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Do more with your iPod

Digital Living From the new account, in iTunes, click File > Add Folder To Library, and copy over whatever music you want (make sure to check the box next to 'Copy files to iTunes music folder' when adding to library, under Advanced in the Preferences dialogue...

9 May 2005, 14:49

Email on a Motorola Razr V3

Digital Living The way it works is that your phone accesses your email account via a GSM or GPRS connection and the built-in email client. The email client is a program that lets you read and send emails, but in order to use it you need to sort out your operator...

22 May 2006, 15:35

Best Firefox extensions

Digital Living Use your Gmail account to easily store files with this useful extension. An FTP-style interface lets you transfer local files directly to your Gmail account. But while IE maintains a stranglehold on the majority of computer systems, Mozilla's open...

24 August 2006, 11:00

Transfer your data from PC to Mac

Digital Living To get the information to put in the Incoming Mail Server, Account Type and Outgoing Mail Server fields, contact your service provider. If you haven't already set up a Mail account (OS X's bundled email client), a Welcome To Mail dialogue box appears.

9 May 2005, 14:51

How do I unlock my mobile phone?

Digital Living Be warned, though -- you need to be careful who you give your IMEI code to -- it enables people to clone your phone and run up a large bill on your account. I want to buy a new music phone but it's a T-Mobile pay-as-you-go handset and I'm currently...

31 January 2007, 10:37

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living In Roma Victor there will be an initial £20 charge for your account, but that's all you need to pay. I'm a big fan of Michael Crichton's daft 1970s science-fiction movie Westworld, in which Yul Brynner stole the show as a sinister robot cowboy gone...

10 July 2006, 11:16

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

How do I back up my mobile phone contacts, text messages and pictures?

Digital Living But if you've backed up your contacts on ZYB then you can add the details for those text messages once you've logged into your account online. Hi, I want to back up all my mobile phone contacts, text messages and pictures.

8 August 2007, 16:50

Speed up your bootup time

Digital Living To keep an accurate account of your efforts, draw up a table in which you can record your bootup times. Does it seem like the more time you spend with your Windows XP installation, the longer your PC takes to pull itself out of bed when booting up?

2 August 2006, 15:56

18 things to do with your old technology

Digital Living Carry out all transactions via a PayPal account. No, it's not that lottery ticket you haven't checked yet -- it's your old technology. All those gadgets and gizmos you've collected over the years that are sitting unused in the corner of a room or...

Tags: arrange, sends, waste, recycle

16 November 2007, 8:05

The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living I log on to my Plaxo account on the Web perhaps three times a year, say when I'm travelling and want to check my calendar, which has sometimes been useful -- but that's not what I like about it. Here's some principles that govern how digital stuff...

Tags: jobs, care, flow, address book

20 May 2006, 7:58

Mac OS X vs Windows Vista

Digital Living Microsoft is trying, though -- it has added the User Account Controls (UAC) feature, which prevents dangerous software from making changes to your PC. What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Why is belly button fluff always blue?

27 April 2007, 15:34

Google's word processor does the write thing

Digital Living And according to comments on Writely's blog, getting links to people to read your document can present confusing sign-up choices, although these may vanish once Google account integration is worked out.

14 August 2006, 12:07

Camera phones

Digital Living When you take the whole frame into account, you pay close attention to objects in the background or on the periphery of the image. While camera phones are now pretty ubiquitous, sharing the digital photos from a phone isn't yet the smoothest process.

11 May 2005, 11:43