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Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living Online avatars are a surprisingly powerful way of creating the illusion of contact between selves, and are now colouring and enlivening all sorts of online interactions. I'm sure the proliferation of all these online virtual selves is also creating...

8 August 2006, 16:33

Taking your television for a drive

Digital Living With my Telewest IP connection I can interact with Web sites in countless different ways, writing, messaging, sending emails, chatting live, even creating an avatar and flying around in virtual space.

25 July 2006, 16:11

It doesn't have to cost a bomb to fix your pics

Digital Living In addition, some can perform specific tasks, such as eliminating red-eye, and other snappy functions, such as creating thumbnail pages and screensavers. A good image editor is invaluable. Not only does it come in handy when you have pictures to...

Tags: plug ins, enhance, thumbnail, eye

9 May 2005, 15:12

Never trust a webbed politician

Digital Living The really grand technology gaffes we can leave to the Americans: to one-time presidential candidate Al Gore, whose slightly overblown statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" through his work in Congress became the stuff...

Tags: party, talking, face, comments

13 October 2006, 8:00

Calibrate your LCD television

Digital Living This is the standard colour temperature that most producers use when creating films and TV programmes. You've finally made your move and dumped your bulky tube television for a sleek new flat-panel LCD set.

9 May 2005, 15:14

18 things to do with your old technology

Digital Living Price, condition and seller information are all you get to entice the buyer, so creating the right balance is important. You might not know it, but you've got something very special in your home that could be worth money and could even save the world.

Tags: arrange, sends, waste, recycle

16 November 2007, 8:05

The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living I tried creating some rudimentary ASCII art, but it just wasn't the same as a ganking noobs with a twink on World of Warcraft. My house is a shrine to the consumer electronics gods and my life is spent ritually worshipping my electronic devices.

14 June 2007, 16:23

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, 8:00

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living The camcorder isn't for actually creating images that are viewed at a later date. 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 working the booths in...

17 January 2006, 11:17

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living The next step is for more artists to take a Princely approach, if you will, creating their own online stores that reflect the reasons their fans like them in the first place, as well as give them something to be or stay excited about.

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 14:48

Can compact cameras zoom during video?

Digital Living The camera zooms and tracks at the same time, creating the effect that Roy Scheider's horrified face is filling the frame while the background appears to drop away. My digital compact camera has video, but it won't zoom during filming -- very...

Tags: shot, compact, tracking, zoom

31 October 2007, 15:28

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living An American company called Multiverse is focusing even more directly on giving developers the tools to build their own worlds, and as its name suggests, its founders imagine thousands of different virtual worlds, creating not so much a single...

10 July 2006, 11:16

Get more from Sony's PSP

Digital Living Luckily, a number of home designers have been on the case, creating lots of cool desktops that you can save on your Memory Stick. Sony's beautiful screen shows off movies in the console's proprietary UMD format perfectly, but playing your own video...

1 September 2005, 14:54