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20 Things You Didn't Know Your PC Could Do

Teach that old machine new tricks--from the amazingly practical to the practically amazing.

Eric Dahl

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Look at Least as Cool as a Mac

Is the latest crop of Mac ads getting to you? If you're tired of the taunts of your Mac-loving friends, take heart in a few tweaks that can make your PC look almost as slick as one of those overpriced desk lamps.

Want a more Mac-like desktop? Stardock's $50 Object Desktop provides all kinds of enhancements to the plain-vanilla Windows you're used to--and it can deliver a reasonable facsimile of OS X's Aqua interface to your PC with a plug-in called ObjectDock. Add a Macintosh desktop skin from Wincustomize.com to complete your PC's transformation.

If the sleek-looking case is what you really desire, take some inspiration from the "Rotten Apple" case modification that hobbyist Brian Holmes built for HardOCP.com. Holmes took a G4 case, gave it a custom paint job, and built a superfast Athlon system into it. Now that's a switch I can deal with.

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