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Getting Mobile Novices to Check Email

Are you a member of the “I-check-my-email-constantly-even-when-I-know-no-one-has-emailed-me” club? If so, your mobile email device is never far and you’ve found yourself wondering how other people can leave unread emails sitting in their inboxes all day.

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A New Picasa Puts a Name To All Those Faces

An updated Picasa tries to take some of the work out of identifying people in shared photos by using “facial recognition.”

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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 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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Testing Souped-Up Search Functions

Two sites called SpaceTime and Searchme turn search into a different, much more visually stimulating experience.

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Navigating the Web to Purchase a Car

Katherine Boehret gives a guide to sites that may help you or someone you know browse for a new or used car on the Web.

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Printing Parts of the Web

The H-P Smart Web Printing program is a useful free solution that organizes online research right in your browser, but only works for PC users of Internet Explorer — for now.

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Directions Are a Cellphone Call Away

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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An Easier Way to Make and Share Videos

The Flip Video Ultra handheld camera is easy to use, attractively priced and creates video of surprisingly high quality for its size, but it is unlikely to satisfy serious amateurs. (Video)

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Truveo Video Search Is Well Worth Patience

Truveo.com, a smartly designed search engine that combs through Web video from all sorts of sources, stands apart in looks and functionality.

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Saving a Favorite Web Video

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.

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Invite Sites Help Start a Party

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.

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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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