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Trillian rocks! You MUST download this program if you have more than one IM account, or you hate the official IM client of whatever service you use. Trillian lets you chat with AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN accounts, plus it even includes an IRC client for the die-hard geeks that you may know. I had been using Jabber for my IMing needs, but Trillian blows it out of the water. It's a must have for any power user.
Finally a study that says videogames are good for you. They sampled some gamers at some gaming competitions, and found that they were actually pretty normal people, and "they also tended to be more intelligent." They also said videogames improved coordination and that we have a lot in common with top atheletes. I knew playing Super Mario Brothers when I was a kid would come in handy someday :)
Sun did an interesting study on Gnome's functionality for a novice Linux user. It had 12 participates with no previous Gnome experience try to do some basic tasks like edit a document, surf the web, or change the background picture. Many of the complaints that the testers had are the same issues that bothered me when I first tried Linux, but eventually you get used to the Linux way of doing things, and then you wonder how you ever did it in the inferior Windows way in the first place. But I must say that many of the problems that were pointed out should be fixed. Anyways, it's an interesting read into User Interface design.
The laundry rooms in college are HOT!
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