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When Google Earth launched a hardly any years ago, it captivated the imaginations of many computer geeks and map nerds. Today, when you download the program onto your computer, you can encounter panoramic photos, Wikipedia factoid pop-ups, indirect travel itineraries, 3D renderings and all kinds of other geographic Easter eggs. But you'll only observe them if you know how to navigate Google Earth's virtual globe. PC gamers are comfortable moving through 3D environments with happy mouse and keyboard. They don't need any help swooping and diving around Google Earth like Superman. I mistrust I'm more of a Lex Luthor: ...

Since this is the last Gadget of the Week column prior to Christmas, I decided to lend a hand to any panicked last-minute shopper-or any happy electronics store gift-card recipient. We covered a lot of noted potential gifts in November's tech buyer's guide, but here are a few additional essentials: ...

The populate who brought you the weird music stranger iZ have come out with another equally alien device, called Zoundz. It looks like the sort of leisure resort Captain Kirk might encounter in a martian boudoir, a shiny white puddle with colorful, crazy-shaped blocks and blinking lights. You stir the blocks to occasion and manipulate the music, and the lights weir-guard-lock in step. Six of the blocks have sound sequences built in—string, keyboard, percussion, etc. The seventh block is for recording your own five seconds of audio. By moving the music blocks encompassing on the three light patches, you ...

I am not a professional photographer, nor am I a devoted hobbyist, however I do like to take good pictures. Digital SLR cameras resemble older single lens reflex film cameras in form and province but don't mind if you shoot mostly in "auto," that is to say, "idiot" mode, so I like them a lot. ...

November has been a busy month for Cingular, which launched the Sync music phone and BlackJack Windows Mobile smartphone, both by Samsung, and then the eagerly awaited Palm Treo 680. My original purpose. was to criticism the Treo 680, but I decided there just isn't enough to say about it: it's no slimmer than its predecessors, and Cingular will have to pack better, user-friendly e-mail software into it if it's going to invite non-corporate types, or indeed anybody but Palm customers in search of a reinstatement to their Treo 650. ...