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Mapping Your Digital Photo World

The Eye-Fi Explore Card, a wireless memory card with a geotagging feature that geographically prelabels photos, was unreliable in one scenario, but we found it to be a great way to automatically organize and label photos.

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Where Your Old Gadgets Find a Second Life

Digital electronics will eventually break or get replaced. It’s hard to know what to do with the gadgets that get left behind. But there are Web sites that make it easy to get rid of old electronics — and some offer cash for them, too.

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Social-Networking Software Becomes Neighborly

We tested Meebo, Adium and Digsby, free instant-messaging programs that work by being a one-stop shop for online communication. All three are straightforward and work without much effort or instruction.

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Making Photo Collaboration More Inviting

Shutterfly has integrated simple photo sharing into personalized Web sites. Overall, this site-creating program does a nice job with minimal work on the user’s behalf, though it lacks a few useful features.

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A Shopping Trip To the App Store For Your iPhone

The best feature in Apple’s second-generation iPhone 3G is the “App Store,” a distribution mechanism for third-party programs. In general, the process of choosing and downloading apps is easy and quick, and most of the programs are useful or entertaining. Here’s a guide to choosing the apps for your iPhone.

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A Few Shortcuts to Juice Up a BlackBerry

Here are some useful shortcuts that come built into most of the BlackBerrys, even older models, made by RIM but not many owners actually use or know about them.

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Motorola ROKR E8:Hip and User-Friendly

Motorola’s ROKR E8 is a head-turning phone with many built-in advances that give it a smarter interface than basic cellphones. Its standout feature is its keyboard, which dynamically changes to accommodate whatever you’re doing.

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Printer Makes a New Kind of Polaroid Magic

Polaroid’s new PoGo is an inkless printer that churns out photos sent to it via Bluetooth devices. The print quality of photos from a digital camera is sharp, but its awkward size, bad battery life and small prints make it a no-go.

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A Photo-Sharing Site Where Active Participation Is Allowed

The once-frustrating process of sharing digital photos and videos has improved over the past year, thanks to seamless Web-based programs. One such application, shwup, serves as a neat, artistic way to share photos quickly — when it works.

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Flip Video Mino Takes Aim at the Cool Set

The Flip Video Mino changes the way people capture and share videos, and that’s a great thing. And if you really want a sleek, hip-looking gadget, you’ll learn to overlook and adjust to the touch-sensitive buttons that aren’t as functional as they needed to be.

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When You Want Your Own Virtual Trainer

If you’re looking for a fun way to get in shape, the Balance Board will do the trick. Like the Wii, its activities encourage all sorts of people to use it, marking yet another smart move from Nintendo.

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A How-to Guide to How-to Videos

It’s not always easy to learn from the information you find online, and how-to videos can be a big help–especially when they’re well-made and discoverable using sites featuring instructional clips.

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Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint

A free Web site called Mint.com hopes to help users get a better handle on where their money is going, how much is in each account, and what can be done to budget that money more efficiently.

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Digital Cameras That Do Thinking for You

Most people forget their digital cameras have a settings dial that can be adjusted to take pictures in specific circumstances, or don’t know how to use them. Three new digital cameras claim to do the thinking for you, but how are the results?

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An Appointment for Sharing Online Videos

Video-sharing service SeeToo lets users watch videos along with the people with whom they’re sharing it and type comments to each other in real time. But SeeToo sounds too good to be true, and in many tests, it was.

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