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Apple’s new iMac includes a radical-looking keyboard, but the bigger change is the major update to its iLife software suite. Katherine Boehret tests the new programs with a particularly close look at iPhoto and iMovie.
The iPhone is a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer, Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret say. A major drawback: the network it uses. Video
The family-calendaring program Cozi Central is a digital replacement for Post-It notes. The simple, free software allows busy households to coordinate events and to-do lists, which multiple users can edit.
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.
We tested the recently revamped Ancestry.com, which helps you build a family tree and find related digital documents, and found that it has a sensible layout and a rich variety of tools.
A new, free, application called Pando lets you email huge attachments without breaching email size limits, or clogging anyone’s inbox. In our tests, it was simple, fast and effective.
Smilebox offers templates for creating attractive virtual scrapbooks, slideshows, photobooks and postcards. The site’s design and simplicity also helps to make the photo-sharing service fun and easy to use.
Zillow allows users to look up the value of a home, without having to register or communicate with an agent or broker. Even in its test phase, the site is a valuable online asset for homeowners or those shopping for a home.
Last week, Apple’s iMac became the first Macintosh model to be converted to work on Intel processors. So, how did it go? After testing an Intel-based iMac against an iMac G5 the verdict is in: The brain transplant was a success.
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 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.
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