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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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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
Despite Others’ Claims, Tracking Cookies Fit My Spyware Definition
If you don’t like the idea of tracking cookies, run an antispyware program that detects and removes them, along with all the other indefensible computer code some companies think they have the right to install.
Sorting Paragraphs Alphabetically in Word
This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about sorting paragraphs alphabetically in Word, whether some viruses are a “necessary evil” and using laptops to organize and edit digital photographs.
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