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How To...^ A step-by-step guide to tweaking your PC Experience Take better photos, fix the flaws, and get perfect prints W hethe ...

74 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 (c ontinued from previous page) abilities, grab some small objects (like gummy bears or green army m ...

DECEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC  If you’re shooting moving objects (like Junior riding his new bike), use Shutter Priority to freeze ...

How-to 76 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 Exposure Compensation can only go so far—for everything else, there’s Manual. This mode lets ...

DECEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 77 CORRECT YOUR PHOTOS One of the most common digital camera problems is underexpo- sure. Underexposure ...

If you want to remove unwanted perimeter obstructions or reframe your composition, use the crop feature. You can also use the fe ...

B ack when 3D acceleration was young and Bill Gates’ net worth was still less than $100 billion, a little company named 3dfx rel ...

Best scores are bolded. All tests were run on a Xeon 3.4GHz machine in a SuperMicro X6DA8 with 1GB of registered DDR memory. 3DM ...

Reviews T ornados are measured by the amount of damage they do on the Fujita scale. An “F5” moves houses off foundations while a ...

Reviews ZT Group Pro Gaming PC Intel’s exciting new 1066MHz FSB Pentium 4 Extreme Edition gets dissed by a slow-ass ATI X600 car ...

Reviews Rio Carbon 5GB MP3 Player Wherein the iPod Mini suffers a mortal wound Y ou’ve got to hand it to Apple—the iPod family o ...

Reviews T hink you can judge a case by its appearance? Take a quick peek at the two enclosures featured here and try to predict ...

Apex MP-200 Portable Video Player A dim view of video-to-go N ow that we’ve taken Creative’s Zen Portable Media Center for a wal ...

Reviews W e’ve never been impressed by low-cost notebooks, which tend to sacrifice so many features they feel like a car without ...

Reviews I t takes some real huevos for a company to expand its line of handhelds while everyone else is fleeing the market. But ...

Reviews O nce a solid purveyor of hardware audio accelera- tion, Philips/VLSI has made an abrupt reversal with its new Ultimate ...

A good keyboard keeps your hands healthy and strong, prevents injury, and makes your computing life easier with added functional ...

Reviews E ven in their off state, 23-inch widescreen LCDs are impressive, dominating the landscape of any desktop and conveying ...

Reviews B y fusing Moore’s Law and pho- tography, Maximum PC has known for a while that every successive generation of digicams ...

2eViewS 102 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 Pioneer $V2-! Fastest DVD burner yet—if you can stand its software P ioneer’s release of ...