• 20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life

  
  A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done--or having a tech meltdown.

• Six Hacks For Your Mobile Gear

  
  Unlock your iPhone, supercharge your camera, and take your TiVo shows on the road for free. These six hacks unleash the hidden power in your mobile gadgets.
• Web Photo Fixers: The Slide Show!
• Smart Fixes for Your Printing, E-Mail, and Audio Hassles
• Microsoft Warns of IE8 Lock-in With XP SP3
• IE 8 Hits Beta 2, Privacy Features Added
• Open Source: What You Can Learn From the French
• E-Mail Hoaxes, XP Buyers, and Symantec's Buy
• Web-Based Photo Editors
• Who Provides What in the Cloud

Software Reviews

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Photo Editing Software With its attractive new image-editing features and its expansion into online photo sharing, Photoshop Elements 7 is a worthy upgrade.
• Slacker Portable Internet Radio Player Slacker's portable music player and Web service let you take your favorite music with you and discover similar artists, too.
• Apple MobileMe Syncing Service Apple's updated syncing service is a disappointment for PC users.
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 A great update offers several must-have features without cluttering up an already clean interface.
• Microsoft Live Mesh File Sync Service Microsoft has sacrificed usability to provide a pretty interface in this powerful but unnecessarily clumsy file-sync service.

Software News

• Apple Updates Final Cut Express, Releases QuickTime Decoder Apple on Thursday released an update for Final Cut Express, its advanced amateur movie editing application, bringing the...
• Yelp for IPhone You'd be hard pressed to find a more opinionated, verbose, and downright catty group than the citizen reviewers on...
• IE 8 Hits Beta 2, Privacy Features Added Final release aimed at year-end.
• Microsoft Warns of IE8 Lock-in With XP SP3 Microsoft Corp. yesterday warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that they won't be able to uninstall either the...
• Open Source: What You Can Learn From the French With open source embraced at all levels, the real benefits of a passionate community arrive.

Software Playing in PCW Video

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  Golf Simulation: Take Real Golf Swings at Tokyo Bar A new bar in Tokyo lets golfers swing clubs at real balls after work in a software simulation area.
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  Filtering Web Porn: Competition Puts Software to the Test A shootout competition between competing web filtering software packages.
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  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Launch Preview New server OS emphasizes security, virtualization, Web productivity and business intelligence changes.

Software Slideshows

• Web Photo Fixers: The Slide Show! They may not equal their desktop siblings, but today's Web-based image editors may surprise you. Here, we take a close look at six of these free services.
• Must See! Microsoft's Photosynth Makes Photos a 3D Experience Newly live Web site provides users with 20GB of free storage, making it easy to create and share amazing 3D walkthroughs of your favorite places.
• 20 Years of Madden When John Madden Football debuted in 1988, the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed, the NFL hadn't launched its European league, and some current devotees of Fall Madden-ness were still in diapers. The series has since developed into the biggest franchise in digital gaming, hosting some of the most critically acclaimed but also controversial incremental installments in simulated NFL history. And we have all 20 covers.
• The 15 Hottest Games of Summer From the much-anticipated Spore to the newest Guitar Hero to shoot-'em-ups galore, here are our recommendations for the games you've got to play this summer.

Software How-Tos

• Six Hacks For Your Mobile Gear Unlock your iPhone, supercharge your camera, and take your TiVo shows on the road for free. These six hacks unleash the hidden power in your mobile gadgets.
• 20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done--or having a tech meltdown.
• Smart Fixes for Your Printing, E-Mail, and Audio Hassles Save on costly printer ink, handle leftover Registry junk, and defeat a common Outlook annoyance. Plus: two cool volume-control tools.
• Easy Solutions for Common E-Mail Headaches Archive important messages for safekeeping, add an image to your mail signature, and clear out corrupted messages. Lincoln Spector answers your e-mail questions.
• Will Microsoft Continue to Activate New XP Installations? Gunther Steinberg of Portola Valley, California wants to know if he'll be able to install Windows XP on a new computer, and have Microsoft activate it, "in 2010 and later."