shopping season, the busiest shopping day of the year, and the chance for web and brick-and-mortar retailers in a struggling economy to move from the debt of red ink to profits signified by black ink. Over the last several years, it’s become a holiday tradition...

mercury levels, and boost our skills with hot HDR photography.. Long ago, in a life epoch far, far away, I did a fair amount of religious studies—Western, Eastern, primitive, you name it. Here in the West, we have this tradition that reality is defined...

6700 (currently only available in Europe) in the market for 5.1/ 6.1 entry-level speakers. The result is pretty conclusive. The satellites produce sound that is in the pure Altec tradition, not unlike that of the traditional ACS 48 or ACS 45.1 stereo systems....

infuriating.. Publisher: Sony Number of players: 1 to 4 Another Sony title, another genre. With Untold Legends, the publisher moves to the category of action-and-adventure RPGs, in the tradition of classics like Diablo or Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance. The...

much interest, it's only logical that models are appearing that are aimed at a broader market. The Nikon D50 and Pentax *istDL are two examples of SLR models that are more accessible.. As has now become a tradition, both models have a "green position" on...

couldn't compete against Nintendo's flagship. Today, the playing field has changed. Nintendo has traded in its Game Boy tradition for the Nintendo DS. Its only true competitor for the better part of the last five years has been Sony's PlayStation Portable...

periphery, thanks to an effective autofucus even in low lighting and effective stabilization. Colors are faithful to the brand tradition: automatic white balance is effective and retains an agreeable warmth. Noise processing on the new Digic...

provides a player that has just slightly fewer additional features than its Microsoft counterpart. The settings option for the aspect ratio, which Microsoft's media player does not possess, impresses us favourably. Borrowing from the good old MP3 tradition,...

This is the manufacturer's way of ensuring future market share in the sector for thin and light notebooks. Can the Athlon XP-M's LV version match up to Intel's Pentium-M/ Banias? This test provides some answers.. In keeping with THG tradition, the test is...

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