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The New iLife: We Test Upgrade of Apple Suite

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.

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Sending Large Files Down the Tubes

Tubes makes sharing files seem easy, but it needs to make permission levels more understandable, says Walt Mossberg.

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Lost in Translation: How Do You Say That in Geek?

A guide to terms and definitions used in some key technology categories. It will help you speak geek with the best of them, whether at CES or browsing products in your neighborhood electronics store.

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Squeaky Wheels: Tracking Mobile Mice

Several companies now sell wireless mice designed especially for laptop users for whom the laptop touch pad just won’t do.

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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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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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Cull Web Content With Alerts

It can be hard to find just what you want in the 24-hour news cycle that constantly churns content out online.
One way to find the information you want is by setting up computer-generated alerts. These electronic notifications are relatively simple to use and offer a range of helpful services, from a virtual heads-up when your [...]

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Birds of a Feather Twitter Together

If you’ve heard of Twitter but don’t exactly know what it is or how it works, you’re in good company. In the past two months a bunch of my friends, ranging in age from early 20s to late 30s, have asked me about Twitter–or Tweeter, as one person accidentally called it. To clear things up, I’ve put together a basic Twitter guide that explains how to use it, Twitter lingo, privacy options, mobile applications that can be used with the service and problems that it has.

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Helping Your Data Decamp to a Mac

With the holidays fast approaching, plenty of shoppers are heading toward their local Apple stores with plans to buy a new home computer. Amid all this excitement, it’s worth taking time to consider how to transfer content from the old Windows PC to a shiny new Mac.

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A Desktop That Begs to Be Organized

BumpTop, a program that displays items in a way that makes programs and files easy to see and open, turns your digital desktop into a three-dimensional environment.

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