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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by Covad ********** Switch to Covad business-class VoIP and manage all of your communications from our award-winning Web-based dashboard. Save up to 40%, simplify your network and increase productivity -- and it's unbelievably easy to manage. Call for your free Covad voice assessment today: 877-805-8850 http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107882-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to today's edition of Inside PCMag.com. The embattled Computer Associates company is busy trying to restructure and resurrect itself from the seeming quagmire of mismanagement. Now hundreds of CA employees will lose their jobs in the U.S. At the same time, the company is announcing that it'll hire hundreds of new employees in India. Is this a smart business decision for CA, or bad policy that could leave an unpleasant taste in U.S. customers' mouths? Let's talk in the forums about the choices high-tech companies are making in today's marketplace. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107885-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Review Roundup: CD/DVD Burners and Card Readers in Harmony * Product News: This Week's Hot Releases * Review: A Photo Printer That's Pricey to Run * Utility: Favorites Manager * Product Guide: Digital Cameras * Opinion: Getting the Media into the Car ============================================================ Review Roundup: CD/DVD Burners and Card Readers in Harmony This is truly a marriage made in heaven: Optical storage burners (CD-R and DVD-R) and flash-memory readers. They're single units that read the memory cards and burn the disks. The possibilities for digital-camera and digital-video camcorder users are positively endless. Read our reviews of units from Addonics, Kanguru, and Micro Solutions to decide which one is right for you. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107888-1 ============================================================ Product News: This Week's Hot Releases Dell rolls out a new printer, and Lexmark (the folks who make Dell's printers) follows suit. Plus, Olympus has some nifty new digital cameras and Toshiba's latest Satellite laptop is ready to take off. All this and more in our hot-product announcements report. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107891-1 ============================================================ Review: A Photo Printer That's Pricey to Run The Sony PictureStation DPP-FP30 is another sexy-looking photo printer, but it comes at a cost--or should we say, a somewhat higher-than-average cost per print. This is not unusual for this style of printer, but the device also lacks an LCD. So why do we like it? It's all about the prints. Read our full review for more details. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107894-1 ============================================================ Utility: Favorites Manager Organize your favorites in Microsoft Internet Explorer and learn to browse in a whole new way with our latest premium utility, Favorites Manager. Yes, it helps you manage your hundreds of favorite links, but the real excitement comes when you want to view groups of those pages all at once. It's unique and useful. Get the details in our utility article and then join our Premium Content program to start downloading today. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107897-1 ============================================================ Product Guide: Digital Cameras We've changed the way our product guides look and work. This page now features more product information, and in the Digital Camera Finder you'll find a set of links that will help transport you right to the list of cameras that best fit your needs. Below that is our updated Recent Reviews list (presorted by best ratings and date). If you follow the Advanced Search link in the box above the table, you'll end up on our powerful Product Database search engine. Now you set the criteria for the kind of camera you want. Try it all out. It's fun and bloody useful! http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107900-1 ============================================================ Opinion: Getting the Media into the Car There was a time when "the ultimate ride" meant a Corvette, Lamborghini or Ferrari. Now it's all about the kind of multimedia you can squeeze into four wheels. As Contributing Editor Bill Howard tells it, there are not only factory- authorized ways of getting digital music and video into your ride, but other, hack-your-own-auto ways that may work as well. He has the details on all of it so you can cruise in listening and viewing style. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107903-1 ============================================================ The PCMag.com Bookstore PC Magazine's Windows XP Solutions Ever wish they'd consulted you before they designed Windows XP? Sure, it's a great system, but there's this one feature that makes you crazy. Or that annoying problem that keeps occurring. Well, you can rely on Neil Randall and your friends at PC Magazine to correct that oversight. Here's the complete compendium of solutions to the things that bug you, threaten your security, slow you down, or other-wise prevent Windows XP from running like it should. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1154-1-1-371668-107906-1 PC Magazine Guide to Home Networking Ready to plunge into creating your own home network? 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