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Bet you thought my tirade was going to end with Part 1 -- WRONG! I have only begun to rant!

Users of Windows XP have been hit with a new, updated version of the classic smitfraud virus, which attaches itself to various programs and files on your PC or netbook. Unfortunately, this one isn't as easy to eradicate as the older versions and has converted many PCs into expensive door stops.

When was the last time someone read to you? Fifty years ago? Thirty years ago? Yesterday?

Well, I've been playing with a neat device that can read you to sleep every night - - - the Plustek BookReader V100.

I've had it!

I'm not going to take it anymore!!!!!!

Here are a few of the things that cause what's left of my hair to rise on the back of my neck:

Alienware produces a super, teched-out gaming computer for $6,200 but doesn't include wi-fi for all of us online gamers. C'mon guys, you've produced a computer we gamers would otherwise drool over. But no wi-fi? That's annoying!

If you have more than one computer on your wireless network and are bedazzled and befuddled as to how to share your printer among them, the new Lexmark X9575 Professional($249) wireless printer may be the answer to your prayers.

It's time for the (yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn) 2008 Bermie Awards. Forget the fanfare and keep the lights on and curtain down, because the pickings are slim, especially when it comes to new software. In fact, if you visit www.jocgeek.com, you'll notice only ONE article on new software products for 2008.

I know you've been waiting all year for this.

Get comfortable. Feet up!

It's time for a list of games you have to rush out and buy before Christmas (or as soon as humanly possible). Our panel of experts has taken a year to sift through the tons of console and PC-based games released this year and, although it's been a tough choice, we've survived the ordeal.

'Tis the season for gadgets! Admittedly, I'm like a kid in a candy store when all of the new tech toys hit the market, especially those that serve a definite purpose.

Move over Logitech and Altec-Lansing, there's a new player vying for the computer multimedia market.

I'm one of those annoying people that cruises around town with my favorite tunes blasting from my car's stereo system. In fact, I demand the same quality in sound reproduction I get from my home system.

You know it's a bad Summer when:

--- Ziff-Davis pulls the plug on its DigitalLife exhibition scheduled for September at the Javitts Center in NYC.

In an official proclaimation, Paul O'Reilly, vice president of DigitalLife said: