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How to get music onto your Walkman phone

Digital Living To check your hard drive capacity on a Windows PC, click on the Windows Start menu and select My Computer; right click on your hard drive (usually labelled C:) and select Properties from the drop-down menu.

31 August 2006, 16:18

Wi-Fi horrors

Digital Living Suddenly overcome with fear, you check your computers to see if your wireless connection is working. So you buy a wireless laptop, install a wireless router and, after you check that it all works, give yourself a pat on the back.

9 May 2005, 14:49

Speed up your bootup time

Digital Living So, before you do anything else, run a thorough virus check, then create a safe place to go back to using Windows XP's System Restore utility. If so, all you have to do is clear its check box to remove the appropriate Registry command line or...

2 August 2006, 15:56

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living Check. Check. Check. Check. The company has launched its biggest marketing campaign since it started pushing broadband heavily in 2002. The new hard sell is the Total Broadband Experience -- a magic white box that provides a fast broadband...

26 June 2006, 16:33

eBay nightmares

Digital Living Check the feedback. Check the returns policy. However, if you paid by credit card, check with your bank; some cards offer 100 percent guarantees against online fraud. Check your insurance. If the item is a camcorder, a laptop, or a video console...

7 May 2005, 15:43

Knowing your RSS from your elbow

Digital Living In the vegetable aisle I'll freestyle -- perhaps grab a single grape, four kilos of bananas and a kiwi fruit -- and then roll them up into a big 'ole ball (or 'mash-up') and dribble it to the check-out.

8 April 2006, 8:00

Microsoft's Media Center mansion

Digital Living There were some fun toys: a VKB Bluetooth Virtual in the kitchen, which allows you to type on a flour-covered surface, to check a recipe online, say (we've all done it, right? People are proud of their new plasmas, their new iPods, their new Sony...

2 June 2005, 17:10

Transfer your VHS tapes to DVD

Digital Living You won't find this in the documentation, but make sure you check the VCR Input box -- otherwise, the preview image may be severely distorted. In most cases, you should also check the Capture Preview box, but you may need to clear this box if you...

8 August 2006, 15:54

Transfer your data from PC to Mac

Digital Living Be sure to check the Desktop Folder and all the My folders -- My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Videos -- because this is likely where you store most files. Also check the apps you use regularly to ensure you catch files that may reside...

9 May 2005, 14:51

Google's word processor does the write thing

Digital Living This week I got the chance to check out Writely, the online word-processing application that was purchased by Google earlier this year. The one thing you want to do when you've written a column is check how many words you've written.

14 August 2006, 12:07

Swedish flirts find a new home

Digital Living You can check out the recently opened UK version to get a feel for it, and it's also got sites in Denmark, Germany and Holland. It's full of pictures of desperately sultry teenagers, and plunges you instantly into a breathy world of online chit...

23 September 2006, 8:00

Sony PSP: Accessorise This

Digital Living If you want to entertain yourself in the layby of the M1 after a hard drive, you should check out this device, which sticks the console to your window via the magical power of the suction cup. But before you rush out to buy the few that are sold...

6 September 2005, 7:45

Smarter commuting, the cyborg way

Digital Living If you're commute's too short to swallow a whole space opera, and last night's TV is perhaps more to your taste, then check out the Archos AV700. Check out the excellent Treonauts Web site and you'll see exactly what I mean.

19 October 2005, 12:06

Windows XP SP2 nightmares

Digital Living Clear the check boxes in the Alert Settings dialogue marked Firewall and Virus Protection (and Automatic Updates if you want to drop alerts for that). Check with the maker of your antivirus and firewall packages by heading to its Web site and...

13 May 2005, 15:27

CES 2007

Digital Living Check out our show coverage to get a first look at the hot gadgets heading your way over the next 12 months. CES is the world's biggest consumer electronics trade show and the number-one event in the tech year.

Tags: consumer, tech, event, gadgets

28 December 2006, 16:10