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January 14, 2002

The wired den   Moxi. Mira. Freestyle. You may not recognize the names now, but their creators hope you will be using them when you sit down in the future to watch TV or a movie, listen to music or surf the Web. Story

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Gadget sampler
LAS VEGAS -- Gadget clutter is getting some attention from the electronics industry that created all the gadgets in the first place.

Tech Talk
Dave Gussow, John Torro and Jules Allen of Tech Times will talk about tech tips and trends Tuesday at a meeting hosted by the Tampa Bay Computer Society. The meeting, which is open to the public, starts at 6:45 p.m. at Clearwater Central Catholic High School, 2750 Haines Bayshore Road. For information, visit www.tampa-bay.net or call (727) 443-4433.

Solutions: Reining in your system resources
Q. My system resources at bootup are about 87 percent free. But after I run certain applications, I often find resources down to 25 percent free or lower, sometimes to zero. I gather from PC World's Pitstop (www.pcpitstop.com) that some applications don't return system resources when they are closed, resulting in so-called resource leakage. Indeed, when I restart my computer, resources go back to 87 percent free. But I don't want to restart my computer all the time. How can I fix this? I have 256 megabytes of random access memory and Windows Me.

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