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Wi-Fi horrors

Digital Living If your router is located in a corner of your house, much of that radiation pattern will fall outside your home. The next day you discover that your wireless network covers only half your house and that both your living room and your kitchen are...

9 May 2005, 14:49

Taking your television for a drive

Digital Living Yours may be different, but our signal always seemed to hang inexplicably or get the jitters at times of maximum dramatic impact (no climatic penalty shoot-out or live Big Brother eviction was safe from blackout in our house)

25 July 2006, 16:11

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living Although nothing like as easy on the eye as Apple's white, UFO-shaped AirPort Wi-Fi hub, it's a good deal more house-trained than the average Belkin router. You can have up to six handsets in the house and be making up to three calls simultaneously...

26 June 2006, 16:33

Why is my best TV in my shed?

Digital Living Ours is in the shed because I think that TV is crack cocaine for the brain and I haven't made the psychological journey that will allow me to feel comfortable with having two TVs in the house. This is why Media Center is such a disaster for...

6 May 2006, 7:00

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living When I was ten years old I grew up in a house that had perhaps 500 paperback books, 50 records, a television set that had three channels and a radio that received a handful of stations. Their house has got the resources of a decent university...

26 October 2005, 11:48

Is a 46-inch TV too big for my living room?

Digital Living In my new house the screen is too small, as the viewing distance is somewhere around 5m. I am currently looking to replace my old Toshiba 32-inch CRT TV. For such a viewing distance, is a) a 40-inch screen size okay and b) would 46 inches be too...

15 November 2006, 16:02

The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living My house is a shrine to the consumer electronics gods and my life is spent ritually worshipping my electronic devices. Hello, my name is Andrew Lim and I'm a gadget addict. My problem is I'm never satisfied.

14 June 2007, 16:23

How to stream MP3s wirelessly

Digital Living Nothing too fancy -- I just want to stream some MP3s around the house. Can you recommend a good wireless streaming device? This is a complicated, emerging area because everyone from computer hardware to consumer electronics companies to service...

9 May 2005, 14:48

Where can I buy an iPhone?

Digital Living You can get one at an Apple, Carphone Warehouse or O2 high street store, or if you'd rather not leave the house, you can also order it online: I'm really looking forward to the UK launch of the iPhone, particularly since I love browsing the Web on...

Tags: apple, cards, store, iphone

6 November 2007, 8:20

Don't let your children catch DVD

Digital Living After seeing this DVD once, for ten minutes, at the house of a friend, his mood changed. If you're a parent, you need to understand a new threat to your children's health: the possibility of infection with the DVD virus.

24 April 2006, 11:09

Knowing your RSS from your elbow

Digital Living It's as though all the blogs or Web sites you care about decided to come round to your house, instead of you having to schlepp your way around to theirs. I know something you don't. I know where to get the latest high-res scanned images of Isaac...

8 April 2006, 8:00

Phones for sport

Digital Living If you're not willing to remortgage your house or sell your car then fortunately there are alternatives. I'm a really keen runner and go for a run at least twice a week. I'm looking to upgrade my phone in the next few months and want to invest in a...

6 July 2006, 13:40

Bringing it all back home

Digital Living I've also been toying with the idea of getting a Sky dish, but can't bear it because it feels too vulgar to stick one on my house (sorry Rupert). How big is your bill for digital services at home? If you add up things like satellite television...

1 July 2006, 8:00

How to build your own home theatre

Digital Living Most lights for your house don't even take CRI into consideration, so just grabbing a lamp and sticking it behind your TV won't help much -- in fact, you won't even see a CRI rating on most bulbs. Watching a large TV in a dark room can cause a lot...

Tags: depth, paint, wall, benefits

27 June 2005, 11:18

What camcorder for filming kids in low light?

Digital Living Typical domestic room lighting is enough for many camcorders, but you could increase the wattage of the bulbs in your house. I need a camcorder to take video of my 1-year-old to send to my parents in Australia.

14 September 2006, 15:02