If you do your taxes for a second year in a row with the same company's program, it will remember your info from the previous year, saving you a great deal of typing as you fill out your W-2s, 1099s and Schedule As. So unless you've grown seriously disenchanted with a tax application, stick with it for this year.

Intuit's TurboTax can save you time in two ways: It can automatically extract tax-relevant information from Intuit's Quicken personal-finance program, and it can download some of your tax forms if employers and financial institutions have made them available through the right data networks.

Downloading: That Other Way to Get a Video Game

GameTap offers two all-you-can-download subscription options, $9.95 a month or $59.95 a year, for access to its library of nearly 1,000 titles. About 50 titles are free to anyone who registers with the site. GameTap also allows people who are not subscribers to download games at prices closer to those of the retail editions.

My download from GameTap of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary, a 1.1-gigabyte Windows game that was available in stores and on GameTap the same day, took about 45 minutes to complete over my cable broadband connection.

Developers licking their fingers over Cocoa Touch iPhone SDK

At a special press event today in Cupertino, Apple revealed details of the official—and long-awaited—iPhone SDK. Building on the foundation of OS X and marrying it with a multitouch specific UI layer, Apple is calling the collection of APIs "Cocoa Touch." Included in the SDK are updates to Interface Builder and Xcode to enable development with the new APIs, as well as an iPhone simulator to test development from your Mac before debugging on the iPhone itself. In addition, debugging and profiling tools work from a Mac-connected iPhone.

The SDK includes everything you'd expect from an Apple environment, including the UNIX-based internals of OS X. In addition, developers will have access to Keychain, Bonjour, SQLite and Core Location as well as a mature, Quicktime-based media layer including video playback, Core Audio, Core Image, Core Animation, PDF rendering, OpenAL, and OpenGL ES.

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There is no doubt that it is a major advantage to be a black conservative in politics, business, talk radio and a number of other professions. White people have come to open themselves up to black success, black intelligence, and black congeniality. Observing America and the world in 2006-07, it would be Pollyannaish to say that racial prejudice was defeated, any more than terrorism or drugs have been defeated. But the world is a vastly different place today, and if one studies the subject hard enough, they might not find any place like the American South in the 37 years that span 1970 to 2007.

Southern sportswriters have there take on the evernt, whether it be Allen Barra, Keith Dunnavant, or the Birmingham Post-Herald's Bill Lumpkin, who in response to recent books and movies depicting the event wrote, "I'm sure the abundance of Alabama fans in the Legion Field crowd of 72,157 left the game that night saying to themselves: We've got to have a Sam Cunningham.

Miscalculations dogged Romney from the start

Among my goals as a minister, businessman and community leader is to make our beloved nation better! As a young African-American man, I can relate to Michelle Obama's statement. As a registered member of the GOP, there is an aweful lot we as a party can learn from this spirit of optimism that is engendering the support of young Americans.

Toys for Tots - Marines shop for disadvantaged youths

Amarillo Marines invade the Wal-Mart SuperCenter, 5730 W. Amarillo Blvd., for a Thursday shopping excursion for the Toys for Tots program. The Marines bought more than 600 gifts for the program. Sgt. Bradley Clark, left, and Sgt. Nicholas Wood fill a basket with toys during the shopping spree.