high speed

Google's word processor does the write thing

Digital Living I sit in front of a Web browser on a high-speed connection most of the time, and I already rely on a host of network-dependent applications to get work done: if the network goes down, we all go for coffee.

14 August 2006, 12:07

Build the ultimate quiet PC

Digital Living Having a high-speed PC is every techie's dream. High speed optical (CD or DVD) drives can be one of the biggest contributors of PC noise. You can adjust the fan's spin speed (via the knob on the rear) for even more tranquility.

7 September 2006, 15:49

What is the difference between Intel's Centrino and Core Duo?

Digital Living These chips have twice as much Level 2 cache memory for better performance, have optional high-speed 802.11n Wi-Fi access, plus Intel 64 technology, which lets you take advantage of 64-bit operating systems.

30 May 2007, 10:34

Top five ways MP3 has changed the world

Digital Living Although high-speed Internet connections improve Web surfing considerably, it's not enough for most people to justify spending the extra dough. Aside from rich page design, broadband upgrades also enabled other high-bandwidth applications, such as...

17 August 2005, 14:30

Mac OS X vs Windows Vista

Digital Living PCs were privileged to the first Intel Core and Core 2 Duo CPUs, they've had access to high-speed wireless 802.11n wireless for some time, not to mention high-capacity Blu-ray and HD DVD drives. Is there a God?

27 April 2007, 15:34

One graphics card or two?

Digital Living Many of today's high-end gaming PCs ship with 19-inch TFT screens, the vast majority of which have a native (natural) resolution of 1,280x1,024 pixels. Because the purpose of high-end graphics systems is to help run games at resolutions beyond this...

23 March 2006, 11:40

How do I connect my laptop to my television?

Digital Living PC monitors and TVs have different scan rates (the speed at which the picture is drawn on the display), so the scan convertor is required to change the faster scan rate being spouted by your graphics card to a slower one that is compatible with...

25 October 2006, 15:26

Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Digital Living Set your light meter to match your ISO (in our case 200) and shutter speed (in our case 1/60 second), then attach the light meter cable to your flash units. Only digital SLRs (and some high-end superzooms such as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50) use...

10 November 2006, 15:23

What's the best type of image stabilisation?

Digital Living This would mean that you could, say, employ a slower shutter speed to capture more light without the palpitation of your hands blurring the image. To compensate for the fast shutter speed, the camera automatically increases the light sensitivity...

25 July 2007, 12:16

Camera phones

Digital Living You can store up to 200 high-resolution images on the Nokia 7610, which means you'll have plenty of room for all the pictures you take on a weekend trip, for example. Avoid low light: because they automatically make adjustments to the shutter speed...

11 May 2005, 11:43

Can camcorders take great stills?

Digital Living Video is recorded at a lower resolution than still images, for reasons of speed and memory. Of course, as the stills camera megapixel naysayers constantly remind us, high resolution isn't the be-all and end-all, and your resolution requirements...

Tags: megapixel, colour, noise, frame

21 November 2007, 14:15

Festival photos that rock!

Digital Living We took this photograph of a boy who jumped off the top of a muddy slope and then landed in the mud, skidding down the hill at high speed. If you plan on printing your photographs, you'll want to shoot in a high-resolution format.

17 August 2005, 14:35

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living They also have access to everything else conceivable on the Net, often via high-speed connections. You spend a third of your day working, a third of the day sleeping, and you have another eight hours a day to spend on grooming, shopping, eating and...

26 October 2005, 11:48

Transfer your data from PC to Mac

Digital Living Apple Power Mac G5 dual 2.5GHzCreative pros and power users will salivate over the speed and the design of Apple's top-of-the-line Power Mac G5, but we wish it offered more expansion and better support.

9 May 2005, 14:51

Can I buy a cheap video-editing PC?

Digital Living When video encoding, the computer puts chunks of data into RAM where it can be manipulated with greater speed. What size depends entirely on the amount of video you intend to store, but as a rough guide, 1GB of hard drive space is enough to store...

10 August 2006, 10:55