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Deals round up Wednesday, Feb. 3 How many deals will it take to fill the void inside? The Buy Area Staff FacebookTwitterEmail What makes some a good person? Is it unconditional kindness? A willingness to stand up for what's right? Being able to flip an egg without breaking the yolk? Or is it... the ability to take advantage of good deals? It's probably not that last one, but we already have all these deals rounded up, so we may as well make sure.

You probably remember it as Tucows.com, an essential source of shareware downloads for the early Web Share One of the web’s early software download bazaars, Tucows.com, has closed. Originally named “The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software” and launched in 1993, the site came along just as the web erupted into the public imagination and as shareware became a popular tactic for software distribution and marketing. Initially running from a single PC in a library, the site’s thousands of downloads were accessible without n00b-intimidating FTP tools. As web publishing became ea...

Once upon a time, in the early 1980s to be exact, you could pay hundreds of dollars for a PC program, or you could download a shareware program at the shocking high speed of 1200 bits per second (BPS). You'd then try the program, and if you liked it, could buy it for a fraction of the price of a commercial program. Then along came the web, and we could download programs at breathtaking speeds from 28.-33.6 kilobytes per second (Kbps). It was then, as programs grew from kilobites to megabites in size, that some thought a library of freeware and shareware programs on the web would be a great id...

The American Girl Doll of 2021 has just been announced, and she’ll have parents feeling nostalgic for a simpler time in our lives. The 18-inch blond doll dressed for mild outdoor adventures is named Kira Bailey, and she comes with possibly the cutest American Girl Doll accessories we’ve ever seen: baby koalas. Here’s why this toy is making us a little wistful: The cause she champions is Australian wildlife protection and climate change. Those are very serious issues we do not ever want to downplay, but do you remember way back in January 2020 when the Australian wildfires seemed like th...

Posted on Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 23rd, 2020. It’s the day before the day before Christmas, and you would think the new releases and sales would be slowing down. But no, still an awful lot to look at today. If you caught yesterday’s article, you may already know that I was at the hospital today. It wasn’t quite as long as I thought it would be, but it was still long enough that today’s feature is a bit lighter than it may have been. Let’s check it out! News