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...share each other's best work - call it YouTube for karaoke. Subscribe to the site (it costs $9.95 per month, or $4.95 per month for an annual subscription) and you can upload your home recordings for others to enjoy; members vote for their favorites. You just need reasonably good PC speakers and a microphone connected to the right jack in the back of your computer; the site streams the lyrics in a video window while the song plays. There's a wide selection - everything from the Beatles to Michelle Branch - and the original recording is your accompaniment (no Muzak here...
...best part about the elegant interface is that it encourages collaboration. That is, it allows multiple users, logged in from different computers, to update the same spreadsheet simultaneously while text-chatting in a separate window. (The chart is stored on a Google server, rather than locally on a PC's hard drive.) You can invite others to edit or view your spreadsheet with a quick email without leaving the page. Google, having recently purchased Writely.com is expected to introduce a similar free tool for writers who wish to collaborate in real time...
...little bit rocky. Don't get me wrong - it was very easy for me to preview and download a new Tom Petty song right over the air, and even move it to the removable MicroSD card. However, when I went to install the V Cast Music software on my PC, in order to load songs to the phone, the software refused to install. It turns out I had Windows Media Player 11, but the V Cast Music software can only run on Windows Media Player 10. I was miffed, in part because a newer Windows Media Player should...
...address the increasing number of consumers who view computers as an entertainment purchase. Walk down the aisle of your local Best Buy, and you will see that desktop screens are as likely to display Sid Meier's Civilization as H&R Block's TaxCut. "It's not just a PC anymore. I'm connecting this box to the rest of my life," says Michael Vitelli, senior vice president of consumer electronics. "Dell made its money when the computer was a static box. People want to see the art of the possible, and we can give them that...
RETRIEVING SOME BYTES Leaving your shoes at home is one thing, but forgetting a critical file can ruin a business trip. Sites such as GoToMyPC.com can save the day. GoToMyPC.com lets you operate a PC remotely from any Web browser. A new version lets you drag and drop files from home onto your laptop...