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According to a report from PC World Magazine, Microsoft plans to continue selling Windows XP though 2009.

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Near as we can find, this is definitely something new. It’s an underwater video camera, Sanyo model “Xacti VPC- E1.”

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If you’re an experienced user of Microsoft Word and Office and recently switched to the new 2007 version, you’re in big trouble. They changed the commands; much of what you knew before is now worthless. They must have had some great corporate meetings deciding on that one. But not to worry, we found a fix.

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If you’re an experienced user of Microsoft Word and Office and recently switched to the new 2007 version, you’re in big trouble. They changed the commands; much of what you knew before is now worthless. They must have had some great corporate meetings deciding on that one. But not to worry, we found a fix.

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The list of free photo organizers got a little longer. There’s Adobe’s free Photoshop Album, Google’s Picasa, and now a new version of MediaOne from Corel.com. What these programs do is essentially create photo albums and some editing tools are thrown in.

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Pinnacle has a nice, free video-editing program called VideoSpin. They require the user to register the software to use it, but there is no charge.

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We tested the two leading OCR programs against each other and as these things often turn out, each is better at some things than the other.

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AT&T has a new desktop phone with an unusual feature: it will pick up cell phone calls.

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The Craig’s List of India and MP3s at Amazon.com

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Tons of readers have written to complain that our column recommending the free spyware removal tool Spybot — Search and Destroy misled them. It’s not free, they said. But it really is free.

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