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Making iTunes More Social

Listening to music has always been a social activity: going to concerts with friends, playing favorite tunes on a jukebox in a bar or restaurant, slow-dancing with a special someone to “your” song. But as music has migrated from record players to CD players to the hard drives on our computers, we often find ourselves [...]

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Simplifying the Cellphone Experience

We tested two cellphones and a service designed for those who feel nervous using complicated cellphones. Although we missed some features, we found the phones and service simple and helpful.

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Where to Find a Famous Look

Like.com’s new visual search engine lets you find products similar to those worn by celebrities. It has a clean setup and makes great use of technology, but there are a few problems with it.

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Freeing Google From the Desktop

We put Google’s suite of mobile programs through the ringer to see if we might let it infiltrate our on-the-go lifestyle as easily as Google search has become an everyday part of our computer’s browser.

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Choosing Who Can See What on Your Blog

Walter Mossberg tests a new, free blogging service called Vox that lets users label each individual entry with a different privacy filter.

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Battle of the Boxes: PlayStation 3 vs. Wii

Testing the PlayStation 3 and the Wii, we found the cheaper Wii to be the more exciting, fun and satisfying of the two new game machines.

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Creating Your Own Photo Book Becomes Easier

We tested three services for converting selections from your digital photo collections into a delightfully analog item: a photo book.

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Bringing Your Dylan Records Into a Digital Age

We test two devices that are designed to bring new life to 45s and LPs by allowing those oldies to migrate to CD players, computers and iPods.

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Emailing to a Computer-Free Zone

We test a new service called Presto that turns emails and digital photos into paper documents, automatically, without a computer.

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A New Prescription For Watching iPod Video

We test the Myvu, a device that looks like a pair of futuristic sunglasses and attaches to your iPod to display videos on a built-in screen.

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Making Voice Mail More Like Email

We test Pinger, a free messaging service that tries to make voice mail a little more like email, or like a cellphone text message.

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Using Your DVR From Afar

The whole point of using a digital video recorder is convenience. Rather than arranging your schedule around television shows, you watch what you want when it’s best for you. But you may be running out the door for a weeklong trip, forgetting to plot out which shows will air while you’re gone. Or you might [...]

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Sorting Out Digital Photos

It’s easy to get carried away with taking digital photographs. Thanks to memory cards with lower prices and higher capacities, people have their cameras at the ready for every vacation, family get-together, birthday, night out, night in, snowfall, fallen leaf, school play, play date, new dress, full moon and half moon. It’s no wonder computers [...]

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A New Push to Put a PC in the Kitchen

In most homes, the kitchen is the center of family organization, the place where people mark calendars with choir practices, office parties and first dates, and post notes and family photos on cork boards and refrigerator doors.
For many years, the computer industry has tried to build a “kitchen computer” or “kitchen software” for regular computers, [...]

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Belting Out Beyonce’s Part on Your iPod

A few weeks ago while riding the subway, I unintentionally discovered the musical talents of a fellow passenger. With iPod in hand, eyes closed and earbuds in place, he bobbed his head while listening to one of my favorite new songs, Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable.” I recognized the song because he was singing the chorus loud enough [...]

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