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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Edited by Walt and written by Katie Boehret, this is a guide to gadgets, web services and other consumer technologies.
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