SLIP SLIDING ALONG

“WeVideo” is a free app for making video and photo slideshows. It works on some Android phones and tablets, as well as iPhones, iPads, and the iPod Touch.

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BUYING A SMART TV

We put our small TV on a shelf above a treadmill– gotta crank out those miles — leaving us without a TV for comfortable watching. So we went on a quest for a new “smart TV” that wouldn’t make us feel dumb.

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EASY SLIDESHOW

Just about nothing is as easy for making slideshows as Windows Live Movie Maker, free from Microsoft.

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SITTING DUCKS

A reader asked us a question we’d never heard before. How do you trim the boring parts out of your duck-hunting video? (You know: when there are no ducks.)

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MARKET FRESH ONLINE TV

Online TV is on. Amazon.com has announced six new pilot programs, leading off with “Alpha House,” starring John Goodman. It was created by Gary Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip. Alpha House is about four senators who rent a house together. Viewers will get to vote on whether this program or one of the five others becomes a full series.

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GET NOTIFIED ABOUT THE LATEST MOVIE RENTALS

OnDVDReleases.com lets you know when the latest movies are available for streaming, rental or purchase. It informed us recently that the latest James Bond movie, “SkyFall,” was available for streaming on Amazon Instant Video, for rent on Redbox, or for purchase on iTunes. Amazon or Walmart. We watched it the same day we saw the announcement. If you don’t have a movie in mind, click “March schedule” to see the list of what is newly available. The lists only go back to late 2012. To see Netflix or Blockbuster new releases, click the Netflix or Blockbuster tab.

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TV COMMERCIALS ONLINE

iSpot.TV has over 15,000 commercials you can watch till you drop. You don’t have to buy anything.

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CREATE YOUR OWN EXPLOSIONS

From Bad Robot Interactive comes a new hot app in the iPhone app store: It’s “Action Movie FX,” for adding explosions and special effects to your movies.

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ROTATE THAT VIDEO

To watch a few videos recently sent to us by relatives, we had to turn our heads to the side. We searched for a way out of that and found a free program called “Video Rotator,” from VideoRotator.com.

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SPREADING THE WIRELESS FUN

Instead of fighting over the family iPad on long car trips and plane rides, three people can watch their own movie or TV show on their own tablet, computer or phone, all streamed from a little Seagate box that can hold 300 high definition movies.

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