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Insider secrets: Create free iPhone ringtones using iTunes 8.0

Brian Tong shows you how to make your own killer ringtones with iTunes and iTunes only.
Smartphones: T-Mobile G1

T-Mobile's G1 is the first Google Android-based cell phone on the market, and it certainly shows. It comes in at an attractive price...
CNET Top 5: CNET Top 5: Hottest selling gadgets

What are CNET fans plunking their hard-earned dollars down for? We'll count 'em down.
Insider secrets: Track your bandwidth usage for free

Check out these free software options that will help you track your bandwidth on your PC or Mac.
How the Large Hadron Collider works

"60 Minutes" explains how the LHC works.
Insider secrets: Insider Secrets: Supercharge your old router

Free third-party firmware can give your old router all new features.
Tekzilla Daily: Make songs easier to find in iTunes

iTunes makes it easy to find out which songs in your music library appear more than once. Listen to what Veronica has to say, and you'll...
Quick Tips: Quick Tips: Ultimate Track Control for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Brian Tong shows you a new trick with the 2.1 software update for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
Automobiles: Ferrari California

Ferrari's first retractable hardtop. For posers only?
Smartphones: Samsung Omnia (unlocked)

While yet to be released in the United States, the Samsung Omnia is already creating buzz as a serious iPhone competitor with its innovative...

First look from the Labs: Belkin Laptop Coolstrip

The Belkin Coolstrip is a rubberized laptop accessory that is designed to provide a cooling airflow between laptop and surface area.
Automobiles: Audi A1 concept

Audi showcased its new turbo-hybrid concept called the A1 at the 2008 Paris auto show.
Cell Phones: Samsung SCH-U430

The Samsung SCH-U430 isn't terribly exciting but it's a decentphone for making calls.
Auto shows: Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback

At the 2008 Paris auto show, Mitsubishi unveiled its new five-door Lancer, which should turn heads in the U.S. market.
Automobiles: BMW X1 concept

AT the 2008 Paris auto show, BMW unveiled its new crossover SUV for the 1-series, the BMW X1.
Automobiles: Volkswagen Golf GTI

Volkswagen unveiled the next generation GTI, which we'll see next year, at the 2008 Paris auto show.
Automobiles: Audi RS6

Audi showed off the new RS6 at the 2008 Paris auto show, a car that unfortunately will not come to the U.S.
Cell Phones: Samsung Sway SCH-U650

Though its controls could be refined, the Samsung Sway SCH-U650 offers a sleek slider design, a decent feature set, and good call quality.
Automobiles: 2008 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring

Brian Cooley checks the tech on the 2008 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring
Automobiles: Mazda MX-5 Roadster

At the 2008 Paris auto show, Mazda unveiled a new redesign of the MX-5, which strangely looks like a Miata.
Tekzilla Daily: Keep your activities secret in Windows

Vista doesn't hesitate to broadcast your most frequently used programs, but Veronica has a tip that will put your mind at ease.
Video: News: Daily Debrief: Tech stocks plummet with the rest

As goes the market on Monday, with the Dow dropping below 10,000, so goes the tech sector. On the Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi...

Buzz Report: Buzz Report: The sky is falling!

When the sky is falling and apocalypse is nigh, there's only one thing to do: throw caution to the wind and go gadget-crazy!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: The Android has landed

We buzz-kill the new G1 from T-Mobile, the LHC decides to hold off on killing us all, and the kids...are freaking us right out. It's Buzz!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Kissing and telling goes social

In the news this week, a new Web site lets you brag to the world about who you slept with. We kind of thought that was just "the Internet,"...
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Introducing the ZunePod!

This week, Apple and Microsoft give us the best of both worlds...just not together. Also, LHC or Google: which is scarier?
Buzz Report: The Buzz Report: Now with Chrome plating

This week Buzz takes a look at the latest from Google, makes predictions about Apple, and explores the dark world of dark matter.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Space worms attack!

On this week's Buzz Report, the cutest kitten in the world, viruses in space, and starving Googlers.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Burning, burning iPods

This week, Molly has some advice for the Japanese government, and imagines a world in which the Mormons run Facebook.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Introducing Cewebrity Death Match

This week, Buzz wades into the fray as two "cewebrities" duke it out on the Internets!
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Worst social networks ever

This week, Buzz takes on pro athletes and PANKs in evaluating the worst of the social network landscape.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: The best iPhone app yet

This week, the "Scrabble" wars intensify, the best iPhone app yet hits the streets, and Cuil is decidedly NOT cool.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: Android is falling apart

Google's Android alliance is falling apart, and Molly thinks she knows why: something about children, mean parents, and monkeys.
Buzz Report: Buzz Report: How to get your girlfriend to answer her cell phone

This week in Buzz, a magic device for getting women to answer their cell phones, NASA has a leak, and MTV gets into music. Yeah! Music!

