There are a certain few Windows products that are unsung classics. These are often special-purpose products that do one thing, and do that one thing better than anything else in the world. They’re products that have been around for years and years, often more than a decade, and have been lovingly refined, year after year, release after release, adding a selective feature here, meeting a user request there, until they’re perfect examples of what a software tool can be.

Atlantica Online is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game that Heather Wardell says has "utterly hooked" her. To find out why, you’ll need to read her review.

Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz has done a lot of radio in my years as Computing Unplugged’s editor-in-chief, but we think the recent rash of appearances has been something of a personal record. The thing is, while doing radio is fun, it also requires some degree of skill. And that skill requires practice. The more radio you do, the better you’ll be at it. And the better you are at it, the more often you’ll be asked back by hosts and the more radio you’ll do.

Did you know that the digital TV switchover is one of the signs of the Apocalypse? Oh yeah, it’s right there in the Book of Revelation between all that business with the locusts and the star called Wormwood. If there’s one thing we love at Computing Unplugged, it’s a good mock.

We all know we should do it, but most people never do. Then comes that horrible moment when your hard drive fails, or your laptop is stolen, or the "I won’t need that again" file that you deleted becomes vital, and everyone says the same thing: "I should have been backing up my files."

When it comes to social networking, it’s not what you know, or even who you know, it’s who knows you. And that’s pretty much where the trouble starts.

What you may not know is that those of you on the PC can mod Fallout all on your own, and at no expense. We’ve been tinkering with Fallout 3 on the PC here in the ZATZ Labs (yes, while we should have been doing real work), and we thought it’d be helpful to show you the list of mods we installed for Fallout 3.

Add To Any lets you incorporate a button on any of your Web pages so your visitors can easily share that page with anyone else.

Use Heather’s experience as a guide if you want to make an ebook of your own. Late last year, Heather Wardell decided to make her first novel available for free download from her Web site. She expected to spend an hour or so getting it ready to go, but instead it took weeks and brought up questions she hadn’t considered.

TealOS is a "skin" for existing Palm devices that gives them the look-and-feel of the upcoming Palm Pre device. Fired up by David’s letter and curious about this software she hadn’t heard of, Heather Wardell went looking for TealOS. She expected to take a quick look, think, "Not bad," and move on. Instead, she bought it five minutes after downloading the trial.