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Digital Life #75: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
This week, we examine the new CNET Christmas Gift Guide and look at gaming and GPS, play the year's most controversial games and reveal the tech word of the year.
Twitter desktop round-up: Top 5 free apps compared
Forgo Twitter.com's dreaded "fail whale". How? Tweet from the desktop. It's more reliable at times, and sophisticated desktop apps are packed with useful management features.
Reviews
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HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless
The HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless makes a convincing inkjet argument for offices with a high volume of prints. With a function touchscreen, multiple networking options and an astoundingly fast print speed, it makes perfect sense to give this workhorse an Editors' Choice award.
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Brother MFC-990CW
The Brother MFC-990CW is a speedy, fully capable all-in-one device that earns our recommendation for an individual or a family that will make use of its touchscreen and telephone/answering machine.
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Brother DCP-165C Multifunction Printer
We've tested plenty of printers at CNET, but very few have frustrated us as much as the Brother DCP-165C multifunction has. The counter-intuitive set-up, bland design, deplorable print quality and crawling output speeds earn this printer a double thumbs down.
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Kensington SlimBlade Trackball
Kensington resurrects a dying breed with the SlimBlade Trackball, but the potential of its unique shortcut buttons devolves into a mess of clumsy extra functions and awkward movements that restrict productivity.
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Sony Ericsson W705
Average call quality on an otherwise killer music mobile. The W705 ticks most of the right boxes, and is cute as a button, but is letdown in a few key areas.
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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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Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
With Creative Suite 4, Adobe aims to make Flash easier for newbies to learn and less of a hassle for veteran users to use.
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 isn't perfect, but it's the best dictation software available. We don't find this upgrade necessary for the most basic dictation, although new features may benefit heavily-accented English speakers and those who rely heavily on voice commands.
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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iTunes: Just how random is random?
Think that song has appeared in your playlists just a few too many times? David Braue puts the randomness of Apple's song shuffling to the test -- and finds some surprising results.
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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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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.
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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.
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3 trials DVB-H rival for mobile TV
3 and Ericsson claim they are first to trial Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) in Australia, a mobile TV technology that delivers content over existing 3G networks more efficiently.
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Flickr expands beyond English-speaking world
Yahoo's photo-sharing site will work in seven new languages, and the company expects new members out of the expansion.
DIYs and How-to
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How to share files between Office and iWork
Sharing between these two office suites is possible but clunky. Follow our guide to make sharing between Apple iWork and Microsoft Office easier.
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Five tips for stealthy Facebooking
Want to spend all day on Facebook without getting caught? Here's how.
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CNET.com.au's quick guide to handheld operating systems
In this quick guide, we take a look at the functionality and applications of the four main handheld operating systems -- Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry.
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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.
Downloads
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Bible Touch NBLH for iPhone
Get a Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy Spanish translalated Bible on your iPhone.
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Dictionary .NET
Translate texts and words between various languages.
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EBook (for UniFEP)
an electronic book (e-text/e-book) viewer
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English Irregular Verbs (with translations in Spanish)
Language module for BDicty dictionary program.
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'.
Image Galleries
| Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB | 35 plans |  1% |
| Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB | 35 plans | 2% |
| Nokia N97 | 42 plans |  4% |
| Sony Ericsson Satio | 6 plans | 2% |
| Nokia 5800 XpressMusic | 35 plans | 1% |
| Apple mobile phones | 4% |
| Nokia mobile phones | 6% |
| Sony Ericsson mobile phones | 1% |
| Samsung mobile phones | 2% |
| Blackberry mobile phones | 1% |
