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Gee’s Bend Quilts: American Art on Your Desktop
This beautiful Windows 7 theme features richly colored artworks from the artists of the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective.Reviews
Put Some Sparkle on Your Desktop With Christmas Lights
Dress up your Windows 7 desktop for the holidays with colorful Christmas lights and cheerful sound effects.Reviews
Winter Windows 7 Theme: Celebrate the Season in Style
Take a different perspective on winter with these thought-provoking snowy landscapes.Reviews
Bring Nature’s Beauty to Your Desktop With Autumn Leaves
Celebrate the colors of fall with this series of eight beautiful nature photographs, gathered into one lovely Windows 7 themepack.Reviews
ArcSoft Perfect365: Free App Gives Instant Facelifts and Makeovers
ArcSoft's free photo-retouching app automatically removes blemishes, adds digital makeup, changes eye colors, and offers quick portrait enhancements for anyone who doesn't want to use a full image-editing suite.Reviews
Samsung Focus Flash Review: 4G Comes To Windows Phone 7
An attractive budget smartphone, the Samsung Focus Flash impressed us with its slick performance, but its camera was a major letdown.Reviews
Happy Halloween Windows 7 Theme
Celebrate Halloween with this whimsical Windows 7 theme–complete with Jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, and creepy sounds.Reviews
Autumn Harbinger Desktop Wallpaper
This colorful Halloween wallpaper has it all–grinning Jack-o-lanterns, haunted houses, and a harvest moon.Reviews
Zombo-O-Lanterns Desktop Wallpaper
This free Halloween wallpaper presents a ghoulish mashup–zombies and Jack-O-Lanterns–and manages to be both playful and creepy at the same time.Reviews
Windows 8 and OS X Lion: How Do They Compare?
Windows 8 is far from ready, but the developer preview gives us a chance to see how it compares to Apple's OS X Lion.Reviews
Windows 8 Tablet: Hands On
The first Windows 8 tablet, the Samsung 700T, arrives–at least for developers. What can we learn from it?Reviews
Six Big Windows 8 Features for Small Business
Here's a sneak peek at how Windows 8 is shaping up to serve users at work.Reviews
Nine Absurdly Useful File Management Utilities
Show your messy file system who’s boss with these high-quality tools. Most of them are low-cost, and many cost nothing at all.Download This
MobileGo Manages Your Android Phone from Your PC
Share content between your Android phone and Windows PC with handy application MobileGo.Reviews
Windows Phone 7 Mango is a Substantial Upgrade
The new version of Windows Phone 7, code-named Mango, includes substantial improvements to the OS's search capabilities and entertainment options.Reviews
10 Great Error Messages
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Venetica: Venice Meets Death, Death Goes Stone-Carving
Deck13's medieval fantasy adventure folds wooden combat and crude visual design into a mildly interesting tale of necromancy gone wild.Reviews
Flea-bitten: My Life as a Wolf in World of Warcraft Cataclysm
In which I put World of Warcraft Cataclysm's new Worgen storyline through its paces, levels 1 to 9.Reviews
Review: Razer Spectre StarCraft II Gaming Mouse
Razer's Spectre gaming mouse for StarCraft II comes packed with tournament-caliber features designed for casual and enthusiast real-time strategy gamers alike.Reviews
Fast Fixes for Office Annoyances
Frustrated by Office irritations? Follow our quick tips for adjusting settings in Word, Outlook, and more.Reviews
Samsung’s Epic 4G is the Smartphone to Beat
The Samsung Epic 4G sits atop the heap of high-end smartphones by virtue of its sharp display, front-facing camera, superior physical keyboard, and 4G speed.Reviews
Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T-68U118: The Power You Crave in an Ultraportable Package
The keyboard and trackpad on Acer's latest ultraportable laptop aren't perfect, but the sacrifices involved are acceptable when the result is such a sleek machine.Download This
Microsoft’s Free Windows Live Movie Maker Makes Nice–But Simple–Videos
Create polished, if basic, movies and slideshows with free video editing app Windows Live Movie Maker.Reviews
