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Calibrate your LCD television

Digital Living Play a DVD that has letterboxing bars above and below the image and find a scene that has a roughly equal amount of light and dark material -- preferably with some details in the shadows. Turn up the brightness control all the way, then decrease it...

9 May 2005, 16:14

End the gadget madness and put the iPod down

Digital Living You drive a normal car but you're intimidated by all the people in four-wheel drives with Kevlar roll-bars. We have to stop the gadget menace now, before it's too late. This iPod thing is not a fad. It's not a craze.

18 March 2006, 8:00

Should I buy a camera or a camera phone? review

Digital Living Because they're so small, most of these sensors aren't very good at working in low light, so shots taken in dimly lit bars and clubs suffer from a great deal of digital noise. I've got an old compact digital camera that has just given up on me, so...

Tags: compact, digital camera, lens, cameras

26 November 2007, 8:00

Swedish flirts find a new home

Digital Living This means that members who know each other through online chat, through reading each other's blog entries and looking at each other's pictures, can now take on virtual embodiment as 3D avatars, animated images of themselves, and hang out in the...

23 September 2006, 9:00

How do I set up my TV properly?

Digital Living If you have any THX-certified discs, these will often contain a setup feature that will guide you through getting the best setting from your TV using colour bars and patterns. I've noticed that the picture on my new LCD TV looked significantly...

22 August 2007, 17:32

Consumers frustrated by online music catalogues

Digital Living This is not necessarily the labels' fault, as much as online fans like to demonise them; often, the artist or band in question bars the label from releasing their tracks digitally, either because they don't want their albums broken up into tracks...

16 June 2005, 12:44

Extend your mobile phone's battery life

Digital Living Also, when you make a call, try to make sure that you have three or more bars of signal on your phone. Some phones provide ways of saving energy by putting the phone in standby mode or turning off non-essential features when idle.

14 June 2006, 15:50