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Sony upgrades Bravia warranty to three years
Sony is set to announce its Christmas promotion with a free full three-year warranty on all of its Bravia LCD televisions, up from a standard 12 months, starting 1 October.
Flickr adds new photo-sharing idea: Galleries
Flickr has added a new feature called galleries to showcase photos — and this time not just your own shots.
Reviews
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Sony DRX-S70U
Sony's slimline DRX-S70U drive is quite appealing for travellers or those with dud notebook drives -- as long as you've got space for the AC adaptor.
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Pioneer BDR-202BK
Pioneer's drive and bundle is excellent, but also expensive and clearly an early adopter's product.
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LG LH-RH9695IA Home Theatre
This is a great sounding and great looking unit that will work well in medium-sized rooms, and considering its hard disk drive, it is reasonable value for money.
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Roxio Popcorn 2
Roxio Popcorn 2 is a simple and excellent solution for copying and backing up files.
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Lexmark P450
The CD burning capability aside, Lexmark's P450 is just another home photo printer with average printing features and performance.
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Apple Aperture
This imaging work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture could make life easier for photographers who need to sort through large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.
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Toast Titanium 7
Even with no serious competition, Roxio Toast stays on top of its game by adding important new features and beefing up old ones. It's a must-have for Mac users.
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Nero 7 Ultra Edition
Nero 7's new features and low price keep it at the pinnacle of CD/DVD-authoring suites, but some problems mean that you might want to wait for the downloadable version.
Features
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Top free CD/DVD burning apps
Want a quick and dirty app for burning CDs on the cheap? Here are three free options for your music and data desires.
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Desktop shopping checklist
Home PCs still have their place in the sun, thanks to falling prices and ease of upgradeability.
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Newbie's guide to Facebook
What is Facebook and why should you use it?
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Frequent Photo Flubs: 15 picture pitfalls and how to avoid them
Brighter brights and whiter whites! Find out how to get the best pictures in our handy guide.
News
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Sony extending Vaio warranty for faulty Nvidia GPUs
Sony Australia has admitted problems with its Vaio laptops that contain Nvidia GPUs — one year after everyone else.
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Flickr and Getty Images get together
Two of the world's largest image providers have joined forces to allow Flickr users to licence their work through Getty Images.
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World Press Photo 2009 launches
The annual World Press Photo competition landed in Sydney this week, with an astounding range of entries from around the world, including a winning image from Australian photographer Mark Dadswell.
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Google adds ads to Picasa photo site
Google has begun showing ads on search results at its Picasa site for sharing photos, part of its gradual expansion of advertising across its numerous web properties.
DIYs and How-to
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DIY home surveillance with a webcam
Too cheap to buy a real home security system? A webcam gets you part of the way there. We examine a few inexpensive ways to do it with an old computer and some home security software.
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Print, save and organise your digital photos
Learn how to organise your images so that they're easy to find, safely backed up, optimised for printing and much more. Once your digital photographs are transferred to your PC, learn how to "process" them for the best possible results.
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Scanning photo basics
Learn the best methods for scanning a photo into your PC. This guide will get you up and running with your scanner and show you how to get the best-quality results for scanning and sharing your photos online.
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Print labels for CDs and DVDs
Spruce up those boring white labels on the CD/DVD you burn for fun or profit, with easy to use CD labelling software.
Downloads
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Fresh View
Manage and organize image, audio, and video files.
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ImRe
Modify batches of your images and save them in different image format.
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Digital Music Record Edit Burn Studio
Audio record, convert, edit, burn, grab are all supported in it.
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Google Maps Downloader
Download google maps images and combine them into one big image.
The Explain Series
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Get (laptop) smart before you buy
Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
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Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.
Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
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Whereis® maps
If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.
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Commonwealth Bank Mobile Banking
Bank anywhere, anytime. Learn more.
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Nokia Navigation
The introduction of GPS adds a new dimension of 'social navigation'.
Videos
Image Galleries
| Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB | 35 plans |  3% |
| Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB | 35 plans |  3% |
| Nokia N97 | 42 plans | 2% |
| Sony Ericsson Satio | 6 plans | 1% |
| Nokia 5800 XpressMusic | 35 plans | 1% |
| Apple mobile phones | 2% |
| Nokia mobile phones | 1% |
| Sony Ericsson mobile phones | 1% |
| Samsung mobile phones | 1% |
| Blackberry mobile phones | 1% |
