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MacBook Air

Digital Living Does the Air float your boat or just lighten your wallet? It's here and it's thin, alright. At 19mm at its thickest part, Apple calls it the 'world's thinnest notebook'.

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18 January 2008, 10:53

Which laptop bag should I get?

Digital Living Some bag manufacturers provide protective hard shells that act as a solid barrier between your stuff and foreign objects, while others use air pockets to absorb any shocks. There are quite a few good laptop bag manufacturers around including, tech...

6 September 2006, 16:58

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living You can't digitise the air Perhaps music subscription services will embrace Secure Audio Path to satisfy the labels' security needs, but I'm hoping the labels are happy enough with Napster's 'pretty good protection' (to coin a phrase) that they...

9 May 2005, 15:48

How to clean your digital SLR camera

Digital Living Never use compressed air on the sensor -- it will freeze on the sensor surface, possibly causing very serious damage. Always go with a mechanical blower, which will provide gentle, dry air to float those pesky dust motes away.

Tags: elements, environments, cleaning, surface

17 September 2007, 11:55

Apple MacBook Pro (2008 Edition, 15-in, 2.5GHz)

Digital Living The latest MacBook Pro takes a touch of class from its Air sibling with new trackpad gesture controls. Fingertips to the ready! Do you embrace the upgrade?

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14 March 2008, 13:36

Apple iPhone

Digital Living Does it live up to all the hyperbole, or has it all been a load of hot air? The most-hyped product of 2007 is finally in the shops in the US.

29 June 2007, 16:47

Web 2.0: this time it's lucrative

Digital Living You even made air quotes: "Two-dot-oh". The Web is changing. Mighty forces are at work and a new Internet is slouching towards a monstrous liquidity event. This reborn Web is vast, huge and unimaginably significant and intense.

1 April 2006, 9:00

Festival photos that rock!

Digital Living British festivals often turn into wild dervishes of mud slinging, and even when it's dry there can be a lot of dust in the air. The first thing you'll need to figure out is what camera to pick for a weekend camping in foreign fields.

17 August 2005, 15:35

CeBIT 2006: It's all about the stuff

Digital Living Packing all these gadgets makes me nostalgic for the old days, when reporters dashed around town with press cards in their hatbands and notepads under their arms, free as air and fleet of foot.because their shoulders weren't sagging under the...

8 March 2006, 15:02

Microsoft's Media Center mansion

Digital Living As we toured the house, slipping on our drool as we gawped at the sky-high ceilings and general air of civilised luxury, it was clear that its owner had been passionate about technology even before Microsoft knocked on his door.

2 June 2005, 18:10

Looking for an underwater camera

Digital Living Be careful not to bump into the coral or damage anything and don't forget to check your gauges -- you don't want to get so wrapped up in your photography that you run out of air. I have been looking at a getting a new camera and since I am a scuba...

14 October 2005, 9:28

Only network electronically

Digital Living Look for an air of exclusivity and a pack of men in pink or blue shirts without ties. However, we must not forget its older, fleshly incarnation -- the real networking event. During the height of the dotcom boom you had to fight off invitations to...

31 October 2006, 10:25

Do I need a TV with 1080i or 1080p?

Digital Living It's doubtful that Sky and other broadcasters will ever send 1080p signals over the air -- it's quite simply uneconomical to do so. I want to buy a new TV and I've heard a lot about 1080i and 1080p -- which sort of screen should I go for?

6 June 2007, 12:14

Transfer your VHS tapes to DVD

Digital Living Your VHS tape may have several seconds of dead air at the beginning, so make a practice run before starting the capture. Fortunately, the job is easy. Aside from a PC and a VCR, all you need is a device to convert your VCR's analogue signals to...

8 August 2006, 16:54

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living We will, inevitably, hear a lot of hot air. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada is a massive industry event at which the world's consumer electronics and personal technology companies show off their new gear, but will we see...

4 January 2006, 11:43