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You Picked 'Em: This Month's Favorite Stories

May 16, 2008

The 15 Best Places to Waste Time on the Web

Naysayers claim that the Internet can be one big waste of time. Here's to proving them right.

Your Favorite Stories This Year
Remember these clunkers? Many of them were so bad they're hard to forget.
From breakthrough hardware to time-honored software, we salute those amazing products that changed technology--and our lives--forever.
These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame.
Obtrusive behavior, irritating habits, constant nagging--crummy products have bugged you for years. Here are the ones you say have bothered you most.
No one is safe from our look at the dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites.
The best things in life aren't just free--they're indispensable.
From machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of.
Here's PC World's official (and entirely idiosyncratic) list of the top tech gadgets of the last half century.
Naysayers claim that the Internet can be one big waste of time. Here's to proving them right.
Read our list of the most humiliating moments on the Internet.
Our editors' top picks include plenty of surprises.
Pac-Man without the pizzazz. An evil-smashing basketball player. You call this entertainment?
From Atari's PONG to the Sony PlayStation 3--we laugh, we cringe, we reminisce.
The Downloads You Love
Great collections of software selected by our editors.
Burn CDs faster, record streaming audio, and convert files in batches.
Free Hard-Disk Utilities: Recover Deleted Files and Lost DataRecover deleted data or delete tenacious files that you can't otherwise eliminate. A must-have set of software.
We recommend four antirootkit programs and an app developed by a Microsoft security staffer.
Four tools for motherboard monitoring plus a RAM booster.
Greatest How-To Articles
We reveal what vendors are keeping mum, such as: You never have to pay full price, extended warranties rarely pay for themselves, and the big sites do have customer service numbers.
Best PC UpgradesThe PC you need for tomorrow's tasks may be the one you own today--after you upgrade its performance in one or more key areas. We show you how.
Revitalize the gear you already own with these tips and thrifty add-ons for your PC, printer, camera, phone, and other devices.
Before you donate or dispose of your PC, wipe it clean of all sensitive data.
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