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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by Energizer ********** WIN AN EPSON DIGITAL CAMERA! Energizer sponsors its Hi-Charge Sweepstakes. Here's your chance to win an Epson L-410 Digital Camera and Energizer Compact Charger. 3 winners will be selected. Click here to enter now! http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117575-0-0-0-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to today's edition of Inside PCMag.com. We recently introduced a powerful product database and search engine that lets you find products by specifications instead of just the name. Thousands of people are using it, but we did wonder about how you normally search for a product. When you go to a search engine (ours, Google, MSN, etc.) do you type in a product name or a spec like "3-GHz Pentium 4 processor" or "5 megapixels"? Or perhaps you search for a price reference like "cheap digital cameras." Tell us in the forum how you search for products and what you think of our new engine. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117578-0-0-0-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Dvorak Online: Getting Bluetooth Right * Review: Disney's Vision of a Kid-Friendly PC * Solution: One Love Site's Success Story * Review: A Real Tiny DLP Projector * Special Report: Digital Living in the Kitchen * Preview: A Super-Thin, Super-Cool Phone ============================================================ Dvorak Online: Getting Bluetooth Right Bluetooth has gone through its newbie phase, its over-hyped phase and its "it's over" phase, only to remerge in recent months as a technology with perhaps some promise. But columnist John C. Dvorak thinks that it cannot succeed until its promoters realize that it has one real and essential purpose: the elimination of wires. Get all the details on Dvorak's Bluetooth proposal and then tell him in the forums if you think he's got the problem hard-wired or his wires crossed. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117581-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: Disney's Vision of a Kid-Friendly PC So how much do you love Disney? Enough to buy your child a computer that features mouse ears? What if it also includes much-needed peripherals and built-in parental controls? Disney thinks its Dream Desk PC by Medion has everything any young child and parent could want in a PC. But our tests found a system that, while decent, would be outperformed by lower-priced systems. What's the final word on the PC from the house of mouse? Read our full review for more details and to see our exclusive slide show. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117584-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Solution: One Love Site's Success Story Intrigued by the near-ubiquitous eHarmony television ads? We were, and decided to investigate how this business got started and continues to thrive in the fickle online world. It turns out that it's more than randomly putting to people together and hoping for a love match. This site uses 436 questions, databases, Java apps, and more to harmonize couples. We have all the details in our special report. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117587-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: A Real Tiny DLP Projector IBM's M400 $1,849 DLP projector is about the size of a half- sheet of paper and weighs only 2.4 pounds. There is a small performance tradeoff to achieve this hyper-small size, but in our tests we found that other features like XGA image quality, analog and digital support, and an excellent remote outweigh this issue. Read our review for the illuminating story. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117590-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Special Report: Digital Living in the Kitchen Is the kitchen the last great frontier of computing? Maybe. It's a place where on-demand info and mind-massaging entertainment could be most useful, but is also one of the harshest environments for high-tech parts. Can you have a digital kitchen? Of course you can, and we'll show you the right way to do it. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117593-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Preview: A Super-Thin, Super-Cool Phone We often describe the latest cell phones as "sexy," and end up overusing the term. Then along comes the half-inch-thick Motorola RAZR V3 and, well, there is no better word to describe this striking, thin--still prototype--phone. It's so sexy and unusual that if you were to carry it out in the open, people would likely stop you on the street. We have a hands-on preview of this truly unique device and a collection of cool product pictures you won't find anywhere else. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1238-1-53-371668-117596-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ The PCMag.com Bookstore PC Magazine's Windows XP Solutions Ever wish they'd consulted you before they designed Windows XP? 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