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Get started with Flickr’s Camera Roll

Lexy Savvides/CNET Flickr has recently opened up the beta version of a new editing tool called Camera Roll. Camera Roll is designed to make the editing and organising process much simpler than the existing Organizer tool. Regular Flickr users may have already experimented with the beta in the past few months, but if you haven’t visited the photo-sharing site in …

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Is Cablevision’s $10 Wi

The average American household spends more than $1,600 a year for cell phone service, so it’s little surprise that families are looking for ways to keep costs under control. This is why New York-based Cablevision’s new $9.95-a-month Freewheel mobile service, which launched last week, sounds so appealing. Cablevision, the first major cable operator to launch such a service, is offering …

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Can audio products be designed to look as good as they sound?

Devialet 120 integrated amplifier Devialet From an outsider’s perspective, most high-end audio gear probably looks like it was designed by and for audiophiles, to the exclusion of everybody else. Big, ungainly speakers with bits of wood trim aren’t going to wow fashion-conscious “civilians,” and mammoth amplifiers with glitzy lights can be eyesores. Not to me — I look past the …

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Google Doodle brings the love, promises a ‘kiss like never before’

This Valentine’s Day, Google Doodle celebrates how tech can bring us a little closer. Google/Screenshot by CNET Whatever you’re searching for this Valentine’s Day — whether it’s romantic love or simply a way to avoid all mention of such things — Google’s home page has gone all lovey-dovey, with a series of animated doodles playfully demonstrating how technology can bring …

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Rare Alan Turing journal shows his genius at work

Cassandra Hatton holds a notebook containing the handwriiten work of mathematician and war hero Alan Turing. James Martin/CNET In a beige, nondescript building on the edge of San Francisco’s industrial district, rare-books expert Cassandra Hatton opens a black, book-shaped case with gold lettering etched on its cover and spine. Inside is an ordinary-looking journal containing the mathematical musings of a …

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How do I get sound from my TV’s apps?

Sarah Tew/CNET If you’ve got a smart TV and a sound bar or a receiver and speakers, chances are you want to get the audio from the TV’s apps through those speakers. I mean, that’s why you bought them, right? Well, depending on how you’ve set them up, it might not be possible. If you’ve been pulling your hair out …

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The Audiophiliac chats with one of the world’s top speaker designers

The new Pioneer Elite speakers and sub Pioneer Electronics Andrew Jones has a degree in physics, but his real passion is speaker design. He started as a research engineer for KEF then moved to Infinity Speakers, but he’s mostly known for engineering with Pioneer; he’s chiefly responsible for their ultra high-end TAD Reference line of speakers that sell for close …

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