volume

Do I need to pay more than £30 for earphones?

Digital Living This allows you to keep the volume down, thus protecting your ears, and better enjoy your music. I've seen earphones cost from about £20 to £500. I can't understand what makes something like that worth so much money.

Tags: noise, compressed, speaker, pair

17 October 2007, 14:30

What is Freeview Playback?

Digital Living In reality it's a bit more limited because there isn't quite the volume of material available on Freeview that there is on Sky. I've seen adverts for Freeview Playback and noticed that there are a couple of Freeview receivers with the logo on them.

27 June 2007, 10:35

How do I listen to the music on my PC in another room?

Digital Living Assuming you don't simply want to crank up the volume of your PC speakers, you're going to have to buy a wireless music streamer. I've got all my music ripped to my PC, which is in the study. Is there a way I can listen to the tunes stored on my...

21 February 2007, 16:44

Extend your mobile phone's battery life

Digital Living A loud ring and the vibrate mode also use up a lot of power, so turn down the volume and turn off the vibrate mode if you don't need it. Nowadays phones have a tonne of functions and all of them drain battery power, so if you don't need something...

14 June 2006, 14:50

End the gadget madness and put the iPod down

Digital Living I've even got a battery-powered Boosteroo three-way headphone volume booster, in case I need more power -- fast. This iPod thing is not a fad. It's not a craze. It's an arms race, and it's going to end badly.

18 March 2006, 8:00