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Microsoft Animates the Scrapbook
Back in those dark days when photographs were confined to a strip of processed chemicals called "film," there wasn't much spare-time photographers could do with pictures. You could order blow-ups of photographs or cut and paste them into scrapbooks, and that was about it.

Internet Providers' New Tool Raises Deep Privacy Concerns
If you're reading this story on our Web site, I don't know what you did online before you reached this page.

Balanced Diets for Lighter Laptops
Cheap, lightweight laptops have quietly gotten better over the past year.

How They Measure Up
1 . HP Pavilion tx2500z, $1,539


The Opaque Side of Apple
If your computer annoys or amazes you, and you yell at it or congratulate it, you'll be met with silence. But if you direct your feedback to the company that made it, will you have any more of a dialogue?

They Know Where You Are
Your computer knows what you did last weekend -- but that's okay because most of your other gadgets do, too. Your browser remembers your Web reading list, your cellphone saved your calls, and your MP3 player can recite the songs you heard.

Meant to Sync, MobileMe Is Scattershot at the Start
If you want to use the same contact list and calendar on every computer you might sit in front of, there's a simple, reliable and cheap way to do so: Carry around a paper organizer.

The iPhone, Rehashed
A year ago, Apple's iPhone made most competing cellphones look like stone tablets with antennas. But the new iPhone 3G, introduced last week, doesn't make quite the same leap forward.


Address Book Programs Need to Network to Get Ahead
A lot of Internet users now find they have two kinds of address books: Ones they've known for years, and ones that are up to date.

It Only Looks Like an iPhone
So many people are lining up to buy a new touch-screen wireless phone that the carrier selling it can't keep up with demand.

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