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Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living The founders of IMVU thought that people would probably use the application to chat with their existing friends, but have discovered that many users also really like to use IMVU to meet random new people.

8 August 2006, 16:33

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living Every time she uses it to make or take a call, her friends laugh at it -- she's decided it's definitely time to get an upgrade. There are times when all Chris wants to do is take a quick shot of something to share with his friends or keep as a...

28 November 2006, 16:06

The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living Before you use technology to entertain you, ask your friends. After much cajoling, begging and in some cases bribing my friends with peanuts, they eventually agreed to sate my televisual hunger by acting out my favourite film of all time, The Lion...

14 June 2007, 16:23

Don't let your children catch DVD

Digital Living Your children can now be exposed to DVDs at the homes of their friends, in supermarkets and shopping centres -- even public libraries are no longer safe. If you're a parent, you need to understand a new threat to your children's health: the...

24 April 2006, 11:09

The hottest gadgets of 2008 from CES

Digital Living The technology year kicks off in Las Vegas with the International Consumer Electronics Show, or CES to its friends. CNET.co.uk's intrepid reporters will be scouring the show floor and scoping out the hero products to bring you a preview of 2008.

Tags: vegas, las vegas, phones, international

21 December 2007, 10:38

Is there a non-Apple flash player I should buy?

Digital Living My friends tell me to buy an iPod Shuffle, but I don't want to look like every other white earbud clone on the train to work. Are there any other flash MP3 players that look as good as the iPod, but don't force me to join the ranks of the living dead?

17 May 2005, 21:12

Camera phones

Digital Living For sending pictures to friends who don't subscribe to your network, don't have mobile phones capable of accepting images, or -- the horror -- don't have a mobile phone, email is your only option. While camera phones are now pretty ubiquitous...

11 May 2005, 11:43

Looking for an underwater camera

Digital Living It will add a new dimension to your diving and make it easier to share your experiences with non-diving friends. I have been looking at a getting a new camera and since I am a scuba diver, I was tending towards one with an underwater housing.

14 October 2005, 8:28

How do I get music off my iPod?

Digital Living Some unscrupulous fellows might use this technique to raid the bounty of their friends' iPods. Dear CNET,My hard disk is dead. I jumped up to celebrate when England scored against Paraguay and knocked my laptop off the table -- now I can't listen...

Tags: enable, enter, press, hard disk

15 June 2006, 12:12

What's DRM and should I avoid it?

Digital Living More annoyingly still is that CDs don't have DRM -- you're able to rip it, share it illegally, give it to friends, copy it to multiple devices and on to compilation CDs you make. I want to start buying my music from online download stores, but I've...

20 June 2007, 10:49

Will my DAB radio work at 35,000 feet?

Digital Living Your friends are right, you'd be better off with a multiband radio that can receive AM, FM and shortwave broadcasts. Hello my CNET chums, I am wondering if DAB radios work on a plane. I was talking to someone at work and they believe that a...

4 May 2006, 11:42

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living Vista is the next generation of Windows, due out some time this year, and it came across as an ageing groover trying to slip into the clothes of his younger, hipper friends. Ah, the Bill Gates keynote.

6 January 2006, 9:57

One gadget that does it all

Digital Living I went to a wedding last weekend with several friends and we sat and enjoyed a slide show over breakfast in the pub.what a gadget. I'm looking for a gadget that runs as a back-up to my camera and provides more functionality than my phone.

15 November 2005, 16:37

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living I bored my friends with breathless talk of LimeWire, CD burners, compression standards. What does it mean to live a digital life? I know I spend an enormous amount of time quarelling with computing and electronics equipment.

16 May 2005, 11:40

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living I have certain friends I use as pathfinders: people I can ring up or email and say, "What should I be reading/listening to/watching? You spend a third of your day working, a third of the day sleeping, and you have another eight hours a day to spend...

26 October 2005, 11:48