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Music-Playing Cellphones Hit a Flat Note

After testing three music-playing cellphones, including the new iTunes-friendly ROKR, Walt isn’t ready to give up his iPod. None lives up to the full potential of what a combined phone and music player could be, he writes.

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Language Learning, the Natural Way

Walt tries out the Rosetta Stone language program, which aims to make learning easier and more effective by scrapping dense explanations in favor of a visual teaching style featuring pictures, audio and text.

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Testing the Flexibility Of Web-Based Calendars

Walt tests two Web-based calendar and organizer programs — AirSet and Trumba OneCalendar — in a quest for more accessibility and flexibility.

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Testing Out a Speedy New Home Photo Printer

Walt tests Hewlett-Packard’s speedy new Photosmart 8250 Photo Printer, a product that the company hopes will change the way you think about printing photos at home.

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PC and Mac, Joined at the Switch

Walt offers a guide to KVM switches, which allow users to operate two computers using a single shared monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer and set of speakers.

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Personal Computers Break Another Price Barrier

You can buy a lot of personal computer, with few, if any, compromises for just $600 today. This week Walt and his assistant tested two desktop PCs that are loaded with goodies.

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A Digital-Music System For Computer-Phobes

This week Walt and his assistant tested RCA’s Rip & Go Digital Music Studio, which attempts to introduce these low-tech consumers to digital music — without ever involving a computer.

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Comparison Shopping

Walt tests two Web sites that enable consumers to search for items that are on sale in physical stores and he says Cairo.com is the clear winner.

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Making Your Own Coffee-Table Book

Online photo-printing services are offering photo books that create bound volumes of digital pictures. Walt and his assistant compare the books produced by the four big services.

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The $99 Laser Printer: Home Options Get Closer to Office Quality

Walt says he found the Dell 1100 to be just as the company said it was: a straightforward, monochrome laser printer.

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Podcasting Is Still Not Quite Ready For the Masses

While Apple has made receiving podcasts as simple as downloading music, it’s still way too complicated for the average user to create a podcast.

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PalmOne Transforms Its New PDA Into a Mobile Warehouse

Walt says palmOne’s LifeDrive is a user-friendly and well-designed gadget good for offloading digital data, but its poor battery life makes the PDA limiting.

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Cutting the Cord From Your iPod

Walt says Logitech’s new wireless headphones for iPods sound good, but are uncomfortable and expensive.

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Taking the Mystery Out of Blog Creation

Walt and his assistant test three free blog-creation services and quickly learn how simple it is to set up a blog, and how addictive they can become.

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Testing the New Disposable Video Camera

Walt Mossberg reviews Pure Digital’s disposable video camera, and warns not to count on great results indoors.

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