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Wired News today has a feature story on a 21 year-old engineer's pledge to build a low-cost, upgradable Mac called the iBox. Pictures of the Headless Wonder is up on his company's website, where you can pre-order your configuration. It's April 2nd, so it's no April Fool's joke. Check it out before Apple's legal department sees it and seize it. Best of luck, kid.

macHOME has a review of the 3-megapixel brother of the 2-megapixel Nikon Coolpix camera I bought last year for my niece, which I borrowed to take some great shots of my trip back to the states. But if I were to buy another digital camera today, it would be the Coolpix SQ.

MacAddict reviews iData Pro X, a free-form database from Casady & Greene. An alternative is SBook5 Beta 4, a freeware from Simson Garfinkel.

A news story on PayPal, its past successes and challenges ahead.

MacTech notes the release of Hydra--Seven brains are smarter than one--a collaborative text editor using Apple's Rendezvous. Neat.

Of all the arguments over piracy, this one is the most convincing: "Reducing software piracy by just 10 percentage points worldwide would generate 1.5 million jobs and add $400 billion to the world economy." The report has stats and all.

The Fortune Weblog by Peter Lewis talks of his experience in setting up the work-in-progress 802.11g standard at his office, and how he decided to wait for the work-in-progress to be taken out before he buys into the new wireless technology.

More on anti-spam, and how AOL has blocked one billion junk mails from going to users' inbox in a single day.

On the same note, a cheat sheet on "5 killer ways to eradicate junk mail."

An interesting article on how a husband-and-wife team defrauded people of their money under 11 pseudo companies, targeting job seekers who posted their resumes online. The couple faces "21 counts of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and communications fraud. If convicted, they could each be sentenced to 30 years or more in prison."

Thanks to MacSurfer's Headline News for the above links.

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