Articles filed under Mossberg, Walter
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Adobe site works best for editing photos
Nov 3, 2021 7:22 PM - The biggest name in photo software for many years has been Adobe's Photoshop. But, as more and more photos migrated online, Adobe became concerned that people would associate photo software less with its own locally installed programs than with Web-based products and services.
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Laptops now outsell desktops
Nov 3, 2021 6:17 PM - For years, I have focused my twice-a-year computer buyer's guides on desktop PCs, with less-frequent columns focusing on laptops. Now that the latter are outselling the former, though, I am going to center my main buying guides on laptops. Many of the specs I recommend will also apply to desktops.
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SugarSync works well on multiple machines
Nov 3, 2021 4:17 PM - It's a real problem keeping all the files you need available and up-to-date on multiple computers in multiple locations, whether they are key business documents or just favorite photos or songs. Adding to the problem is the increasingly common use of smart phones as little laptops, and the growing mixed use of Windows machines and Apple Macintoshes, which use different programs.
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Dash's car navigator smart, if others join
Nov 3, 2021 12:20 PM - As smart as in-car navigation devices are, they could be smarter. They could talk to each other via the Internet and share information on how fast traffic is moving on the roads they have just traveled.
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KidZui may work for many families
Nov 3, 2021 11:26 AM - The Internet presents a real dilemma for parents with younger children. On the one hand, it's filled with fun and wholesome sites for kids, and lots of educational material. On the other, it teems with inappropriate content and potentially dangerous means of communicating with strangers.
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Hulu offers good online viewing of shows
Nov 3, 2021 10:26 AM - The major television networks and movie studios, tired of seeing their programming pirated online, have been gradually moving to offer it via legal Web sites and download services.
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Apple offers new wireless hard drive backup
Nov 3, 2021 9:20 AM - With its new Leopard operating system, Apple tried to solve one of the most nagging problems faced by home-computer users: how to regularly back up their computers completely and painlessly.
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T-Mobile takes a shot at home phones
Nov 3, 2021 8:21 AM - The poor landline home phone is getting less and less respect. Increasing numbers of people don't even have traditional landline phone service anymore.
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Lenovo ThinkPad is designed very well
Nov 2, 2021 7:01 PM - size screen and keyboard into a body that's quite thin and light. And it has a solid-state drive with no moving parts instead of a hard disk.
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Update for Vista leaves little changed
Nov 2, 2021 5:07 PM - Microsoft plans next month to roll out the first major update to its Windows Vista operating system, which was introduced in January 2007.
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