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How do I set up my TV properly?

Digital Living If this is set beyond 50 per cent it will not only make the picture look washed out, but it could shorten the life of the TV -- backlights only last a certain amount of time before burning out for good.

22 August 2007, 17:32

Get the most out of Wi-Fi

Digital Living Multiple extenders can be used, with each one boosting the range of your network by approximately 50 per cent. Recent polls suggest that less than 50 per cent of companies have appropriate security in place, and this number is even higher among the...

4 May 2006, 16:30

Is it worth bringing a PS3 back from the US?

Digital Living While this seems much cheaper on the surface than the £425 we have to shell out in the UK, bear in mind you'll have to pay VAT at 17.5 per cent, which adds £45 to the 20GB version and £53 to the 60GB, for totals of £300 and £358.

21 March 2007, 16:39

Does ReadyBoost really work?

Digital Living On the first run, without ReadyBoost, the laptop scored 2,240 in PCMark 2005, and on the second run with a 2GB USB key and ReadyBoost enabled, it achieved 2,414 -- an eight per cent increase in performance.

7 March 2007, 16:51

Can camcorders take great stills?

Digital Living If you're planning to display the pictures at least 50 per cent smaller than the original size, resolution doesn't matter much. I'm new to the world of hard disk camcorders and I want to get one that can also take a good photo.

Tags: megapixel, colour, noise, frame

21 November 2007, 14:15

Consumers frustrated by online music catalogues

Digital Living Even if you pay monthly subscription fees to every online music service that offers a subscription, you'll still be missing out on a massive percentage of the world's officially released music -- possibly more than 50 per cent of what could be...

16 June 2005, 12:44

Top five ways MP3 has changed the world

Digital Living I'd be willing to wager that at least 30 per cent of broadband upgrades from 1999 to 2004 were due in part, or wholly, to MP3s. About ten years ago, a guy named Jürgen Zeller sent out an email to the rest of the team at Fraunhofer Gesellshaft...

17 August 2005, 15:30

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living BT claims that 40 per cent of its broadband customers want wireless connectivity, and as anyone who's set up a network at home knows it can be a right pain getting Wi-Fi to do its thing. The company has launched its biggest marketing campaign since...

26 June 2006, 17:33

Daddy, what was it like to be clueless?

Digital Living What I liked about it was that I recognised in it the daft building blocks of the modern digital day -- the Nigerian spam, emails sent when drunk and the fact that, as one of his characters points out, "documents are 34 per cent more boring when...

10 June 2006, 9:00

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living And a balanced home cinema system is one where you spend ten per cent of the hardware cost on cabling. What does it mean to live a digital life? I know I spend an enormous amount of time quarelling with computing and electronics equipment.

16 May 2005, 12:40

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living We've looked into this and over 97 per cent of all MiniDV camcorder footage ends up in a shoebox. One of my favourites was showing off what it claimed was the world's cheapest camcorder. Their English PR guy tapped me on the shoulder as I was...

17 January 2006, 11:17