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Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living There's a painful line in Cameron Crowe's excellent film about rock and roll, Almost Famous, in which legendary rock journalist Lester Bangs, the film's spiritual guru, talks about the death of authenticity in music.

16 September 2006, 7:00

Lost on the Underground with my PVR

Digital Living My commute on the Northern Line takes about an hour, so a 45- or 30-minute television programme can be enjoyed without arriving at my destination and standing on tenterhooks by the ticket machine to watch the last explosive scenes of a blockbuster.

26 September 2005, 9:38

Smarter commuting, the cyborg way

Digital Living London Transport's excellent SMS update service sends me two messages every morning at 6 a.m.so that I know that the Northern Line is broken and I'll have to kayak into work again. The keyboards of both the BlackBerry and the Palm are also...

19 October 2005, 12:06

Do I need a TV with 1080i or 1080p?

Digital Living If a flat-screen TV is touted as 1080i, it really just means it's a 720p TV that converts a 1,080 line interlaced signal into a progressively scanned 720 line one. I want to buy a new TV and I've heard a lot about 1080i and 1080p -- which sort of...

6 June 2007, 11:14

Windows shortcuts

Digital Living From here, you can launch a command-line window by typing cmd, but you can do a lot more. Ctrl+up or down arrows let you scroll an entire paragraph at a time, instead of one line, and Ctrl+Shift+up or down arrow will select an entire paragraph.

9 May 2005, 14:49

Google's word processor does the write thing

Digital Living I've been writing professionally for 20 years and here's what I do with Word: I set the font to Times Roman, 12 point, and I set the line spacing to 1.5, and I save files and print them. In writing this column in Writely, I've chosen my font...

14 August 2006, 12:07

Speed up your bootup time

Digital Living TipAlso, check the Image Path column within Autoruns for any line that starts with 'File not found'. Look for anything listed on a RUN= or LOAD= line. If so, all you have to do is clear its check box to remove the appropriate Registry command line...

2 August 2006, 15:56

Samsung G800

Digital Living The Samsung G800 blurs the line, but does this handset have enough megapixel might to replace your dedicated snapper? Is it a phone? Is it a camera?

Tags: samsung, megapixel, dedicated, line

30 November 2007, 10:50

Your PC needs a firewall

Digital Living Another extremely important line of defence is a firewall. The bottom line is, having the free version of a firewall program and the added line of defence it provides is much better than having nothing at all.

12 July 2005, 13:24

Sharp 902

Digital Living The Sharp 902 is the flagship of Vodafone's 3G line-up, and it's pretty cool. It has a great camera, a stunning screen, Bluetooth, a host of software and the ability to synchronise with a PC. Can you resist the Sharp 902?

Tags: camera, line, vodafone, flagship

15 May 2005, 12:31

mobiBLU DAH-1900

Digital Living Does its incredible stamina make up for its inability to cross the finish line with panache? mobiBLU's DAH-1900 MP3 player combines an extraordinary 153 hours of battery life with very ordinary styling, features and sound.

7 April 2006, 17:28

How do I set up my TV properly?

Digital Living The issue here is that when a TV leaves the manufacturing line, the settings are configured to make the screen look its best in the shop. I've noticed that the picture on my new LCD TV looked significantly better in the shop than it does now I've...

22 August 2007, 16:32

Which UK music download store is the best?

Digital Living An album from the iTunes Store will set you back £7.99, which is in line with online competitors. I'm trying to decide which MP3 player to buy based on which online music store is going to work best for me.

2 May 2007, 16:12

How can I convert my vinyl collection to MP3?

Digital Living Some MP3 players, such as the Samsung YH-820 and the mobiBLU DAH-1900, will let you run a line straight from the headphone socket of your hi-fi amplifier into the MP3 player itself. Hello, call me a luddite, call me an Antiques Roadshow viewer, but...

6 April 2006, 11:28

Apple Newton vs Samsung Q1 UMPC

Digital Living This was a later revision of the MessagePad line and represents the Newton at its strongest. We've all dreamed of owning a portable device that can organise, entertain and enrich our lives. Over the years, we've seen dozens of contenders for this...

27 July 2006, 16:39