September 11, 2008 2:03 PM PDT

CNET Live - Episode 71

by Tom Merritt
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It's an all-call show as we gave away a free BlackBerry Curve. On eof the perks of watching the live version of the show every Thursday at 4 PM Eastern. However there's still lots of good info for the podcast and on-demand viewers. Here are the notes.

Watch the show on CNET TV.

Things we Crave

Plastic Logic eReader

Stealth helicopter camera

First Look

iPod Touch 2nd Gen.

Free Download of the week

BitMeter

Quick Tip

Speed up your Wi-Fi

Best of the Web

FotoNauts

Your calls

A few more ways to sync your iTunes across several computers, this week using an external hard drive. This forum shows a way to trick iTunes into thinking the main library is permanently on the external drive by pointing to the itunes.itl file.

With the iPhone you can Jailbreak and get voicemails off the phone and on to your computer. This Lifehacker article shows you how. For a Nokia or another phone, your best bet is to play the voicemail over the speaker into the computer as a recording.

A couple easy ways to speed up a Mac are to add more RAM or run Onyx, the optimizer. You can find a few more ways in this article.

Want ringtones on your iPhone but can't get them through the iTunes store? Check out Audiko.net as described here.

The Nokia N810 is probably the best Internet tablet we've found. Our caller was from the UK, so here's the CNET UK review.

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by silentwind96 September 15, 2008 2:33 PM PDT
how do i email the show? can someone shoot me a tex.t message with their email address to 661-201-0322? yes i dont mind posting my number. thats what the filetering feature is for.
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by Adamgilly October 4, 2008 1:36 PM PDT
The CNET Live provided me a look at behind the scene shows,site features and also some personalities.
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