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Gadget Guidance 2008: Leftovers
Beyond the evergreen categories like cameras and computers, you may find a few other types of gadget occupy a spot on your shopping (or wish) list. GPS receivers It helps if you can play with one in a store, so you can see if you like, or at least tolerate,...
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November 26, 2008; 4:00 PM ET |
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Gadget Guidance 2008: (Don't Call Them) MP3 Players
The market for MP3 players -- more accurately called "media players," since most also handle photos and video clips -- is dominated by one company, Apple, that didn't even enter this business until the fall of 2001. Should you do anything about that? Probably not. The iPod deserves most of...
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November 26, 2008; 1:45 PM ET |
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Gadget Guidance 2008: Digital Cameras
The proof that digital cameras have arrived as a mass-market product? You can now ignore the number that was once supposed to drive any such purchase, resolution. Seven million pixels (megapixels) has become the minimum on new models, a figure way more than sufficient to allow for sharp 8-by-10 printouts....
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November 26, 2008; 11:25 AM ET |
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Black Friday Sales Forecasts
I've never seen the point of getting up in the pre-dawn darkness on the day after Thanksgiving just to save a few bucks on my holiday shopping -- my time has value too! But I have been known to go online that afternoon or evening to snag a one-day "Black...
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November 26, 2008; 8:00 AM ET |
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Thanksgiving Tech-Support Recipes
Those of who are a primary source of tech support for our families know what's coming this weekend--not just a prolonged eat/nap/eat sequence, but a request, or outright plea, that you give your folks' computer a tune-up. Debugging deep-seated software ailments is difficult enough under ideal conditions, much less when...
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November 24, 2008; 12:58 PM ET |
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