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Get a quad-core DIY desktop PC kit for $199.99

Want to learn how a PC works? Build one yourself. It's not only educational, but it's also a great way to save money on a new system.

For example, Circuit City has a Biostar N68S+ quad-core bare-bones PC kit for $199.99, plus around $12 for shipping. You get (nearly) everything you need to assemble a complete desktop for considerably less than if you bought a prebuilt system off the shelf.

Let's start with what you get, then talk about what you don't. The kit comes with a 400-watt tower case, a Biostar N68S+ motherboard, an … Read more

Pro-level text editing

BBEdit is a popular, powerful HTML and text editor with a high-performance array of tools for editing, sorting, searching, transforming, and otherwise manipulating text. Anyone with modest text-editing needs should check out BBEdit's free sister app, TextWrangler, but BBEdit is still an excellent choice for software developers (especially Web developers), with potent hand-coding features across more than 20 programming languages.

On top of basics like code folding and syntax coloring, BBEdit has flexible, multilanguage code completion, nonmodal search and replace across multiple files (so you can keep multiple document and search windows open), a smart Scratchpad that automaintains its … Read more