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Apple iPod Hi-Fi

Digital Living Apple's big white box combines two speakers, a sub, an amplifier, an iPod dock and a remote control. It turns your portable music player into a room-filling home stereo, but is it over priced, over hyped, overly heavy and over here?

31 March 2006, 15:43

Wi-Fi is the answer to a home without wires

Digital Living Then you make sure your laptop has support for Wi-Fi. I remember the pride with which I finally got my own set up, the first kid on my block to go Wi-Fi at home. Depending on where you are on the adoption curve, having a wireless network at home...

4 March 2006, 7:00

Get the most out of Wi-Fi

Digital Living Connect your home PCs and peripherals In case you've been hiding under a rock for the past few years, Wi-Fi, short for wireless fidelity, is a term used to describe wireless local area networks (WLANs) that confirm to a particular set of standards...

4 May 2006, 15:30

Monitor your home with a Wi-Fi Webcam

Digital Living While 802.11b has been the most popular Wi-Fi standard, a new, even faster version of Wi-Fi -- 802.11g -- recently hit the streets. As more homes add Wi-Fi networks, these 'IP cams' are fast becoming handy add-on devices for average consumers.

9 May 2005, 16:55

Wi-Fi horrors

Digital Living The package the router came in claims a range of up to 80m, but your Wi-Fi signal barely seems to penetrate into the next room. And the better your Wi-Fi education, the more likely you'll keep spooks and spies out of your network.

9 May 2005, 14:49

Handhelds with big screens

Digital Living I need a reliable PDA with a large screen and Wi-Fi. They feature both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and have VGA screens, so you get a nice, sharp display. I also want to be able to use it with an accessory keyboard.

9 May 2005, 15:52

How can I convert my vinyl collection to MP3?

Digital Living Some MP3 players, such as the Samsung YH-820 and the mobiBLU DAH-1900, will let you run a line straight from the headphone socket of your hi-fi amplifier into the MP3 player itself. For the best result, you could eliminate the hi-fi amplifier stage...

6 April 2006, 11:28

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

Digital Living At the other end of the scale, Shure's flagship SE530s -- also sound-isolating earphones -- feature three separate micro speaker drivers -- that's more than some hi-fi speaker systems! Denon's AH-D5000 headphones are constructed from a Japanese...

Tags: noise, compressed, speaker, pair

17 October 2007, 14:30

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living The centrepiece of this digital fashion show was the BT Home Hub, a broadband router with integrated Wi-Fi, as well as the ability to support a whole range of integrated services, such as Web-based phone calls, video phones, home security systems...

26 June 2006, 16:33

Extend your mobile phone's battery life

Digital Living Watch out for GPRS, 3G and Wi-FiOther features that drain power but aren't featured on every phone are 3G connectivity and Wi-Fi adaptors. You should be able to turn off a Wi-Fi adaptor and switch from 3G to GSM in the 'Connectivity' section of...

14 June 2006, 14:50

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living Other features include GPRS and 3G connectivity, and while it doesn't have a xenon flash, it does come with a built-in Wi-Fi adaptor, which means you can browse the Web at Wi-Fi hotspots and send photos to your computer in mere seconds.

28 November 2006, 16:06

Apple iPod touch

Digital Living The Wi-Fi iPod is here, and it's got a touchscreen. Apple has finally gone and done it. How impressed are you?

7 September 2007, 10:00

PQI mPack P600

Digital Living It looks like a cross between a sci-fi prop and a make-up compact, but it's actually a portable video player with a vibrant, widescreen LCD and an extensive range of supported formats. A-list celeb or B-movie pleb, you decide.

10 February 2006, 10:47

How do I listen to the music on my PC in another room?

Digital Living Once you've connected the audio-out ports on the streamer to the audio-in ports on your hi-fi, it plays the songs from your PC over your home Wi-Fi network. To use a streamer, you'll need to have a Wi-Fi router set up already and install the...

21 February 2007, 16:44

O2 XDA Orbit

Digital Living This Pocket PC has everything, including built-in sat-nav, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a camera and even a mobile phone. Could it be the ultimate all-in-one device?

19 January 2007, 13:41