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Vicomsoft has released version 7 of Internet Gateway and SurfDoubler. Internet Gateway is a security and connection management tool targeted towards a business network. It uses your Internet connection to connect all networked computers to the Internet. SurfDoubler is aimed at the home network, allowing the safe connection of up to 3 computers to the Internet using just one account.

In his latest column, Walter Mossberg discusses the noise — or in this case, lack thereof — of PCs. “Apple’s iMac and G4 Cube were specifically designed without a fan and are much quieter than any Windows machine I’ve used,” says Mossberg in the article. “…I’d strongly suggest you buy one of these Macs, even though you might have to replace some of your peripheral hardware.”

Iomega is expecting to start shipping its new line of disk drives on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new drives — dubbed “Peerless” — have cartridges that store 10 GB or 20 GB of data and offer transfer rates of up to 15 MB/sec.

We have received a number of emails from MacMinute readers confirming their arrival of Power Mac G4s with build-to-order nVIDIA’s GeForce3 video graphics cards. Two readers received their BTO models Wednesday and immediately sang the praises of its ultra fast video rendering speed. “I ran the un-optimized demo of Quake 3 in hi-res mode while copying files from a CD to the hard drive,” said one reader. “I got a refresh rate of 91 frames per second! This card is everything they said it would be.” A number of dealers in the U.S.

Purple Shark Software has announced the release of Setting Sun 1.6.1, a modular saver application featuring many 3D plug-ins. The latest version — version 1.6.1 — includes forty different fader plug-ins, including the Windows “Pipes” fader, and the floating icon and slide show modules from Mac OS X. In addition, this latest release includes several bug fixes noted in previous versions.