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Actiontec 54 Mbps Wireless Access Point and 54 Mbps Wireless PC Card, by Terry Currier, WINdow users (WINNERS), Costa Mesa, California. Easy set-up and installation make the Actiontec 54 products a must have for wireless computing, especially when you are transferring files, sharing the printer, playing games or keeping up the cable modem speed when more than one person is online. The Actiontec 54 Wireless PC Card will do Dynamic Rate Shifting to automatically select the best available data rate while maintaining the connection and extending range.

Dymo LabelWriter 330, by Bruce Pechman, The Muscleman of Technology ™ and VP of the Atlanta ------ When I’m teaching my Word classes and people want to learn how to make labels, I show them how but then tell them to buy a label maker, and Dymo’s slogan is so true – “Makes life a little bit easier.” The Label Writer’s even make badges these days.

Logitech Pocket Digital Camera, by Bruce Pechman, The Muscleman of Technology ™ and VP of the Atlanta PC Users Group, Georgia. Did you ever want to be just like James Bond? Sure, we all did—but although you can’t quite have 007’s persona, you can have the camera that Bond probably would’ve carried in his pocket all the time --- the Logitech Pocket Digital Camera.

PestPatrol, by Barbara Manning, Tokyo PC Users Group. With all the recent news about serious security breeches in the world’s most well known and used software by Microsoft, it comes as no surprise that a whole industry has sprung up around protecting home, small business and commercial computer networks and PestPatrol is a software company that wants to help you rid your computer of unwanted unwelcome programs.

PhotoShop Restoration & Retouching, by Brent Mockbee, Tucson Computer Society, Arizona. This book is for the person who is very familiar with Adobe PhotoShop and Brent strongly recommends it for the intermediate to advanced PhotoShop user who will be performing any type of restoration or retouching of photographs.

PhotoImpact XL, by Dick Tooley, Orange County IBM PC Users’ Group, California. PhotoImpact XL is a comprehensive image editing program with added capabilities to show slide shows and to prepare detailed web sites. This product from Ulead is for serious amateur photographers.

Shure E2c Earphones, by Bruce Pechman, The Muscleman of TechnologySM and VP of the Atlanta ----. What you read in this review might fundamentally change the manner in which you listen to audio. These earphones incorporate a choice of either soft foam or flex type sleeves to seal out background noise allowing high performance speakers to deliver pure and precise sound directly to your ear canal.

Start with a Scan, Second Edition, A Guide to Transforming Scanned Photos and Objects into High-Quality Art, by Bob Eldred, Tucson Computer Society, Arizona. Do you own a scanner? If you are like many people, you may own a scanner but rarely use it. The value of Start with a Scan lies not simply in describing how to use a scanner or what you need to know to do a scan, but rather what to do with a scan once you have it and how to turn it into an effective illustration, if not outright art.

Windows XP Unwired, by Lloyd Boutwell, Orange County IBM Users’ Group, California. This is definitely not one of your Computers for Dummies books. It provides a lot of information especially useful if you are thinking of going wireless.