Desktops: Acer Aspire X1200-U1520A

The Acer Aspire X1200-U1520A is a speedy, compact, low-end desktop that's powerful enough to serve as a light-duty home theater PC....
Desktops: Sony Vaio JS190J

By virtue of its price, its desktop processor, and its Blu-ray drive, the Sony Vaio JS190J makes a case for itself as the new king...
Desktops: Gateway DX4200-UB001A

We can forgive Gateway for cramming the DX4200 with more memory than it needs simply because its specs and overall performance are...
Desktops: Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)

Apple's smaller-scale iMac remains our favorite all-in-one. And while its looks, its ease of use, and its performance are all selling...
Desktops: Asus Eee Box

The Asus Eee Box is a novelty at best. It can't come close to the same performance and robustness of even the most basic standard budget...
Desktops: Dell Inspiron 518

Configurable midtower desktop, which is between budget and midrange, depending on the options you put in it.
Desktops: Gateway FX4710

The Gateway FX4710 provides enough performance to get you through most of today's games and multimedia software, but the ahead-of-its...
Desktops: Dell Studio Hybrid

The Studio Hybrid is Dell's first small form factor PC. Compared with other systems, it's one of the smallest and best equipped small...
Desktops: Velocity Micro Vector Campus Edition

As much as we like the look and feel of Velocity Micro's Vector Campus Edition desktop, we can't recommend it. It suffers from poor...
Desktops: AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System

AVADirect has a very strong value proposition in its Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System. Assuming you can navigate the daunting shopping...
Desktops: Gateway FX7026

The Gateway FX7026 offers a quad-core processor at a modest price tag with specifications that any high-end gamer will be satisfied...
Desktops: Gateway FX541XT

Gateway's highest-end performance desktop aspires to be everything to everybody. It takes a few missteps, but mostly it succeeds, especially...

>> A company called Open Tech is not learning the lesson from the plight of Psystar. The company announced that it will sell a PC that runs Mac OS X software, which is pretty much what Apple is suing Psystar for doing. Open Tech will sell two models, the Open Tech Home and Open Tech XT. They'll cost between $620 and $1,200 which is a lot cheaper than most Macs out there. The difference between Open Tech's machine and the one by Psystar is that the Open Tech computer won't come preloaded with OS X. It will come with Ubunto, but be compatible with OS X. Still a gutsy move though. Google launched its Wikipedia competitor called Knol this week. It's a user generated information site like Wikipedia, but not quite as open. Google uses what they're calling moderated collaboration, which means any reader can make suggested edits through a Knol. The article's author can then choose to accept, reject or modify before contributions become publicly visible. There are not a lot of articles on the site right now. Also I'm not really sure I have the need for this since Wikipedia usually suits my needs just fine and if I want more reliable information I'll go to the Encyclopedia Britannica's wiki. What do you think, will you use this? Write in at loaded@cnet.com. If you have an Xbox you can get a sneak peak at some of the comedy and horror films from this year's Comic-Con. Microsoft helped to produce some of these films and they'll be made available for free in the fall. Comic-Con is this weekend and you can follow along with some behind the scenes action from the conference on your Xbox. From now until Sunday the Xbox 360 team will cover the show floor and have daily coverage on Inside Xbox in Xbox.com, as well as MSN and Zune Marketplace. For more information visit xbox.com/comiccon08. You can now use your Wii as a photoviewer. Nintendo has partnered up with Fuji film to let users upload and print photos over the internet using your Wii. You can also compile photo albums and order business cards with your ME avatar on them. In other Wii news, Wii consoles in Japan will now have the ability to download and view comic books. Five Japanese comic book companies launched on the Wii this week. Don't expect to see Vista on your work computer anytime soon. That's because 60% of IT Administrators do not plan to deploy Vista to their companies even though Microsoft has released Service Pack 1, which fixes most of the major issues with the operating system. A new survey of 1100 IT managers found that 42% of administrators would consider alternative operating systems like Linux and Apple just to avoid Vista -- ouch! What's more 51% of them said that Windows 7 won't change their plan of tech either. Sounds like Microsoft needs to step up that Vista image make-over campaign that we talked about a few weeks ago. A new survey shows that 40% of gamers are girls. And we're not just talking about casual games like solitaire and bejeweled. A study by the Entertainment Software Association shows that two-fifths of the gamers in the U.S. are women. The study also found that 65% of households have someone who plays computer and video games regularly. It also says that the average gamer is around 35 years old, which is two years older than he or she was in 2006. Now my question is this, if 40% of gamers are women, shouldn't 40% of game protagonists be female? The Wireless HD Consortium has a new company helping out to push the WHDI Standard along. Israeli chip startup Animon is helping companies like Sony, Samsung and Motorola roll this technology out into the market. I wanna spend a few minutes talking about what WHDI is because we're gonna see a lot of wireless high definition services hit the market this year. WHDI is a short-ranged wireless technology that streams your TV from your cable box wirelessly. The signal is uncompressed as opposed to wireless HDMI which compresses the signal on to what's called JPEG 2000. Both models use your home Wi-Fi network. I've only ever seen demos of wireless HDMI. I've actually never seen WHDI in use, so I'm not sure which works better, but I'm excited to see this technology hit the market because it will mean fewer wires in your home, as well as better interoperability between your TV, cable box and possibly computers as well. Greek Orthodox Christians who can't make the annual pilgrimage to the Aegean island of Tinos can still have their prayers read to the Virgin Mary -- if they email them in. Greek Orthodox tradition has church members make this pilgrimage sometimes on hands and knees in order to pray to the Virgin Mary annually. But obviously not everyone can do that, so the church has now decreed that members can email their prayers and have a blessing sent back to them for free of charge. For more information about having your prayers heard, go to the URL on the screen. Those are all your headlines for today and that wraps up your week of getting Loaded, but if you've missed any episodes be sure to catch up at loaded.cnettv.com. Thank you for watching I'll see you on Monday. I'm Natali Del Conti with CNET TV and you've just been Loaded. ^M00:04:46 [ Music ]

Loaded: Avoiding Vista

There's another Mac clone on the loose, and Google launches a Wikipedia competitor. Plus, IT directors don't want any part of Vista, and gaming has some serious girl power.