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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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A new, free service launching in nine metropolitan areas sends travel directions to your cellphone via text message after using voice-recognition technology to determine your current location and where you’d like to go.
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The newest version of RealPlayer offers a distinctly useful feature: the ability to copy any video from the Internet onto your PC, as long as it isn’t protected by a copyright. The download function is smart, simple and fun to use.
Evite has long been the popular choice for electronic invitations. But MyPunchbowl — a younger competitor — has a cleaner interface and plans for improvements, which might make it an appealing alternative.
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.
Video on the Web is all the rage now, but what are the best ways to find clips? Here’s a look at 10 video searching/hosting sites where one can find everything from TV shows to amateur videos.
Doing a search in Google or Yahoo seems as easy as falling off a log, but too often the search results aren’t exactly what you’d like. Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret offer simple tips and tricks for getting more out of a Web search.
Walt pits old reliable MapQuest against Google Local and an enhanced version of Yahoo Maps. Though the newer online mapping services have some fancy features, MapQuest still does the best job.
Software that comes with digital cameras typically isn’t very good, but there are some good photo-organizing programs on the market, which cost little or are even free. Walt tests two of the best — Picasa and iPhoto — on his collection of more than 10,000 digital photos.
Edited by Walt and written by Katie Boehret, this is a guide to gadgets, web services and other consumer technologies.
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