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Perhaps more than any other Apple product, the iPod shuffle is the perfect example of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field in action. When...

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I've already written at length about my (generally positive) appraisal of Windows Vista, yet I'm still eagerly looking forward to Windows 7. While I find...

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Why are MP3 players so hard to get right? A few months ago, my year-and-a-half-old and largely babied iPod 5.5G gave up the ghost....

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As an early adopter, I'm a bit used to being burned by my purchases. Formats die, product availability and support are usually low, and the...

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I've been giddily experimenting with high-dynamic-range photography over the past few days. Unfortunately, I don't own any professional photography equipment, and my best camera...

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Earlier this week we contacted Creative with the hope of getting to the bottom of the bizarre frequency response behavior we observed with RightMark...

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In our last couple of sound card reviews, we've noticed some odd behavior from products based on Creative's X-Fi audio processor in RightMark Audio Analyzer's...

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Recently, I built a storage server for my LAN and migrated all of my important documents over to it.  Even more recently, I built myself...

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Always obsessed with finding the right tool for the job, I've long run not one, but two MP3 players. The first—currently an 80GB...

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Okay, Intel didn't actually spoil my entire vacation, but it came awfully close. To understand why, you need to go back a couple of months:...

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While at Newegg's LANFest 2K7 a couple weeks ago, I took note of several contests and promotions targeting gamers and PC geeks.  I don't...

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Ask anyone in the techie community about Windows Vista, and they'll tell you the same thing:...

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I finally made the jump to Windows Vista earlier this month. To be honest, I couldn't wait to get away from Windows XP. As accustomed...

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I spent most of last night conducting a round of extensive listening tests for an upcoming article, and after far too much fiddling, I've come...

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At long last, we have the final version of Windows Vista in house and have begun doing some testing with it. I've been following...

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