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My initial reaction when I saw the new Windows 7 taskbar was “Ugh!” The redesign looks pretty different using those huge icons. I’m starting to at least see the reason for the larger icons and I have to admit this video shows some cool new features that the Win7 taskbar will bring to the table.

In case I forgot about the time change this weekend my Vista laptop decided to remind me this week.  If you didn’t notice, the Vista clock displays a message about the pending time change this Sunday morning.

I don’t remember ever seeing this on past time changes.

Microsoft has proclaimed today to be Global Anti-Piracy Day… so lets all take the day off

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Google phone to cost $179, debut Oct. 22
  The first phone that harnesses Google Inc.’s ambition to make the Internet easy to use on the go was revealed Tuesday, and it looks a lot like an iPhone. T-Mobile USA showed off the G1, a phone that, like Apple Inc.’s iPhone, has a large touch screen. But it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google’s e-mail and mapping programs.
• On the Palin e-mail hacker trail
  Keeping you up to date on the privacy invasion that the privacy absolutists don’t want to talk about, here’s the latest on the Sarah Palin e-mail hacker case – A grand jury in Chattanooga could hear testimony this week into the break-in:
• Verizon Offers Contract-Free Wireless Service
  Have a fear of commitment but want to reap the benefits of the Verizon Network anyway? Take comfort, Verizon announced today that beginning immediately wireless customers can sign up for month-to-month service, without a contract.  The new Month-to-Month agreement will allow consumers to purchase new handsets at full-retail price (or use their own CDMA devices) without the commitment of a one- or two-year contract. Additionally they can terminate their agreement at the end of any month without paying an Early Termination Fee.

You may remember me posting this spoof video of a Dell desktop fitting in an envelope.  Well, now Dell has released a real response to Apple’s Macbook Air commercial with a new laptop that is actually smaller by some comparisons.

Take a look: