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Free-range dogs at a little-known, nameless beach in Newport, Calif.

Watch your step: Dog Beach: OC Weekly has 5 pages of photos of dogs cavorting at a secret California beach.

Got a plan? Slacker Offering Free Blackberry Curves. PC Magazine. Slacker Radio is a free phone app. Details of the free newest BlackBerry Curves are at Slacker's freebie page.

Well, Slacker certainly got our attention with this one: the popular streaming Internet radio service has announced that it is covering the up-front cost of BlackBerry Curves - essentially, making them free - for all four major carriers: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile.

AT&T subscribers will get a BlackBerry Curve 8310, T-Mobile subscribers get the Wi-Fi-enabled Curve 8320, and Verizon and Sprint fans get the CDMA-based, 3G-capable Curve 8330.

Best offer: G.M. Sees eBay as a Way to Reach New Buyers.

MYOB: About to do time? Meet your best pal. Former federal-prison inmate Larry Levine counsels those about to go in the slammer -- by phone, since he can't associate with felons.

DIY CSI: How to Build Your Own Digital Forensics Lab, Cheap

Here is the cardinal rule at the beginning of any forensic investigation: Don't touch the suspect's computer or hard drive.

On television you see detectives and CSI staff walk into a crime scene, log onto the suspect's computer and start looking for evidence. Do not do this. Ever. Any touch of the keyboard, or mouse, or even the simple act of powering the computer down, forensically changes the hard drive.