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This article was written on September 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

We’ve got a treat for you if you’re a Windows user and you’ve been lusting over a sweet 3D Desktop. Shock 4Way is a free application that gives you four virtual desktops to work with. I wouldn’t say it is quite as good as the DeskSpace app, but it also doesn’t cost $20 to buy.

The screenshot above shows the 3D virtual desktop application in action, and here are some of the features it has to offer:

• Screen Manager for dragging and dropping applications from one desktop to another
• Blending option to give each of the desktops a transparent appearance
• Rotate the cube horizontally by simply moving your mouse (there is no vertical rotation)
• Assign a background image that appears behind the “cube”
• Customize the hotkeys
• System Tray icon for easy access to all available options

One of the things that I would like to see offered in this program is an easier way to move windows from one desktop to another. Right now you have to use the Screen Manager which is nice, but it would be better if I could drag a window to the edge of the desktop and have it move over.

Feel free to give it a shot though because there is a portable version available that requires no installation. You’ll probably keep it on your computer even if you don’t use it, because who doesn’t like to show this kind of stuff off to friends?

Shock 4Way 3D Virtual Desktop (for Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista)
Source: How-To Geek

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For the longest while, we couldn’t figure out who let the standalone HD DVR die. To this day, we’re still scrambling to find an answer, but thankfully DISH Network has stepped in to revive the niche while the search continues. The outfit’s DTVPal DVR has been circulating for almost a century now (okay, just a year and change, but there’s hardly a difference in the grand scheme of things), and Mr. Dave Zatz has done us the honors of unboxing one and setting it up. The unit actually doubles as a DTV converter box and an HD DVR, and Zatz found setup to be almost too painless. Everything seemed to be humming along just fine at last check, so feel free and have a look at the gallery in the read link below before pulling the trigger.

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

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Color me skeptical, but on the surface, this prediction seems hopelessly optimistic: according to the Consumer Electronics Association, Super Bowl XLIII is expected to drive the purchase of some 2.6 million HDTVs.

Buying an HDTV? Specifically for the Super Bowl? In a horrendous economy? Yeah, that was my reaction, too.

But maybe this is just a case of damn lies and statistics. A figure of 2.6 million HDTVs sounds like quite a bit, but according to the U.S. census, there were 217.8 million U.S. adults aged 18 and over in 2003 (oddly enough, the most recent figures for this particular breakdown I found on the U.S. Census Web site). That works out to just 1.1 percent of Americans buying an HDTV for the big game — probably less, given that the U.S. population has expanded since then.