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Acknowledging what Apple and Mac users have known along — that mixing and matching various components in a PC is less than ideal — graphics chip maker nVIDIA today announced the nForce architecture, “a revolutionary new PC platform design, integrating system, graphics, communications, and audio technologies to deliver unmatched system performance for the mainstream PC market.” nVIDIA bills the nForce as the world’s fastest PC platform architecture, deliverin

Sig Software has updated Drop Drawers, a utility that puts floating pullout, snap-shut drawers on the sides of your screen. Drop Drawers 1.5.5 allows you to add a trashcan to clip drawers and many other minor new features and improvements.

When a computer manufacturer asked people for their most embarrassing computer related experiences, they received 4,200 responses. “Confessions included those of a new employee, who on her first day snapped at IT support for not responding to her calls for help. ‘Well I pressed the F1 button marked “help” ages ago but nobody came,'” she protested.

The newest release of Tex-Edit Plus, 4.1.2, has improved on the features of the application including implementation of the External Editor Protocol. The External Editor Protocol allows Tex-Edit to act as a text editor for an ftp client. Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple’s bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor.

Dantz has updated Retrospect client for OS X. Version 1.0422 allows you to back up Mac OS X client systems from a Mac running Retrospect Desktop or Workgroup Backup 4.3 and Mac OS 8.x or 9.x.