calling

How do I make cheap calls on holiday?

Digital Living There are three main ways of calling home while on holiday or travelling. If this all sounds too complicated, buying a calling card in the country you're visiting and making calls from a landline is usually a cheap and easy option.

14 June 2007, 8:08

Samsung Z400

Digital Living The Z400 combines Samsung's trusty slider design with 3G connectivity and video calling. It's the 3G phone of champions, according to an ad campaign featuring players from Chelsea FC, but is it the 3G phone for you?

25 August 2006, 10:58

Wi-Fi is the answer to a home without wires

Digital Living It's a noble calling. Getting a wireless network at home seems ridiculous until you do it. Once you've done it, it seems ridiculous that you once had to connect your laptop to a cable to make it work, as though it were a puppy that needed to be...

4 March 2006, 7:00

How do I set a phone to only call certain numbers?

Digital Living Alternatively, you can stop the phone from calling out altogether by setting it to bar all outgoing calls. Can you recommend a simple mobile phone for my son who has learning disabilities? We want to provide him with a phone, but wish to control...

8 November 2006, 13:52

Only network electronically

Digital Living These people have to be able to stay out schmoozing until midnight and get away with calling it work. Social networking is one of the building blocks of the Web 2.0 dream: bringing together like-minded people online to create a community of...

31 October 2006, 10:25

The new podcasting tools

Digital Living Ives also told us that the current success rate for transcription is roughly 75 to 80 percent, which is by no means perfect, but is accurate enough to let you find several needles in the growing haystack of the podcastosphere, or whatever silly...

Tags: stations, searching, mix, talk

9 May 2005, 14:48

18 things to do with your old technology

Digital Living You can find the nearest recycling centre using sites such as Recycle Now and Recycle More, or by calling up your local council. You might not know it, but you've got something very special in your home that could be worth money and could even save...

Tags: arrange, sends, waste, recycle

16 November 2007, 8:05

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living What I like about BT's overall vision is that for many ordinary consumers they may be the kind of company best positioned to handle the knottiest problem of the digital home, which isn't yet video calling: it's getting the wretched network to work...

26 June 2006, 16:33