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Mnemonic Devices

The wild success of Apple’s iPod music player is based on lots of ingredients, but one of the least obvious of them is about to give a boost to some other portable devices and may just turn these gadgets into competitors to the iPod itself. I’m talking about the little hard-disk drive at the iPod’s [...]

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Making Your Own Coffee-Table Book

Online photo-printing services are offering photo books that create bound volumes of digital pictures. Walt and his assistant compare the books produced by the four big services.

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Searching Your Hard Disk

This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about searching your hard disk, copying your Outlook Express address book and using the cookie-management features of a Web browser.

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Info Appliance Offers Nice Touches, but It’s Costly, Has Limitations

Walt says the Pepper Pad, a new info appliance, mostly did what was promised, but it isn’t quite as easy and intuitive to use as its makers claim. And, at $799, it costs more than some laptops.

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Comparison Shopping

Walt tests two Web sites that enable consumers to search for items that are on sale in physical stores and he says Cairo.com is the clear winner.

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New Microsoft Program Offers Homework Tools But It’s Clumsy to Use

Microsoft Student is designed to help middle-school and high-school students to attack their homework efficiently. Walt says it can provide some aid, but is confusing and clumsy to use, and disappointing in some respects.

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Antispyware for Macs; Blog Search Engines

This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about antispyware programs for Apples, blog search engines and the definition of “HD-ready.”

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A Digital-Music System For Computer-Phobes

This week Walt and his assistant tested RCA’s Rip & Go Digital Music Studio, which attempts to introduce these low-tech consumers to digital music — without ever involving a computer.

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Remembering Your Password

This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about keeping track of passwords, browser hijackers and spam that harvests your address book.

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Apple’s New Mouse Is Not as Mighty As Rival’s Magnifier

Apple finally released an optional, add-on mouse that allows right-clicking and scrolling. But Apple designed the Mighty Mouse so it looks like, and can work like, a one-button mouse, making it harder to use than competing mice.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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