• 20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life

  
  A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done--or having a tech meltdown.

• How I upgraded My Laptop's Hard Drive and Almost Lost My Mind

  
  In which a simple hardware upgrade allows me to channel my inner Laurel and Hardy
• Smart Fixes for Your Printing, E-Mail, and Audio Hassles
• Web Photo Fixers: The Slide Show!
• Six Hacks For Your Mobile Gear
• Open Source: What You Can Learn From the French
• IE 8 Hits Beta 2, Privacy Features Added
• Microsoft Warns of IE8 Lock-in With XP SP3
• E-Mail Hoaxes, XP Buyers, and Symantec's Buy
• TinyBooks 6.0 Accounting App Released

Software Reviews

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Photo Editing Software With its attractive new image-editing features and its expansion into online photo sharing, Photoshop Elements 7 is a worthy upgrade.
• Slacker Portable Internet Radio Player Slacker's portable music player and Web service let you take your favorite music with you and discover similar artists, too.
• Apple MobileMe Syncing Service Apple's updated syncing service is a disappointment for PC users.
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 A great update offers several must-have features without cluttering up an already clean interface.
• Microsoft Live Mesh File Sync Service Microsoft has sacrificed usability to provide a pretty interface in this powerful but unnecessarily clumsy file-sync service.

Software News

• TinyBooks 6.0 Accounting App Released Space Time Associates on Friday released an upgrade to its accounting and bookkeeping application, TinyBooks.
• Apple: Forget ICards, Try Mail This June's Worldwide Developers Conference saw Apple unveil the iPhone 3G, firm up its iPhone 2.0 plans, offer a brief peek...
• Ease the Safari-to-iTunes Lyric Pasting Task If you enjoy having lyrics with your music in iTunes, you're probably familiar with the tools available to collect those...
• Bugs & Fixes: ITunes' CD Mounting Bug Most often, when Apple releases an minor update to one of its applications, such as iTunes, its purpose is to provide bug...
• Salling Media Sync Transfers Music to Your Phone Salling Software released Salling Media Sync, a new utility that allows users to sync music from the their iTunes library to a...

Software Playing in PCW Video

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  Golf Simulation: Take Real Golf Swings at Tokyo Bar A new bar in Tokyo lets golfers swing clubs at real balls after work in a software simulation area.
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  Filtering Web Porn: Competition Puts Software to the Test A shootout competition between competing web filtering software packages.
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  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Launch Preview New server OS emphasizes security, virtualization, Web productivity and business intelligence changes.

Software Slideshows

• Web Photo Fixers: The Slide Show! They may not equal their desktop siblings, but today's Web-based image editors may surprise you. Here, we take a close look at six of these free services.
• Must See! Microsoft's Photosynth Makes Photos a 3D Experience Newly live Web site provides users with 20GB of free storage, making it easy to create and share amazing 3D walkthroughs of your favorite places.
• 20 Years of Madden When John Madden Football debuted in 1988, the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed, the NFL hadn't launched its European league, and some current devotees of Fall Madden-ness were still in diapers. The series has since developed into the biggest franchise in digital gaming, hosting some of the most critically acclaimed but also controversial incremental installments in simulated NFL history. And we have all 20 covers.
• The 15 Hottest Games of Summer From the much-anticipated Spore to the newest Guitar Hero to shoot-'em-ups galore, here are our recommendations for the games you've got to play this summer.

Software How-Tos

• How I upgraded My Laptop's Hard Drive and Almost Lost My Mind In which a simple hardware upgrade allows me to channel my inner Laurel and Hardy
• Six Hacks For Your Mobile Gear Unlock your iPhone, supercharge your camera, and take your TiVo shows on the road for free. These six hacks unleash the hidden power in your mobile gadgets.
• Smart Fixes for Your Printing, E-Mail, and Audio Hassles Save on costly printer ink, handle leftover Registry junk, and defeat a common Outlook annoyance. Plus: two cool volume-control tools.
• 20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done--or having a tech meltdown.
• Easy Solutions for Common E-Mail Headaches Archive important messages for safekeeping, add an image to your mail signature, and clear out corrupted messages. Lincoln Spector answers your e-mail questions.