WaveSecure
Use this app to remotely lock and track your lost phone, as well as to back up, wipe, and restore some of your private data.Reviews
Early Windows Phone 7 Apps Mimic the OS
The first apps look great, but they may force you to do more scrolling and swiping than you'd like.Reviews
Windows Phone 7 Impresses on the Samsung Focus and HTC Surround
We've an the opportunity to take a look at the first two handsets running Windows Phone 7 OS, the Samsung Focus and HTC Surround, and found a lot to like.Reviews
Hands-On with Windows Phone 7: Clean, Intuitive, But Missing Key Features
The absence of features like copy/paste, third-party multitasking and Flash support could keep Windows Phone 7 from winning hearts and minds in its uphill battle against Android and Apple.Reviews
Review: Turtle Beach Ear Force PX 21 Gaming Headset
Turtle Beach's PX 21 gaming headset for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC offers a lot more than the usual list of stereo-plus features, but is it enough to justify the sticker price?Reviews
HTC’s Windows Phone 7 Shines: Hands-On with the HD7
Windows Phone 7 is finally here and we got our hands on one of the hottest new handsets, the HTC HD7.Reviews
Sony Cyber-shot WX5 Digicam Is Packed With Fun Modes (and 3D Capability)
The $300 Cyber-shot WX5 digital camera is small and light enough to fit in a shirt pocket, but its variety of shooting modes, including 3D, provide big-time entertainment.Reviews
A First Look at Internet Explorer 9 Beta
Microsoft has released a beta of the next version of Internet Explorer 9 for Windows 7, and so far we like what we've seen.Reviews
The 101 Best Mobile Apps
Tired of picking through thousands of worthless downloads to find a few gems? Here are our favorite mobile apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and more.Reviews
The 49 Best Apps for All Phones
Want the best apps available for multiple phone platforms? Here are our favorite mobile apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and more.Reviews
HP’s Competitively Priced Pavilion DV6 Laptop is Attractively Stylish
If you're in the market for a fully-loaded, competitively-priced laptop, HP's Pavilion DV6 deserves a close look.Reviews
Wapedia: Mobile Wikis
If you have an Android phone and need a Wikipedia browsing app, then Wapedia by Taptu may be the right choice.Reviews
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5: Rugged and Sleek, but Touchy
Sony's tough-but-fashionable TX5 offers excellent low-light shooting, but its touchscreen and menus are drawbacks.Reviews
Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot a Win for Laptop Users
The gadget serves as a mobile hotspot for up to five devices, and injects it with 4G speed (where available).Reviews
Seagate Introduces Flexible FreeAgent GoFlex Storage System
The company's new line of hard drives offers various connection options through removable attachments.Reviews
HP Pavilion p6330f: Stellar Performance in a Plain Package
The performance is strong and the price is right, but a dearth of advanced connectivity options mars this Budget desktop's finish.Reviews
Microsoft’s New Kin Phones Are Designed For Social Networkers
Microsoft's newest social networking phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, have a slick and intuitive user interface that's targeted at the Facebook crowd.Reviews
Microsoft Kin One: Slick Software, Unimpressive Hardware
The Kin One doesn’t have the most appealing design, but the slick and intuitive user interface makes up for it–almost.Reviews
SXSW Festival: Top Five New Apps from Austin
The best apps I saw here are social, location-aware, useful and entertaining. And pretty geeky.Reviews
BioShock 2 Impressions: Leaner, Smarter, Scarier
We take 2K Games' underwater nightmare redux for a spin one week before it's worldwide release.Reviews
HP’s TouchSmart 300: A Versatile All-in-One Media-Centric PC
HP's TouchSmart 300 All-in-One touchscreen PC has some very attractive features, including the company's TouchSmart software that provides full-screen widgets to access music, video, Netflix, Twitter, and other services.Reviews