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Quick Tips: Send free text messages on the iPhone

You can use the AIM application on the iPhone to send text messages that don't count against your plan's limit.
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Quick Tips: Take screenshots in the iPhone

How to take a screen capture and save it to your photo gallery.
CNET Top 5: CNET Top 5: Most powerful computers

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Buzz Report: Buzz Report: How to get your girlfriend to answer her cell phone

This week in Buzz, a magic device for getting women to answer their cell phones, NASA has a leak, and MTV gets into music. Yeah! Music!
CNET Top 5: CNET Top 5: Reasons to hate the iPhone

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Quick Tips: Erase iPhone data

Use Apple's new built-in way to erase all the data on your iPhone.
Quick Tips: Save Web images on the iPhone

If you see a picture you like on the Web, you can save it to your iPhone's photo gallery.
First look from the Labs: Shazam

This clever musical iPhone app knows a song's artist, title, and album after listening to a snippet of a recorded song.

Auto shows: KIA Soul

KIA gets some badly needed style.
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MP3 players: Apple iPhone 3G: Music features

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Quarter after quarter, Apple seems to roll out its strategy of under-promising and then ultimately over-delivering. In Tuesday's edition...
Today in Tech History: July 23, 2008

Television goes international and high-def.

Buzz Report: Buzz Report: How to get your girlfriend to answer her cell phone

This week in Buzz, a magic device for getting women to answer their cell phones, NASA has a leak, and MTV gets into music. Yeah! Music!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: iPhone 3G: Steve Jobs hates you

Inside the mind of Steve Jobs, BOB will ruin your relationship with your kids, and can anyone explain Twitter? It's Buzz!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: CBS takes over

This week on the Buzz Report, the Eye makes some serious changes, and Microsoft just cannot leave Yahoo alone.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Closing the Gates

Buzz Report bids a fond farewell to Bill Gates. Thanks for the memories, buddy!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Where the pimps are

The Buzz Report digs into the deep, dark world of Craigslist. Also, the Firefox Games, and kitties!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: iPhone: The aftershock

We ruminate on what isn't in iPhone 3G, and what it means for our phone futures. Also: the shocking Obama-Coors Light connection.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Eye on iPhone

Here we go again. This week, a special pre-iPhone episode that we'll hate ourselves for in the morning.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Mars edition

This week, we're just in love with that plucky, Twitter-loving Mars Phoenix lander. If only it weren't going to freeze to death soon.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Fuzzy math and building-sized hookers

This week, we see how much money the RIAA could have made on DRM-free music, and Brian Cooley takes on 'GTA IV' in grand and furious fashion.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: iPhone shortage scare intensifies

Stockpiling, frantic searching, and wild predictions ensue as iPhone disappears from online shelves. Also: Manbabies!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Sex on a cell phone

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Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Extreme video game violence

Babies come under attack in a shocking video game release, Microsoft biffs it big-time, and people sing. And we wish they wouldn't.

Digital Cameras: Nikon Coolpix S210

Though it's stylish, affordable, and easy to use, the Nikon Coolpix S210's performance and photo quality aren't nearly as pretty.
Digital Cameras: Nikon Coolpix P80

One of the better 18x megazooms, nevertheless you should consider the Nikon Coolpix P80's sluggish performance before you commit to it.
Digital Cameras: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W120

It's not as feature-laden as higher-end models, but the Cyber-shot W120 offers plenty of style and substance for the price.
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Digital Cameras: Canon PowerShot SD890 IS

A solid compact snapshooter, the Canon PowerShot SD890 IS nevertheless disappoints when compared with its predecessors and line-mates.
Digital Cameras: Nikon D3

A high-end camera with a high-end price tag, the full-frame Nikon D3 will not disappoint.
Digital Cameras: Pentax K20D

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Digital Cameras: Pentax K200D

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Digital Cameras: Sony Alpha DSLR-A350

The Sony Alpha DSLR-A350 isn't worth the price for the resolution bump unless you're prepared to spend a disproportionate amount of...
Digital Cameras: Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd

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