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Festival photos that rock!

Digital Living He stopped for a second while another festival-goer scribbled on his body. It'll take some practise to locate the shutter button when it's hidden in a bag, but you'll still get great shots without the risk of water damage to your camera body.

Tags: risk, moment, subject, photographs

17 August 2005, 15:35

Dualit DAB Kitchen Radio

Digital Living With its shiny chrome front and curvaceous body, Dualit's radio looks more like a muscle car (or a toaster) than a receiver of digital broadcasts. It's big, it's bold, it's heavy -- but is it the real deal or a trumped-up pretender?

8 September 2006, 11:42

Nokia 6280

Digital Living The 6280's big screen and chunky body conceal a slide-out keypad, although the interface lets you use most functions with the phone closed. If you're looking for 3G in a slide phone, look no further. Is it a big hit, or just big?

28 April 2006, 14:58

Nikon D300

Digital Living This dSLR body rocks both, but does the price leave you feeling slightly soggy? Live View and weatherproofing is all the rage in cameras these days, haven't you heard?

Tags: nikon, cameras, body, rage

1 February 2008, 13:02

Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living Instead of being limited to emoticons and text, you can move around in a virtual 3D space and chat via cartoon speech bubbles that appear over your avatar's head, complete with a huge range of body types, costumes and backgrounds.

8 August 2006, 17:33

Don't let your children catch DVD

Digital Living By this time, your child is a red-faced ball of frustration beating his forehead against your LCD screen, your entire body is bathed in sweat, and you still have to watch Monsters, Inc.for the 375th time.

24 April 2006, 12:09

Choose the right Bluetooth headset

Digital Living In 2003, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), a body that oversees the technology's development, released version 1.2 and rolled out version 2.0 a year later. The benefits of these hands-free, wireless devices are obvious, particularly as it...

15 August 2006, 17:46

Web 2.0: this time it's lucrative

Digital Living One caveat: in certain situations, such as when creating a man-monster from grave-robbed body parts, the crowd may grab pitch-forks and storm the castle and burn it to the ground. Mighty forces are at work and a new Internet is slouching towards a...

1 April 2006, 9:00

Halo 2 starter kit

Digital Living Head shots deal significantly more damage than body shots, especially after you've dropped a player's shields, so if you practice your ability to ignore the auto-aim mechanic of the game and aim straight at an opponent's head, you should find...

13 July 2005, 17:38

What's the best type of image stabilisation?

Digital Living As a last resort, tuck your elbows into your body to minimise the amount the camera can waver around. I'm looking to upgrade my digital camera for a new one, but this time around I want something that will take less blurry pictures.

25 July 2007, 13:16