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For standard play de_dust2 hands down is my favorite followed by inferno. Such great maps and easy to learn too. For messing around maps though I loved fy_pool_day. Constant action the whole round and some pretty intense clutch situations were the norm for that map.

In terms of RTS games (real time strategy) the winner would have to be Starcraft. Starcraft is a game that can be easily picked up by almost anyone, but is very difficult to master. Perfect example of this, look at South Korea. Starcraft is nearly their national sport. Look up any finals match of any tournament and you'll find a civic center full of fans rooting on their favorite player. Starcraft has gone farther than any other game in the e-sports capital of the world and for this reason I think it definitely deserves the title of best multiplayer game.FPS games (first person shooters) don't have as clear a winner. If you go by sheer player count, Counter-Strike 1.6 is by far the leader, and for good reason. It is similar to starcraft in that it is an easy game to pickup but very hard to become good at. Skill level differences are magnified in both these games and I personally think that is why they have both been played on such a large scale for so long (10+ years). Any game that can stay active, let alone amass the largest number of active players of ANY game of it's kind, for that long certainly is doing something right.

I think the awesome bar in firefox 3 is worth the upgrade alone! Forget about having to remember strange url's for all your favorite web sites or places of interest, all you have to do is type in what you are looking for (i.e. free web hosting) and it will search your history to give you a list of all the free web hosting sites you have visited before ordered by how often you have visited them. Has saved me many, many times!

Just got my sister's old BlackBerry Pearl 8100 after she upgraded to the new iPhone 3G. It was a little awkward using the keypad at first since I had always been used to a standard cell phone keyboard but after a few days you can just fly on the thing. Applications are numerous and easy to come by, I've found http://www.blackberryforums.com/ to be the best place to look though in terms of software and support. Any other BlackBerry users?