eyes

Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living Suddenly both our avatars are standing up, holding hands and gazing into each other's eyes. My companion yawns, flicking her hair out of her eyes. My Yahoo Messenger avatar wears a suit and a tie, as befits my sombre work persona, but you can...

8 August 2006, 16:33

How to build your own home theatre

Digital Living Eventually, as the lights go almost out (the optimal viewing environment), your eyes can no longer separate the picture on your screen from the wall behind it, but the two objects aren't the same distance away.

Tags: depth, paint, wall, benefits

27 June 2005, 11:18

How can I take pictures without flash?

Digital Living My only problem is that every time I take a picture requiring the flash, my four-year-old has his eyes closed (and I mean every time). In practice, sticking a flashing light in your son's face gives him a chance to close his eyes before you take...

13 December 2006, 11:58

Acer Aspire 9800

Digital Living Acer's Aspire 9800 is the second monster laptop to come crashing through the undergrowth, delighting the eyes with its 20-inch screen, but destroying the thighs with its 7.8kg weight. It's certainly big, but is it clever?

11 August 2006, 15:06

Philips 32PF9830

Digital Living It's supposed to relax the eyes and boost the contrast, but is the 32PF9830 tripping the light fantastic or falling over its feet? Philips' 32-inch LCD lights up your living room with a coloured glow that matches the image on the screen.

17 March 2006, 10:42

Better digital photos

Digital Living In theory, using red-eye reduction mode makes sense -- shine a bright light in the subject's eyes before exposure to constrict the iris, thereby reducing the chance of reflected red-eye. Built-in camera flashes are convenient, but they can produce...

3 August 2006, 15:09

How to perfect your pictures

Digital Living Image-editing software lets you take your raw snapshots and crop the edges, tweak the brightness and contrast, fix red eyes, and more. Back in 1988, Elton John sang the words, "You can't argue with the image.

9 May 2005, 14:51

Windows shortcuts

Digital Living Hit Alt + that letter to open that particular menu; you can either use the arrow keys to move around within that window, or keep your eyes peeled for more underlined letters to use more Alt+ key combinations.

9 May 2005, 14:49

Radio radio: it's a sound sensation

Digital Living And if the teenager next to you stands on your foot, you'll feel quite happy gouging out his eyes and feeding them to him. If you love radio, it's time to get hip to podcasting. I know you're busy, but you can't put it off any longer.

13 March 2006, 14:20

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living This is fine if you're making mix tapes in your bedroom, but when you're driving around town you need to keep your eyes on the road.track was so simple: you plugged in a cartridge and off it went. We hate format wars.

23 July 2007, 9:49

Mac OS X vs Windows Vista

Digital Living We find our protagonists standing toe-to-toe, fury burning in their eyes; the maiden having fainted in terror. What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Why is belly button fluff always blue? These questions have led to wars, famine and...

27 April 2007, 15:34

Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Digital Living For most shots, a crisp focus on the eyes is absolutely essential, so you should check this first. Decide how much of the model you want to be in focus -- for portraits it's often appealing to drop focus off quite early, so that the model's face is...

10 November 2006, 15:23

Become a camcorder pro

Digital Living To make sure the camera is picking up colours as your eyes see them, you have to focus on a white card and let the camcorder know this is true white. Legend has it that a 21-year-old, unknown filmmaker called Steven

29 June 2006, 16:02

Calibrate your LCD television

Digital Living If you notice a loss of shadow detail -- for example, when people's eyes disappear into the depths under their brows -- then you've set the brightness too low. The trouble is, as with most televisions, LCDs are preconfigured to look good on the...

9 May 2005, 15:14

Consumers frustrated by online music catalogues

Digital Living The $150,000 questionLet's suppose you were to subscribe to four music 'to go' services -- eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody, and Yahoo -- for a combined total of $46.92 per month, or $563.04 per year, which, to my eyes, looks to be approximately what an...

16 June 2005, 11:44