Needless to say, I kept reading the article after the first line. As always, good stuff by Sassy-Sander.

"Piracy is a topic of much debate and many publishers are dead set against it, but isn't it simply a public outcry for change? And aren't we all pirates in one way, shape or form? And who exactly are the good, the bad and the ugly?"

Google's expanding yet again, this time into the mapping arena. Their mapping service will attempt to differentiate itself from the major competitors out there with such features as the ability to click and drag the map.

"The ongoing search battles between Google and companies like Yahoo and Microsoft have led to new features and enhancements coming out almost weekly. Localization and mapping products have been a particular focus because they're popular with advertisers."

Consider yourself a gamer if you've got a Mobility 9700 in your laptop. Consider yourself a hardcore gamer if you head on over to ARP & see what Adrian's got to say about maxxing out that 9700M. Overclocking a mobile chip? Sure, why not?

"While the core clock speed was close to the maximum rated clock speed, the memory clock was really low at only 216MHz. Naturally, that reduced its performance by limiting the amount of memory bandwidth available to the GPU. The Mobility Radeon 9700 was basically memory-limited in the BenQ Joybook 7000."

Telecommuting would be so sweet. Unfortunately, if something breaks around here, I'm the guy that needs to show up at their office door with a smile on my face.... heh. Anyhow, the Designtechnica crew have posted an article that lays down several plans for setting up an office from home if you should have the opportunity to do so.

"Now, with greater power than ever in laptops and the newer portable workstations, you can be at work while physically sitting at home. Ideally, it is like having extremely long extension cords on your mouse, monitor and hard drive. Whatever you do at home is reflected on your system at work. This article explores several ways you can telecommute from home using several different programs and solution."