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Free Play

Enjoy thousands of online games without spending a cent

By Scott Steinberg Posted 12.29.2008 at 12:06 pm 1 Comment

Tick, tick, tick... No matter how often you glance up from that quarterly sales forecast, it still seems like an eternity until 5 o'clock. But with today's increasingly sophisticated free online games, it's easy to kill time and torpedo productivity faster than you can say "TPS report." Recent highlights include the addition of 3D graphics, head-to-head cooperative or competitive multiplayer options and even digitized speech--boosting titles' addictiveness and geek cred alike. Just fire up your favorite Web browser and surf to the following five sites for instant mouse-waggling thrills.

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Ask a Geek: Merlin Mann

Q:What is tagging?

By Merlin Mann Posted 06.23.2005 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

A: Tagging is the act of assigning your own keywords to things online-photos, blog entries, bookmarks-so that you can easily categorize, locate, and share them in the future. One of the best examples is del.icio.us, which lets you save Web bookmarks to a page on the site instead of to a file stashed away on your computer. This way, you can access them from anywhere and let other people see what sites you like.

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Ask a Geek: Sree Sreenivasan

Q: Are those Web sites offering free iPods

By Sree Sreenivasan Posted 04.21.2005 at 1:00 pm 0 Comments

A: As my mama once told me, there´s no such thing as a completely free iPod. But in this case, she may have been wrong.Many of the sites in question—FreeiPods.com, FreePSPs.com, FreeDesktopPCs.com, FreeFlatScreens.com-come from one company, Gratis Network, which has earned a reputation as being fairly legit by actually giving away thousands of free items. So what´s the catch?

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