Faster Forward Archive: Pictures
What do you do with your photos and videos?
This weekend's column will assess two software bundles you're likely to find on a new computer: Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials 2011 (free for Windows Vista and 7) and Apple's iLife '11 (free on new Macs, $49 otherwise as long as you run the 10.6 "Snow Leopard" release of OS X). But I need to focus on their most important capabilities. You can help me out here: What are the things you usually do with your pictures and videos? What would you like to do with them, but can't or don't know how to?
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Rob Pegoraro
| December 16, 2010; 2:15 AM ET |
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Google TV review, part 1: setup and online
The keyboard-equipped remote control for Logitech's Revue--one of the first gadgets to ship with Google's Google TV software--should tell you the most important fact about this wireless-enabled media receiver: This thing is a computer inside. That's both a compliment and a complaint. This $299.99 device can do far more than...
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Rob Pegoraro
| October 22, 2010; 10:05 AM ET |
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Gadgets, Music, Pictures, Policy and politics, TV, The Web, Video
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Apple updates: iLife '11, FaceTime on the Mac, Mac OS X Lion, Mac App Store, new MacBook Air models
In case you'd forgotten that the company once known as Apple Computer, Inc., still makes computers, Apple executives spent an hour and a half today introducing a lineup of new Mac hardware and software. But as you might expect from a firm that may now be best known for its...
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Rob Pegoraro
| October 20, 2010; 3:30 PM ET |
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Computers, Mac, Music, Pictures, Video
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Apple to get a new iLife, MacBook Air and... one other thing
Shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern today, Apple will introduce a new MacBook Air laptop, update its iLife multimedia suite and demonstrate some new features of the next version of Mac OS X. Well, that's what I think. But the people who know for a fact aren't talking about it now;...
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Rob Pegoraro
| October 20, 2010; 8:50 AM ET |
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Mac, Pictures, The business we have chosen, Video
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Battling media boxes: Apple TV vs. Roku
A tiny $99 box can connect your TV to a wealth of Internet-delivered TV shows, movies, pictures, podcasts and music. But which $99 box should you get? In one corner, there's Apple's $99 Apple TV, and in other we have Roku's slightly larger $99.99 XD-S--and its slightly less capable $79.99...
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Rob Pegoraro
| October 7, 2010; 5:45 PM ET |
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Google airs more details about Google TV
Google TV -- the Web giant's software package for finding and watching TV programming over the Internet and through traditional subscription services -- looks less vaporous now. Just in time for introductions of Google TV-enabled hardware from Sony and Logitech, Google announced further details about the platform it launched in...
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Rob Pegoraro
| October 4, 2010; 2:40 PM ET |
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