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what's in the box, and setting up The Netgear kit is positioned as a fix for a home entertainment system, and accordingly comes with enough to make an end-to-end connection. The kit includes two pieces of hardware: Netgearís Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter and the Powerline AV Adapter with Ethernet Switch. The AV Ethernet adapter resembles a power brick and is the de ......

If you shoot hundreds of photos every time you use your camera, you may not be happy with the way iPhoto handles large batches of files. The fact that it creates a whole set of copies buried inside a series of folders makes it unsuited to my needs. I take many shots I use only to further my knowledge of shooting with different lenses at different settings. I really don't want to save those in iPho ......

design updates: something borrowed, something blue Ever since the iMac G5 debuted over five years ago, Apple has taken to a surprisingly conservative tack for its all-in-one computer design. The late 2009 iMac shares the same hanging-photo-frame style as its predecessors and inherits all its traits as a result. For the most part, that's a good thing if you're recept ......

When a new Mac operating system appears on the scene, so follows a flurry of books to enlighten us on the latest and greatest features. The arrival of Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard is no different. Books arrived on my desk from a variety of publishers. While Iíd like to introduce you to the whole catalog of Snow Leopard books, there are just too many, and some of them were not avai ......

ergonomics and design When picking up the new Bold we were immediately struck with the clarity and size of the new screen. At 2.44 inches across and 480x360 pixels, the Bold 9700ís screen is one of the largest and clearest weíve seen from RIM yet. Unfortunately, testing proves that it also isn't as bright as we would like. Itís a beautiful sharp, large screen, but ......

Scanner Pro by Readdle purports to turn your iPhone into a portable scanner, as do other apps in the Apple App Store. I was skeptical because the iPhone has only a small, low-resolution camera that didnít even have auto focus until the 3GS model came out this year. So how would using the iPhone as a scanner be any different than using the camera to snap a photo of a document I want to save? Read o ......

hardware and design The EasyPen i405 is relatively small but functional, with a 4-inch by 5.5-inch drawing surface. The pen is of average size and weight, but it feels slightly cheap and could be better built. Inside the pen is small battery housing where users place a AAA battery to power the pen; unlike some tablets, the stylus is as much active as the drawing sur ......

Yojimbo, Bare Bones Softwareís solution to organizing your digital life, provides a catchall place to file all those little bits of information that we all accumulate. Tidbits such as, notes, receipts, links, passwords, quotes (both the literary and financial types), bookmarks, graphics, and PDFs. Yojimbo 2 adds a number of enhancements, including a Quick Input window, enhanced tags, a new icon, a ......

design and the initial setup A quick glance at the S5 won't draw much attention, but arguably the design accomplishes its ergonomic goals well. It looks elegant but unintrusive, as you would expect for an all-in-one audio device. The only controls are a small but easy to use set of mute and volume controls on the top. We do wish Sonos had added a dedicated power bu ......

design Weíll take a moment to restate our introduction: the Sound2 Speakers are attractive. From the correct angle, they look like nothing more than speaker cones; in actuality, that's exactly their nature. The pair almost exactly matches the shape of what's inside with at most two cables attached at the back. Volume is controlled on the back of the master speaker ......

The scanning software for my multifunction printer lets me add each scanned page into a PDF document as I go, but itís a one-shot deal. The pages are assembled in the order I scanned them, but if Iíve accidentally scanned an extra page or want to swap the order around, I have to start fresh from scratch. Forgot a page? Return to start. Do not pass Go. Thatís where PDFGarden 3.1.0 ......

Setting up and the migration tool Those who've used at least VMware Fusion 2 will find much of the version 3 setup process familiar at first; that's not necessarily a bad thing, as it's uncomplicated. The chief addition here is an initial setup page that guides you through creating a virtual machine (VM) based on your goals, such as using your Boot Camp partition or ......

If there are two iPhone or iPod users sleeping in your bed, with two different wake times, and different taste in music, then iHome has an alarm clock for you! iHome has added another clock radio and stereo iPod/iPhone dock to its family. The iHome iP88 Dual Dock Clock Radio and Audio System for iPhone & iPod is similar to the single iPod dock, named the ......

Prizmo is the tidy little application you didnít know you needed, because it ties together all the loose ends of an archivistís dreams. No longer do you need a scanner and special character recognition software, because Prizmo scans your digital camera photos and processes your images to extract the text you need in Mac OS X 10.5.8 and later. Prizmo lets you shift easily between file formats and b ......