iLife Gets Better; Just Don’t Ask It to Find a Face
Walt reviews the new features of iPhoto, GarageBand and iMovie in Apple’s iLife ’09.
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Synchronizing Your Bookmarks on All Your PCs
Walt reviews Foxmarks, a tool for synchronizing your bookmarks automatically among all your computers, Windows or Mac, and across all the main brands of Web browsers.
Sony’s Vaio P Has Sportscar Looks Without the Power
Walt gives high marks to the new Sony Vaio P for its stylish looks, but finds it to be underpowered and frustrating to use.
Unigo.com Gives Everyone a Say About College Picks
Walt takes a close look at a a new, free Web guide to colleges–and mostly likes what he sees. The information isn’t just words and numbers, but includes lots of photos, videos and student input for most schools.
Amazon’s Kindle 2 Improves the Good, Leaves Out the Bad
Walt finds that Amazon.com has fixed the worst design flaws in the Kindle, its popular electronic-book reader, while maintaining the excellent book-buying experience that made the first model tolerable despite those problems.
New Safari Browser Succeeds at Speed, Flops on Features
Walt reviews the latest version of Apple’s Safari browser, which hopes to overtake rival browsers Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The Littlest iPod Packs In Songs and Finds Its Voice
Walt reviews the first talking music player in the impossibly small iPod Shuffle. Push a button and it will tell you, in a computerized voice, the title and artist of whatever song you’re hearing. Keep holding that button and it will recite a roll call of all your playlists, allowing you to select among them. In Walt’s tests, this worked as advertised.
Microsoft Ups Ante With New Browser
Internet Explorer 8 is more stable than its predecessor and packed with valuable new features, but it still can’t match its browser rivals in speed and performance.
Some Favorite Apps That Make iPhone Worth the Price
Walt presents minireviews of iPhone apps, or small software programs that connect to the Internet, that make the gadget worth the price.
Network Hard Disk by Western Digital Offers Easy Backup
Western Digital’s My Book World Edition is a new networkable hard disk that is simple and effective for anyone with a modern operating system.
True/Slant Tests Another Model Of Web Journalism
True/Slant takes a novel approach to Web journalism with new forms of advertising and an effort to blend journalism and social networking.
Latest MobileMe Takes Out Glitches and Eases Syncing
Apple’s latest version of MobileMe, a service that synchronizes email, contacts and calendars among Mac and Windows computers, is faster and more reliable.
Computer Buyers Have to Consider System Upgrades
This year, with Microsoft and Apple set to upgrade operating systems, Walt Mossberg’s spring computer buyer’s guide focuses on buying a machine for the new OS you may soon want.
Dell Aims for Style With New Laptop and Family Model
Dell’s new Adamo laptop and Studio One 19 desktop are attractive and functional, but neither is ground-breaking, says Walt Mossberg.
Quickoffice Brings Editing to iPhones, But Put It on Hold
The iPhone Quickoffice app allows users to create and edit Word and Excel documents, but getting files into the app is a pain.
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