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A continued waning interest in desktop and laptop products, as well as related technologies, led attendance at last week’s PC Expo in New York to fall for the first time in the show’s 19-year history. About 50,000 people attended the three-day expo, down from 55,000 last year. In contrast, Macworld Expo New York, which is held in the same location, attracted 61,500 attendees last year.

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus has written a review of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 for the Austin American Statesman. The highly successful game has been available for PC and PlayStation for some time, but was only recently released for the Mac. “In the past two weeks my son, my daughter and I all have spent countless hours with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. In the immortal words of that other Tony (the Tiger), ‘It’s grrreeeaaat!'”

MacNET — an online, Macintosh-related magazine published in the mid-90s — has re-launched on the Web as MacNETv2. The monthly magazine will feature opinions, reviews and more.

PrefsOverload is a utility that allows the user to manage all of the preferences files in the system folder. The application has features that include searching for damaged Preference Files and more.

A new preview version of Mozilla has been released that fixes many bugs according to VersionTracker. Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.