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How to Save Your Wet Cellphone: Tech Clinic Even if a wet cellphone seems dead, there's a good chance it can be resuscitated as long as you act fast. This is a DIY moment: Your phone's warranty probably doesn't cover water damage. (Published in the July 2008 issue)

3 Expert Sound Improvements for Your Road Trip Great tunes are the cornerstone of any successful road trip. Here are three tips to kick the sound in your ride to the next level. (Published in the June 2008 issue)

Cutting the Cord with Wireless HDMI: Digital Clinic A number of competing standards to wirelessly transmit HDMI signals have emerged. Here's what you should know before adding any of them to your home theater. (Published in the May 2008 issue)

Idle Gadget Fix: 7 Electronic Vampires Defanged Many modern electronic devices draw small amounts of current even when they're powered off, adding real dollars to your monthly electric bill. Here's what you can do to plug those wattage leaks. (Published in the June 2008 issue)

How to Turn Your PlayStation 3 Into a Linux PC (and Win Our Mod) This is that rarest of finds in consumer electronics: a perfectly legal hack that adds functionality. With a little bit of effort and expense, we turned a PS3 into a Linux computer—without losing any of its native gaming goodness. And we'd like you to win it. (Published in the June 2008 issue)

Can Blu-Ray Really Keep Up With Classic Film Transfers in HD? There's no reason movies shot on 35-mm film can't look great in HD; their native resolution is actually far higher than Blu-ray's. Still, not all Blu-ray discs look good—even new releases. (Published in the May 2008 issue)

Is Your Carrier Tracing You via GPS and 911 Calls? Tech Clinic While some carriers determine a 911 caller's location by triangulation, Sprint and Verizon rely on real GPS chips in their phones. If you think this raises privacy concerns, just consider the nature of mobile phones, which are continually connecting to towers. (Published in the May 2008 issue)

Fix Your iPhone's Headphone Jack With a Cotton Swab in 3 Steps Dirt and dust can easily get trapped in the headphone jacks of many phones and laptop computers. So before you take a trip to the Apple store, try the MacGyver trick we picked up. (Published in the April 2008 issue)

Surround Sound Sans Space-Hogging Speakers: Tech Clinic Looking to build a home theater system without filling your room with speakers? Though they do have their shortcomings, a sound bar will do a surprisingly solid job in an extremely compact package. (Published in the April 2008 issue)

Is Your TV Really Ready for 3D Content? Tech Clinic But because it uses software-based algorithms to simulate the effect, the converted films don't look nearly as good as movies that were natively shot in 3D. Still, there's to connect a PC to your 3D-capable TV: a growing number of 3D-enabled games. (Published in the April 2008 issue)

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