elements

How to clean your digital SLR camera

Digital Living Cleaning, however, should always be carried out somewhere away from the elements. You open your camera to the elements every time you change the lens, and dust or grit can sidle in there to sabotage your images.

17 September 2007, 10:55

How to perfect your pictures

Digital Living An image editor (such as Adobe Photoshop Elements) Adobe Photoshop Elements and most other editing packages have a tool that can duplicate nearby background information over the item you want to remove.

9 May 2005, 14:51

Best Firefox extensions

Digital Living ScrapBook for Firefox If you want a quick way to save Web pages -- or even elements of a page, like a recipe or definition -- ScrapBook is all you need. With the Adblock extension, you can pick and choose which content elements of the page will...

24 August 2006, 11:00

What's the best TV for watching sport?

Digital Living Movement, especially unpredictable sports action, is one of the most difficult picture elements to render successfully. My boyfriend is driving me insane with his constant nagging about researching TVs.

6 December 2006, 14:32

The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living We've now got everything we need to really make these three elements work together. Here's some principles that govern how digital stuff should flow in our lives. The first is that when something goes wrong all the stuff we care about has already...

Tags: jobs, care, flow, address book

20 May 2006, 7:58

Do Aibos dream of electric sheep?

Digital Living The only soft elements are his floppy rubber ears and tail, which have a rather eerie rubber fetish quality. I took home my first robot on Saturday, in order to conduct a small experiment: I wanted to introduce it to my two-year-old son and see...

12 October 2005, 9:10

What's the best type of image stabilisation?

Digital Living Some dSLRs also move the sensor, while some dSLR lenses move elements of the lens to steady the image as light passes into the camera. I'm looking to upgrade my digital camera for a new one, but this time around I want something that will take less...

25 July 2007, 12:16

Which 40-inch Sony LCD TV should I buy?

Digital Living This is important, because it's these signals that require the most processing to remove compression artefacts and other undesirable picture elements. I'm a bit confused by the difference between the Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000 and the KDL-40X2000.

2 August 2007, 9:20

Can compact cameras zoom during video?

Digital Living When you zoom, the elements in the frame -- such as a person in front of a wall -- get bigger but do not change in relation to each other. 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

Leaving Las Vegas

Digital Living Amazing products, not so much, and it may have had many of the traditional elements of a conference keynote -- lame celebrity endorsements, a spoof product and live demos -- but the feeling and energy of this event were really very different from...

11 January 2006, 15:45

Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living IMVU doesn't charge for its basic service: instead it hosts a flourishing online market in clothes, accessories and other elements you can use to make your IMVU avatar look cool, whether you want to look like a male jaguar, a female coyote or a...

8 August 2006, 16:33

Camera phones

Digital Living You'll be able to see the difference on the screen as you make the adjustment, especially when taking pictures of subjects that have light-coloured elements. Most networks charge a monthly fee for photo-messaging services and you can send pics only...

11 May 2005, 11:43