Makin’ copies

Opinion
Oct 19, 20062 mins

Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert

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Makin’ copies

Have to produce a CD or DVD in a flash? Keith makes marketing happy with the Primera Bravo SE Disc Publisher, which can mass-produce CDs or DVDs and professionally print directly on the disc as well.

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Belkin launches TuneCast 3

I’m a big believer in the phrase “third time’s a charm,” especially when it comes to technology products. So for Belkin, its TuneCast 3 universal FM transmitter should be a winner when it comes out in November. The TuneCast 3 lets users listen to music from an iPod, MP3 player or portable DVD player through the car stereo system (or any FM stereo receiver).

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Diskeeper 2007 includes ‘InvisiTasking’

Disk defragmenters are not usually high on the “coolness” scale, but it’s one of those things a good computer user needs to do often. At least Diskeeper Corp. keeps things somewhat hip with new features on their defrag software upgrades.

Palm slims down its Treo smart phones

Palm today launched the Treo 680, a slimmer version of the Treo line of smart phones with the capabilities to access GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks (and operate as a quad-band world phone).

Keith Shaw is an award-winning editor at Network World. In addition to creating the Cool Tools universe of columns, blogs and videocasts, he also edits the weekly DEMOletter newsletter http://www.demo.com/demoletter and is the senior editor of product testing at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/. You can reach Keith at mailto:kshaw@nww.com