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Only One Beyoncé: Services Pick Up After Your Music

by Geoffrey Fowler

TuneUp Media and MusicBrainz Picard aim to clean up and properly label personal digital-music collections.

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New Mac Laptops Use Batteries Sealed for Power

More electronic products are being designed with their rechargeable batteries sealed inside. Walt Mossberg tests two new Apple laptops with higher-capacity, sealed-in batteries.

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New iPhone Is Better Model–Or Just Get OS 3.0

Apple’s new iPhone 3G S and OS 3.0 offer plenty of new features. But the software may be enough of a boost to keep many users from buying the new model, Walt Mossberg writes.

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Palm’s New Pre Takes On iPhone

Palm’s Pre is smart, sophisticated and will appeal to those who want a keyboard. It could give the iPhone and Blackberry strong competition — if it fixes its app store and can attract third-party developers.

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Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues

The companies behind Linux netbooks have made great strides in improving user interfaces, but until they can achieve similar breakthroughs in how the machines work with other devices, Windows netbooks are still a better deal.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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