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The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living Devices of the Hand have also come of age: they keep getting smaller, with better storage, nicer screens and smarter software, and people love their mobile phones. The future belongs to the people who will allow digital content to flow between the...

Tags: jobs, care, flow, address book

20 May 2006, 7:58

Halo 2 starter kit

Digital Living Dual-wielding is obviously the biggest addition to the Halo gameplay formula in Halo 2: with it, you can mix and match up to five weapons (the SMG, magnum, plasma rifle, plasma pistol and needler) in either hand, taking advantage of their peculiar...

13 July 2005, 16:38

Mac OS X vs Windows Vista

Digital Living Baron Vista's loss in the battle for security leads him to challenge Count OS X to hand-to-hand combat. Their task is to win the hand of the fair Maiden Mainstream, played as in olden times by the hairy bloke in the dress.

27 April 2007, 15:34

Do Aibos dream of electric sheep?

Digital Living And the second-hand ones on eBay are significantly cheaper. Robots, on the other hand, are convenient and easy to tidy away. If you're a science-fiction fan, you'll appreciate this had a feeling of occasion about it.

12 October 2005, 9:10

Don't cut the technology cord

Digital Living says someone you love, helpfully, ignoring the very sharp knife in your hand. You quickly add two ice cubes and a healthy shot of tonic water, then pad downstairs and hand over the other gin and tonic to the love of your life who says, "You didn't...

25 March 2006, 8:00

18 things to do with your old technology

Digital Living AmazonAmazon's marketplace also lets you sell second-hand goods at a set price. One of the best ways to get money out of your second-hand technology is to sell it online. You can hand in your old phone to one of Fonebak's partners or send it to a...

Tags: arrange, sends, waste, recycle

16 November 2007, 8:05

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living They know we're paralysed with choice and hang by the edge of the swimming pool, scared to explore their vast virtual warehouses without someone to hold our hand. My ten-year-old nephew now grazes his father's iPod and can hold a huge collection of...

26 October 2005, 11:48

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living I looked at the camcorder in my hand and said, "Ahhh.so this thing doesn't actually have any tape inside it -- you're using some kind of ultra-cheap hard-drive or flash mechanism? He shook my hand and said, "Off course, Michael.

17 January 2006, 11:17

Smarter commuting, the cyborg way

Digital Living The keyboards of both the BlackBerry and the Palm are also excellent for typing brief three-line messages to colleagues, and the Treo 650 and 600 keyboards are designed to enable typing with one hand, so you can even process email when you're...

19 October 2005, 12:06

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living Fortunately, we're on hand to help them achieve mobile nirvana. Meet the upgraders We found four unhappy mobile phone owners who yearned for phones that would do more than make calls. Like many people on the verge of dumping their old phone for a...

28 November 2006, 16:06

Never trust a webbed politician

Digital Living On the other hand, US Senator Ted Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, really does appear to have tied himself in knots when losing his way in a metaphorical explanation of the problem of Net neutrality.

Tags: party, talking, face, comments

13 October 2006, 8:00

Home cinema: understanding the risks

Digital Living Your children will weep as you mess about with miles of cabling and they discover that watching CBeebies involves hand-cranking a generator and pumping a 17-digit code into your universal remote. Home cinema sounds like a great idea when you're...

2 March 2006, 16:29

Should I buy a camera or a camera phone? review

Digital Living The benefit of a camera phone is that you're likely to carry it around with you all the time, so you'll have it on hand for those candid moments when the kids pull funny faces or granddad's dentures drop out into his soup.

Tags: compact, digital camera, lens, cameras

26 November 2007, 8:00

Become a camcorder pro

Digital Living If you have a wheelchair to hand, this is one option. Gulf War action-satire Three Kings, on the other hand, looks warm and bleached out. Spielberg snuck into Universal Studios in 1969 and set in motion one of the greatest careers in cinema history.

29 June 2006, 16:02

How can I convert my vinyl collection to MP3?

Digital Living If not, it might be more economical to simply bite the bullet and blitz iTunes with credit card in hand. Hello, call me a luddite, call me an Antiques Roadshow viewer, but I have a problem. I like my MP3s, but I love my old record collection.

6 April 2006, 11:28