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Yahoo Messenger with Voice 8

Free voice calls and voicemail, built-in Web searches, and drag-and-drop photo sharing make Yahoo's new instant messenger a fun, powerful IM tool.

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MSN Messenger 7.0

A fun and feature-packed IM applet, MSN Messenger 7.0 is a great upgrade for version 6.2 users, but we prefer the less intrusive Yahoo Messenger 6.0 and ICQ 4.1.

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Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

Forget tears at the airport, with Microsoft's LifeCam NX-6000 you can keep in touch from anywhere in the world. With its great protective casing and design, and three-year warranty the LifeCam is deisnged for those on the move.

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Yahoo Messenger 7.0 (beta)

Yahoo's next IM app lets you make free voice calls and leave voicemail, and it adds search and antispam tools.

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Google Talk

With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.

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Google bots speaking your language

Google has expanded its ever growing kit of online tools with a new language translation service.

Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas

Microsoft's newest web tool, Photosynth, is designed to give viewers a much zippier way to stitch multiple images together into a panoramic scene.

Apple's MobileMe suffers more downtime

Apple's MobileMe suite of Web services suffered another outage on Monday that affected an unknown number of its users.

Best free iPhone apps

If you're like us the first button you pressed on your brand-spanking new iPhone read "App Store". Check out our top free iPhone apps.

iPhone: Google Talk, new security threats

Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, however these new applications come in light of new security scares.

Newbie's guide to Flickr

Want your grandma to start using Flickr but don't feel like explaining it to her? This handy guide will have her tagging photos with 'Lasertag Sake-bombs' before you can shake a stick at your beer.

Webcam Buying Guide

Six different webcams available on the market today, some of which are good buys, some to be avoided.

Software that's ready for takeoff in 2008

Keep your eye on these apps as 2008 ticks by. Either stuck in development or newly released, this bushel of newbies is poised to make this year their year.

Web TV Top 10

Here's a list of 10 must-have Web TV bookmarks that are guaranteed to help you find something online worth seeing.

Sites to make New Year's resolutions stick

Resolutions may be made to be broken, but these Web sites help you get granular with goals, and then nag if you fall short.

One instant messenger to rule them all

If you've got buddies on multiple instant messenger networks and are sick of having a client for each, there are solutions at hand.

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Perfect People Icons 2008.3

Get icons of people drawn in avatar-like style for forums or instant messengers.

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AV Webcam Morpher 2.0.23

Create different video and audio images in chat rooms and messengers.

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AV Webcam Morpher 2.0.23

Create different video and audio images in chat rooms and messengers.

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IM Lock Home Edition 2

Restrict online activities by blocking defined applications.

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U5ME Operator Client 2.1.1 build 0103

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