Yahoo Calendar is a great online service for keeping track of your personal and professional schedule, especially if you need to sync with mobile devices and Outlook.
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Cingular Video is a great addition to Cingular's new 3G service, fully making use of the high-speed connection for streaming high-quality video content. What's more, exclusive content and premium services put Cingular Video over the top.
We like the flexible presentation of articles found by Windows Live Academic Search beta, a rival to Google Scholar.
While not without its annoying flaws, Pandora is an interesting idea that will undoubtedly guide even the music übergeek to new discoveries--and it's free!
This simple tool, still in beta, helps you make a basic Web page in a few easy steps.
Though it's still a rough draft, we found the Riya beta face recognition tool to be a convenient time-saver for finding people in our digital photos.
The changes so far within Firefox 2 Alpha 1 are subtle, but they do show that this "little browser that could" can keep up with Microsoft's latest enhancements to Internet Explorer 7 beta 2. Firefox 2 also has some new tricks up its sleeve, such as the ability to restore your browser pages after a system crash.
The Windows Live Search beta allows you to look up images, scroll through search results, and quickly search within a search.
Windows Live provides you with a handy, personal login page featuring all the news you choose, as well as instant messaging, e-mail, and other tools.
While the bulky MVP handset isn't our favorite, the actual Mobile ESPN service--jammed with news, stats, real-time scores, and videos--is sure to thrill road warriors with a fever for sports.
The Sprint Music Store fits the bill if you're looking for instant gratification on the digital music front, but the $2.50-per-track price tag is hard to swallow.
Opera adds BitTorrent support along with Mac-style widgets to the next release of its browser, as well as adding some features already found in Firefox.
It turns out that an open, sprawling interface works better for a search engine than a video store. Google Video will have to take a few categorization notes from Yahoo if it's ever going to challenge the iTunes Music Store.
Though the unreliable video quality won't replace your television by any means, Sprint's Power Vision offers a comprehensive, albeit expensive, selection of content.
If you want to brighten up your iPod or cover up some of its existing blemishes, send it to Colorware--but don't expect the colorful coating to protect against further scratching.
While Firefox 1.5 isn't too different from the original release, what's new should attract even more Firefox users--and that's ultimately good for the Internet.
PayCycle serves businesses with an affordable, easy-to-learn online payroll system.
Google Local and Local for Mobile give you a handy visual view of locations you're interested in, plus let you search the surrounding areas for other items of interest.
The brainy Google Desktop 2 does a mixed job anticipating the content you want. Still, it provides a handy link to files, apps, and Web sites that you access the most, and its search is powerful, too.
