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My Japanese Coach
Although pitched as a guide for tourists, My Japanese Coach is better suited to those who want to spend some prep time building a more extensive vocabulary to regularly interact with Japanese speakers.
Best free iPhone apps
If you're like us then the first button you pressed on your brand-spanking new iPhone read "App Store". Check out our top free iPhone apps.
Reviews
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Adobe Soundbooth CS4
Adobe's Soundbooth CS4 audio editor is supposed to be relatively simple for audio beginners to tweak speech, songs, and all sorts of sound effects.
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de Blob
Painting the town red, blue, or any other colour is a lot of fun in this charming Wii platformer.
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Soundmatters foxLmb Bluetooth Speakers
We're not sure this is the "audiophile's"' speaker system the packaging claims it to be, but for the money these make an excellent transportable alternative to bulkier systems.
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Conceptronic Grab 'n' Go Multimedia Player
The Grab 'n' Go Multimedia Player makes a decent play at the budget-end of the playback market — but its limitations are obvious.
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Apple iPhone
Despite some flaws, the Apple iPhone sets a new benchmark for an integrated phone and MP3 player.
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Garmin Nuvi 310
This all-in-one GPS navigator, translator, entertainer and tour guide could have been very good, but lead us down a few too many long and winding roads.
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TalkMan (PSP)
This interactive translator and language tutor helps you communicate in six foreign languages, and makes for a novel, if flawed, travelling companion.
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Microsoft Student 2007
Microsoft Student 2007 is a friendly, thorough homework resource for primary and high schoolers learning maths, foreign languages, literature, and more, but you'll need to buy Office to fully use it, and you'll pay dearly for tech support.
Features
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Microsoft Techfest 2008: New language tools for the web
Microsoft Research shows off some new language tools they're working on.
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Digital encyclopaedias put the world at your fingertips
Digital encyclopaedias Microsoft Encarta 2006, Encyclopedia Britannica 2006, and Wikipedia let you look up any subject in a second.
News
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US military enlists iPhone for battlefield
The hottest new battlefield weapon in Baghdad is also a hot item on the home front.
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Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus
Borrowing techniques used in machine translation, a team of researchers in Redmond believes it has found a better way to serve up synonyms.
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Nokia's Ovi Store in detail
Yesterday Nokia announced Ovi Store, which seemed to be the Finnish giant's answer to the wildly popular app stores on Apple and Google phones — but there's a twist.
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LittleBigPlanet recalled planetwide, new date issued
Quotations from the Qur'an in its soundtrack prompted a last minute delay of Sony's platformer, but the game is now expected to arrive in Australia on November 7.
DIYs and How-to
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Set Firefox on fire
Firefox's many new extensions can make a good browser into a great browser. We show you how.
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DIY: Parents' guide to online safety
Your children will surf the Web, chat, and download files. With some help from these software tools, you can protect them while they do what kids do.
Downloads
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Audio Pocket Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus (Symbian S60 5th Edition)
Get an up-to-date information on the core vocabulary of current English.
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Audio Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Symbian S60 5th Edition)
Get an up-to-date information on the core vocabulary of the modern Italian and English.
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Audio Oxford French Minidictionary (Symbian S60 5th Edition)
Get the essential information of the core French and English vocabulary in accessible format.
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Collins Polish Dictionary (Symbian S60 5th Edition)
Refer to a Collins Polish dictionary with over 63,000 head words and 120,000 translations.
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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