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Feb. 25th, 2009

Safari 4 Beta Still Slower than Google Chrome

But bling, eye candy, and nice helper features make Safari a good choice. And the performance difference, it should be said, is too small to be noticeable in everyday browsing.

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Feb. 20th, 2009

Skype 4.0 Gets PC Magazine Editor's Choice--Review/Slideshow

"The new version of Skype makes video calls a priority, and the new UI is the most intuitive we've seen."

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Dec. 11th, 2008

Windows Vista SP2 Beta - Full Review

Is Microsoft finally getting Vista right? The recent release of the Service Pack 2 beta is a step in the right direction.

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Dec. 9th, 2008

Firefox Overtakes Chrome as JavaScript Speed Champion

Until yesterday, the browser with the fastest JavaScript performance was Google's pre-beta Chrome--but with the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, that's all changed.

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Dec. 5th, 2008

Opera's New Engine Slower than Chrome and Firefox, Aces Acid

The new engine's standards compliance, as evidenced by its perfect score on Acid3, will be a real feather in the browser's cap. But with the future of the Web potentially shaping up to be all about Web applications, Opera 10's (so far) unimpressive JavaScript performance may hurt its popularity.

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Dec. 3rd, 2008

The Best Free Photo Software

Both web and software applications like Picasa and Picnik let you do amazing things with your digital photos. Here's a roundup of the best.

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Nov. 25th, 2008

Picasa 3 Gets PCMag Editor's Choice

Picasa keeps what's good about the old and adds some killer new capabilities, like retouching and movie editing.

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Nov. 21st, 2008

Does Google's SearchWiki Work? Pretty Much

The new features let users move entries they like up higher in the list of results and those they don't like, lower. They can also delete any entry they never want to see again, or add a new one that didn't appear in the results. Users can also add wiki-like public comments to any result entry.

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Nov. 13th, 2008

Microsoft Updates Windows Live Services with 'Wave 3'

Microsoft revamps its online services and free apps, adding social networking and playing nice with other sites.

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Nov. 11th, 2008

Microsoft toolbar to be added in Java update

Starting today, when Java users around the world are prompted to download an update, the Windows Live toolbar will be offered as a tag-along, according to Microsoft representatives.

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Oct. 14th, 2008

Roxio Creator 2009 Isn't for Everyone--Review

The burning software king has grown into an uwieldy mess of poorly integrated utilities.

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Oct. 13th, 2008

Stickam Takes the Show on the Road

Now you can do your lifecasting from a mobile phone!

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Oct. 7th, 2008

Hands On with Dell's New Remote Access

The new Dell Remote Access (DRA) software-plus-online-service offering from Dell is available to any PC user, regardless of what brand of PC they're using, and lets users remotely control a PC and access files and folders.

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Mozilla Geode Brings Location to Firefox

Mozilla Labs on Tuesday will unveil a Firefox add-in called Geode, which will give the browser location awareness: This means that sites can tailor their content to a user's current whereabouts. A press representative for Mozilla, maker of the world's second-most-popular Web browsing software, Firefox, said that the technology "understands location

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Oct. 6th, 2008

Ask.com Redesign Seeks to Give Answers, Not Links

Ask.com president Scott Garell told PC Magazine on Friday that the site update would not only enhance the relevance of its results, but also offer a trimmed-down user interface and a 30 percent speed improvement.

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Sep. 29th, 2008

Nero Debuts TiVo for PCs, New Nero 9 Suite

On Monday, well-known media-burning software maker Nero AG launched three new products: Nero LiquidTV|TiVo PC, Move it, and the latest Nero 9 media suite.

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Sep. 24th, 2008

Yahoo Messenger 9 Adds Emoticons, Games

New features include a "Pingbox" widget that users can put on their social network pages, the first spam control built into an IM client, and enhanced updates that can receive information from more sources, such as Yahoo! Buzz and the company's 360 social network.

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