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 Feature: 16 Ways to Spend Your Stimulus Check
Review Roundup: 12 Tech Tools to Clear Your Clutter
Top Ten: Strangest Keyboards
Review: This GPS Really Listens
Column: Staying in Sync
Review: Good-Looking Frame, Good-Looking Images
AppScout: Automatically Back Up Your Files with Comodo BackUp
GoodCleanTech: Why Isn't Recycling Easier?
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Feature: 16 Ways to Spend Your Stimulus Check
Good news: thanks to a software upgrade at the Treasury, Economic Stimulus payments are rolling out days ahead of schedule! So unless you already have your newfound wealth earmarked for something else, we'd like to offer a few suggestions--some practical, some downright extravagant--from our Product Guides. Check out our top-rated recommendations here.
Review Roundup: 12 Tech Tools to Clear Your Clutter
Dragging yougging your feet with your spring cleaning? Maybe what you need to get going is a new techie tool (or two) to boost your productivity. Clear the clutter and organize your digital life with these 12 capable devices and easy-to-use apps. Looks like you may bexcuses. Get started on PCMag.com.
Top Ten: Strangest Keyboards
Now that backlit keyboards, wireless capability, and ergonomics have become commonplace among keyboards, the door's wide open for things to get really, um, strange. Our Top Ten slideshow highlights some of the most oddball boards around, including one with its own optical drive and another draped in gold. Check 'em all out.
Review: This GPS Really Listens
Not only does the Garmin nüvi 880 pack all the advanced features found in luxury navigation devices, it's the first portable GPS with full speech recognition capabilities--that's right, you can activate any function on the GPS with your voice. Head over to PCMag.com for the full review and more details on its performance.
Column: Staying in Sync
Got a lot of balls in the air? Juggling calendars, contacts, and all our day-to-day business can often seem like a tall order--especially when you've got to coordinate information from more than one source. New technologies, such as Phoenix's HyperSpace, Microsoft's Live Mesh, and more, will help users synchronize their entire digital lives. Learn more in Tim Bajarin's column.
Review: Good-Looking Frame, Good-Looking Images
There's no reason for a digital photo frame to be anything other than simple, sleek, and attractive to look at. In terms of image quality, ease of use, and aesthetics, Sony's DPF-V900 9" Digital Photo Frame is one of the best digital picture frames we've seen. See it in action in our full review and hands-on slideshow.
AppScout: Automatically Back Up Your Files with Comodo BackUp
Comodo BackUp makes it easy to automatically back up your documents, folders, and other important data to network drives, removable media, or the Web. Best of all, the Comodo Backup is completely free. Take a peek and learn more on AppScout.
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GoodCleanTech: Why Isn't Recycling Easier?
You've probably got a couple of pieces of bricked tech sitting around your house--an old cell phone, a dust-collecting printer, what have you. And you're not just tossing that old tech in the trash, which is good, but you're also not recycling it, which is bad. Problem is, recycling broken or outdated gear isn’t the easiest thing to do. Why not?
PC Magazine Discussions
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Microsoft Results Disappoint
Weak quarterly sales of Windows software and a below-target profit forecast for the current quarter overshadowed a strong outlook for the year ahead from Microsoft Corp, driving its shares down 5 percent last Thursday. To what do you attribute the down-turn?
Dvorak: Vista's Pillars of Failure
While the public's attention seems to be swinging toward Windows 7 (the next iteration of the OS), the fact of the matter is that Vista remains. There’s also a group of fist-shaking Vista-bashers who condemn each and every flaw the OS exhibits. What's your gripe?
Ballmer: Since Customers Don't Want XP, It's Done
Microsoft could rethink plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by June 30 if customers show they want to keep it, but so far they haven’t, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said. Would you like to see XP stick around?
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