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Best of the forums this week: Why Earth hasn't imploded

Crave Downloading musicPokeh offers up his reasons for still buying CDs in this downloading age. As if all the iTunes news this week wasn't enough, our forums have been burning with musical discussion with the fury of a thousand suns.

Tags: physics, hole, drm, steve jobs

15 September 2008, 10:23

N-Gage platform launched: All your phones are belong to us

Crave Downloading games is possible via your mobile's over-the-air data connection, such as 3G or Wi-Fi -- be warned that you may be charged data for downloading games over a mobile network, depending on what kind of contract you're on.

Tags: platform, playing, air, gaming

7 April 2008, 14:44

Buffalo LinkStation Pro: Where everything goes

Crave We're all obsessed with downloading gigabytes of movies, music and TV -- the problem is where to put it all. You kit yourself out with a PC sporting a huge 250GB hard drive, but within weeks it's so full of movie trailers, MP3s and BitTorrented TV...

Tags: buffalo technology, storage, usb, played

30 November 2006, 10:26

Crave Podcast 6: Digital rights management? No thanks...

Crave Run for your lives, or at least your MP3 players -- the latest Crave podcast is here, ready for downloading on the hoof, at your desk or while eating chocolates in a domestic bathing facility. Thrill as we ponder the launch of GameSpot UK, consider...

2 May 2006, 13:11

Crave Podcast 6: Digital rights management? No thanks...

Crave Run for your lives, or at least your MP3 players -- the latest Crave podcast is here, ready for downloading on the hoof, at your desk or while eating chocolates in a domestic bathing facility. Thrill as we ponder the launch of GameSpot UK, consider...

Tags: podcast, gamespot, gamespot uk, downloading

2 May 2006, 12:11

Five of the best iPhone games

Crave If you're lucky enough to own an iPhone or an iPod touch, you'll know there's loads of games available for them -- but which ones are worth downloading? We've scoured Apple's app store and played many an awful game to bring you five of the best.

5 November 2008, 11:56

First Look: Hitachi DZ-MV580E DVD CAM

Crave The idea of a camcorder which records video straight to writable DVD seems quite sensible -- most of us have DVD players at home, and this approach cuts out the time consuming process of downloading the footage to a PC and burning a disk.

Tags: disc, problem, loading, mechanism

14 March 2005, 15:45

DRM-free music downloads outselling DRM by four to one

Crave We told you so.Not only that, but sales of complete albums account for 70 per cent of downloads by value -- an interesting contrast to the opinion that ad hoc downloading lets customers just pick their favourite tracks from albums.

Tags: labels, albums, tracks, sales

8 November 2007, 11:46

Blackberry 8707v: Speedy Gonzalez's BlackBerry of choice

Crave The 8707v is identical to the Blackberry 8700g and features the same form factor, speakerphone and dedicated call keys, but with the added 3G boost, surfing the Web and downloading data will be significantly quicker.

Tags: rim, blackberry, keypad, qwerty

27 March 2006, 11:00

Crave Podcast 80: Is BBC iPlayer breaking the Internet?

Crave Web access firms want cold, hard cash from Auntie, because users are clogging up its networks by downloading TV re-runs. It's podcast Friday! The big eight-oh is upon us, but far from going all geriatric, we've attacked the Crave microphones like...

Tags: tech, isps, robotic, downloading

11 April 2008, 9:00

BullGuard Internet Security 8: No bull, this is good

Crave Old-school file sharers should remember BullGuard -- it was built into the Kazaa P2P client to help minimise the chances of downloading and using infected files, and worked pretty well, mainly because BullGuard uses scanning technology from...

Tags: anti, microsoft outlook, virus, ups

28 November 2007, 8:00

Rory's Christmas Shopping: Poor man's Xbox 360

Crave And capable of downloading 'interesting' Web content. When our editor first said we'd each be given £5,000 Virtual Crave Pounds to spend on whatever Christmas gifts took our fancy, I immediately logged on to the Autotrader Web site in search of a...

Tags: microsoft, console, hard drive, value

2 December 2005, 17:00

Panasonic TH37PV500: Vive la Viera

Crave We quickly set about downloading the new Fight Night Round 3 demo through Xbox Live, and the near-photo realistic graphics will make anyone believe that the £3,000 investment in TV and console is worth it.

Tags: panasonic, xbox, viera, downloading

20 January 2006, 10:49

Virgin Music Download Starter Pack: MP3 players made easy?

Crave And when it comes to downloading music, it doesn't get much easier than iTunes. Those trendy types at Virgin don't think you know how to download music and play it on your MP3 player. They probably think you use your MP3 player as a paperweight or...

Tags: pack, song, battery, usb

15 August 2006, 10:17

BlackBerry 8300: Curve up the smart phone slopes

Crave It's a shame there's no 3G, Wi-Fi or GPS connectivity, however, since it would make browsing the Web and downloading data much faster. Yesterday RIM announced the lightest, slimmest BlackBerry to date, unusually named the Curve.

Tags: rim, connectivity, blackberry, curve

4 May 2007, 11:09