS will add a slew of new imaging and video features that should have pocket-camcorder manufacturers feeling nervous.

Its sleek chassis, excellent keyboard and bright, 10in screen, as well as features not seen on other netbooks (a Sleep-and-Charge USB 2.0 port and 3D hard drive protection), make Toshiba's NB200 (PLL25A-00D002) the nicest 10.1in netbook on the market. Of this we are sure.

Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig has met with federal government officials to discuss ways public content licensing can be adopted by agencies to expand copyright freedom and improve democracy.

VIA Vinyl VT1818S and VT1828S HD audio codecs transform the PC experience, bringing unparalleled quality to 24-bit/192 kHz high-definition audio playback and recording

The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday.

Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Mobile Marketplace (or is it Windows Marketplace for Mobile? Microsoft uses both names) is the company's answer to Apple's App Store.