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Sony PSP: Accessorise This

Digital Living Best MovieAlienWhat better film could make it into your palms than Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic? It's the one anime that nearly everyone's seen -- a classic tale of a biker gang captured by the military before experimentation unleashes latent...

6 September 2005, 7:45

Do I need to pay more than £30 for earphones?

Digital Living The bundled, or 'stock', earphones given free with MP3 players -- even expensive models such as the iPod classic or iRiver clix -- are almost always very poor performers. I've seen earphones cost from about £20 to £500.

Tags: noise, compressed, speaker, pair

17 October 2007, 14:30

Halo 2 starter kit

Digital Living The classic pairChoosing a good pair of weapons can be difficult, but a common favourite is the plasma rifle (PR) and the SMG -- the combination is easy to acquire and powerful, although it was weakened slightly in the 1.1 patch.

13 July 2005, 16:38

Do more with your iPod

Digital Living First, click Start > Control Panel > User Accounts (Start > Settings > Control Panel if you use the Classic view). It's easy enough to synchronise both iPods with just one computer, as long as both iPod users are happy accessing the same music...

9 May 2005, 14:49

Which new iPod should I buy?

Digital Living If you've got a massive collection of music, heaps of TV show videos and thousands of photographs, take a look at the iPod classic. I really like all of the new iPod models and definitely want to upgrade to one of them.

26 September 2007, 16:08

Speed up your bootup time

Digital Living On the Start Menu tab, click Classic Start Menu > Customize > Advanced. Does it seem like the more time you spend with your Windows XP installation, the longer your PC takes to pull itself out of bed when booting up?

2 August 2006, 15:56

Can compact cameras zoom during video?

Digital Living We still love the legendary crash zoom that introduced John Wayne in John Ford's classic western Stagecoach (1939). My digital compact camera has video, but it won't zoom during filming -- very annoying!

Tags: shot, compact, tracking, zoom

31 October 2007, 15:28

Taking your television for a drive

Digital Living My Telewest TV allows me to watch a reasonable selection of newish and classic films via pay per view, while my Telewest IP connection lets me order from thousands of online DVD services with much wider selections.

25 July 2006, 16:11

Spam TV, You TV, Global TV

Digital Living If you've got the money to pay for it, you can access more and more content on your own terms: DVD services that give you access to rare or classic films and allow you to watch them when you want to; your own DVD libraries; the Internet TV...

4 October 2005, 16:57

eBay nightmares

Digital Living You thought you were buying a hard-to-find Disney classic on VHS but got a home-burned DVD with the title scrawled in marker. It's not even a zebra. It's hell spawn -- evil incarnate, a thing from a world not our own.

7 May 2005, 15:43

Camera phones

Digital Living Place subjects off-centre: another classic rule is to avoid placing the main subject in the centre of the frame. While camera phones are now pretty ubiquitous, sharing the digital photos from a phone isn't yet the smoothest process.

11 May 2005, 11:43