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How do I make cheap calls on holiday?

Digital Living Another alternative is to buy an international SIM card from a company such as 0044, which you can buy over here and will let you make and receive calls in several countries for a reduced price. I'm about to go on a very long holiday that involves...

14 June 2007, 8:08

How do I get more HDMI ports on my TV?

Digital Living The cheapest we were able to find was made by a company called XtremeMac. My Toshiba 32WL56 has only one HDMI port, which is already used by the Sky HD Box. I want to buy an upscaling DVD player to get the best out of my collection, do they need an...

9 May 2007, 17:23

How do I unlock my mobile phone?

Digital Living Make sure you use a company that you trust and never give out your IMEI number without knowing what it's being used for. I want to buy a new music phone but it's a T-Mobile pay-as-you-go handset and I'm currently on an O2 contract.

31 January 2007, 10:37

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living Anyone thinking about upgrading their phone should recycle the old one with a company such as ActionAid or Envirofone, so that it doesn't end up in a dump or unused in a drawer. Anyone thinking about upgrading their phone should recycle it with a...

28 November 2006, 16:06

Swedish flirts find a new home

Digital Living As of today, the company is bringing its members into the online virtual world of Second Life, with their own dedicated island, their own wardrobes and integration between their current Playahead online profile and their Second Life account.

23 September 2006, 8:00

Choose the right Bluetooth headset

Digital Living Motorola has also joined the fashion game with its headsets, which are mostly designed to match the company's phones. The benefits of these hands-free, wireless devices are obvious, particularly as it's illegal to use a handset in the UK while...

15 August 2006, 16:46

Google's word processor does the write thing

Digital Living A journalist I know (and an impeccable source) worked at Microsoft as a consultant several years ago, advising the company on ways to improve its software, and he asked the team why the word-count feature wasn't easier to find.

14 August 2006, 12:07

What do bloggers want?

Digital Living His company aims to make this happen by taking the rising stars of the blogosphere and tricking out their Web sites with the kind of blue-chip advertisers who would normally be lavishing their ad spend on more traditional Web sites, such as this one.

15 July 2006, 8:00

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living This creates a great revenue stream for the company, but leaves a bad taste in the mouth -- like health clubs and gyms that rely on the people who don't show up. For Mr Fraser-Robinson, who is president of Redbedlam, the British company that's...

10 July 2006, 11:16

Bringing it all back home

Digital Living This setup means that I need to deal with a phone company, a cable company, a mobile phone company and a satellite television provider and I get umpteen bills from all these different suppliers. I don't want my phone company to bombard me with new...

1 July 2006, 8:00

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living At BT's Total Lifestyle day on Wednesday, press and analysts were invited to learn more about the company's new products in a space carefully dressed to feel like all Apple's previous marketing campaigns.

26 June 2006, 16:33

The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living My company uses it so I have to, too, and I end up using it for personal information as well as work stuff. Here's some principles that govern how digital stuff should flow in our lives. The first is that when something goes wrong all the stuff we...

Tags: jobs, care, flow, address book

20 May 2006, 7:58

A mobile phone to take me home?

Digital Living Before you buy one it's worth making sure your phone is compatible, you can usually find this out on the company's Web site. I work all over the UK, but until now I haven't bought a sat-nav because I don't like carrying too much stuff around.

28 April 2006, 10:49

Web 2.0: this time it's lucrative

Digital Living Then along comes a fascinating new application like MySpace.com and bang: you buy the company for $580m. Mighty forces are at work and a new Internet is slouching towards a monstrous liquidity event. This reborn Web is vast, huge and unimaginably...

1 April 2006, 8:00

Make the most of high-def content

Digital Living You'll need one of the company's new TVDrive boxes, which is also Telewest's first hard drive recorder. We contacted the company to ask for more details but they wouldn't disclose anything -- keep an eye on their website (http://www.telewest.co.uk...

13 February 2006, 9:37