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OLPC XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child)

Digital Living This ultraportable is both a digital lifeline for children in developing countries and a cyber hippy's dream. Is this a revolutionary piece of kit or just a high-tech toy?

Tags: olpc, kit, tech, children

25 January 2008, 11:01

How do I use my mobile phone as a modem for my laptop?

Digital Living I've got a Nokia N73 and somebody told me that I can use it as a modem for my laptop, but I'm not sure how to set this up. Hi Amit,Your friend is right, you can use your Nokia N73 as a modem for your laptop.

28 February 2007, 14:48

How do I connect my laptop to my television?

Digital Living I have DivX movies on my laptop that I want to play through my television. They're karaoke movies, so I really want to get them running through the big television so the whole family can join in. Is there an easy way of connecting the two?

25 October 2006, 16:26

Which laptop bag should I get?

Digital Living I need to get a bag for my 14-inch laptop, so I can take it with me on trips and on holiday. I'd like one that keeps my laptop safe, but it would be great if it looked good too. The most important thing is to keep your laptop safe, dry and...

6 September 2006, 16:58

How can I upgrade my laptop?

Digital Living How can I upgrade my laptop? Whereas you can chop and change literally any component inside a desktop PC, there are only a few parts of a laptop that can be modified by the average user.Upgrading the memory is the easiest place to start, and...

2 June 2006, 16:55

Laptops for people with disabilities

Digital Living I'm a visually impaired student looking for a relatively small laptop (not too small) designed specifically for people with disabilities. If military-grade toughness isn't a requirement, you could try an ordinary laptop with a few mods.

11 April 2007, 14:52

Should USB hard drives use mains electricity?

Digital Living I was thinking of purchasing an external hard drive for my laptop for backup purposes. A self-powered USB storage device typically uses a 2.5-inch laptop hard drive. You should be aware, however, that they can drain your laptop's battery and may...

Tags: hard drive, power, self, usb

25 October 2007, 15:57

MSI Wind

Digital Living We're throwing caution to the wind and saying this could be the best mini laptop yet. Does this super-small, super-cheap laptop blow no good for the Eee PC?

Tags: msi, laptop, eee pc, mini

30 May 2008, 15:26

Wi-Fi is the answer to a home without wires

Digital Living Once you've done it, it seems ridiculous that you once had to connect your laptop to a cable to make it work, as though it were a puppy that needed to be kept on a leash at all times. Then you make sure your laptop has support for Wi-Fi.

4 March 2006, 7:00

Get the most out of Wi-Fi

Digital Living Step 4: Detach the USB flash drive from the first PC or laptop, and connect it to the second PC that you'd like to join your wireless network. If you own a laptop with an Intel Centrino sticker, it's ready, willing and able to go wireless with...

4 May 2006, 16:30

Does ReadyBoost really work?

Digital Living Our first test involved running the PCMark 2005 synthetic benchmark application on our Vista-equipped Dell XPS M1210 laptop, which has 512MB of system memory. On the first run, without ReadyBoost, the laptop scored 2,240 in PCMark 2005, and on the...

7 March 2007, 16:51

Build the ultimate quiet PC

Digital Living For the ultimate quiet CPU, swap your desktop processing unit for a laptop model, as the latter have lower power demands and require less cooling. We've chosen an Asus N4L-VM DH motherboard (£98 from Dabs.com -- picture 1) as it's designed for...

7 September 2006, 16:49

Taking your television for a drive

Digital Living Telewest also provides both our telephone and Internet connectivity, so I can sit in front of my new TV Drive-enabled, flat-screen television accessing cable television content (Telewest TV) while surfing the Web on my widescreen laptop and...

25 July 2006, 17:11

Sony Vaio VGN-UX1XN

Digital Living Sony has shrunk the laptop to Lilliputian proportions, but is it too small to be useable? It's Windows, Jim, but not as we know it.

2 March 2007, 16:36

Asus U1

Digital Living Could this be the perfect laptop? Not only is the sleekest, sexiest model we've seen in months, it runs the spanking new Vista OS. Are you worried Mac fans?

2 February 2007, 14:38