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The Swiss Army Knife of Portable Videos

RealPlayer SP grabs videos from the Web and converts and transfers them to over a dozen portable devices. While other software programs perform two or just one of these tasks, RealPlayer’s trio of talent make it like a digital Swiss army knife.

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Creating ‘Moments’ of Your Life

ThisMoment — a free software program that artistically assembles digital content — will give your moments a polished look that makes you proud to share, writes Katherine Boehret.

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Easy Way to Log In Face Time

Logitech Vid aims to help non-techies who simply want to use their Webcams to see someone while they’re talking, without any fancy features.

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Web Surfing in a Wireless Network of Your Very Own

Verizon Wireless’s MiFi allows you to create a private Wi-Fi network anywhere and can be used by multiple devices at once, but the luxury of MiFi doesn’t come cheap.

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Microsoft Effort to Best Google Yields Results

Microsoft’s Bing search engine retrieves on-target and useful information in a user-friendly manner that looks and feels more inviting than Google.

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Organizing Your Online Shopping

Snipi organizes online-shopping results by gathering, or “snipping,” product information from Web pages and saving the information to lists.

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A Kick Start to the Sidekick’s Social Side

The new Sidekick LX has a camera, 3G-connection and social-networking apps, but the absence of a touch screen is glaring for this expensive device.

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IPod to Reach Out and Touch Someone

New phone applications have been added to Apple’s iPod Touch, but the features come with a few drawbacks.

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Nintendo Freshens a Game Player

The Nintendo DSi’s two cameras, snappy Web browser and music-player capabilities make it a likable and well-rounded device.

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Mining Email for Contacts

Gwabbit is a tool that automatically hunts through Outlook emails as you receive them, finding contact information that can be “gwabbed” and saved.

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A Desktop That Begs to Be Organized

BumpTop, a program that displays items in a way that makes programs and files easy to see and open, turns your digital desktop into a three-dimensional environment.

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Cool Trays Take the Heat Off Your Lap

Many laptops tend to run hot, making them uncomfortable and sometimes painful to use on your lap. Now, companies are selling trays and pads designed to cool hot laptops and, in turn, cool laps.

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Yahoo Widgets Lend Brains to Boob Tube

Samsung’s new LED TV 7000 is integrated with the Yahoo Widget Engine, allowing people to watch TV and access the Web on the same big screen at the same time.

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A Tiny Touch Screen for Less

Katie tests Asus’s Eee Top, the company’s first entry into the all-in-one PC computer category. At $600, or half the cost of the least expensive iMac or HP TouchSmart, the Eee Top brings the fun and accessibility of a touch-screen computer to people who might not otherwise afford it.

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App Aims to Up Social Status of Some Basic Cellphones

Katie reviews iSkoot’s Notifier, an application designed to give basic cellphones smart-phone-like capabilities.

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Katherine A. (Katie) Boehret is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where she has worked since 2002 in the office of columnist Walt Mossberg. She writes the weekly Mossberg Solution column, a review of consumer technology which appears every Wednesday.

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