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To the suprise of many, starting on 2nd August 2006 at 6pm (PDT), Microsoft will be charging users $1.50 (£0.80) per download of Office2007.
This move apparently came round after the Office beta was alot more popular than expected, and with 3million downloads, that was five hundred percent more than Microsoft thought it would be.
Existing users [...]

Update: Stuffplug has now been released an is available here!
Yes that’s right! A techthisout.net exclusive preview of the newest pre-beta build of StuffPlug3, the very popular (now stand-alone!) add-on for Windows Live Messenger (which from now on will be reffered to as WLM).
It installed easily and quickly, but the installer isn’t the final one that [...]

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Quoted from Plus.Net: 
This major incident occurred as a result of human error during work to resolve timeouts when collecting mails, which we reported via service status last week:
http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1152295291.htm
As of Sunday morning, things had progressed well, and we were on track to solve the issues with mail timeouts, which had started to occur following our move [...]

Due to a family bereavement, I will not be posting for a week or so.

Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get more bizzare, out comes: the first ever online operating system.
I decided to give it a go, first using a guest account, and then signing up to a members account. If you create your own personal account, anything you save whilst logged in, will still be there when [...]

Several manufacturers are showing large capacity hard drives based on Flash memory technology at the Computex trade show in Taipei.
The drives are lighter, less power-hungry and far more durable than traditional hard disk drives based on a rotating magnetic platter.The largest on display were PQI’s 64GB drives, and another company has a 32GB drive.
The PQI [...]

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — A super-cooled computer chip has shattered speed records for silicon-based electronics, but don’t expect your PC to hum along at 500 gigahertz anytime soon.
The chip only ran at the high speed when it was cooled to 451 degrees below zero — just 8 degrees above absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible [...]

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Google Inc. Thursday will launch a long-awaited service called Google Checkout, which some analysts said could help online merchants boost sales and convince them to commit more advertising money to the Web search leader.
Analysts were mixed on whether the product, initially available only in the United States, puts eBay Inc.’s [...]

I was just thinking the other day, how difficult it was trying to play GTA:Vice City on my laptop, and now I have the perfect solution!
The USB Playstation2 controller converter allows you to plug PS2 controllers straight into your PC via the USB port, ready for you to start playing your favourite games without having [...]