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The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living Here's some principles that govern how digital stuff should flow in our lives. When they work together seamlessly, the digital part of our lives will explode. However, for any of them to really cause major changes to the way digital content flows...

Tags: jobs, care, flow, address book

20 May 2006, 8:58

Daddy, what was it like to be clueless?

Digital Living The book tells the story of a group of techies working on a terrible game development project, and it features much that is familiar to Coupland's fans: obsessive triviality, the wit of clever, geeky tech types and a total immersion into the...

10 June 2006, 9:00

Why is my best TV in my shed?

Digital Living Now, we take the technology at a discount, and we're more concerned about the way it fits into our environment, our living room, our lives. We want technology to be everywhere, for our convenience, and invisible, so we can ignore it and get on with...

6 May 2006, 8:00

Microsoft's Media Center mansion

Digital Living The PC has been at the heart of the transformation of our digital lives in the workplace. We know that setting up a Media Center PC should be an exciting, fun way to simplify our digital lives, but the fact is that getting a UK cable box to talk to...

2 June 2005, 18:10

Taking your television for a drive

Digital Living In order to loathe and detest it with style and insight, however, I find it necessary to keep up with the latest ways in which the great Satan enters our lives, such as Telewest's new TV Drive, which I've been trying out.

25 July 2006, 17:11

Apple Newton vs Samsung Q1 UMPC

Digital Living 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 role, but the vast majority of them fall into the same category as the Hindenburg: miserable...

27 July 2006, 17:39

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living BT's move is in fact the latest in a fascinating game of marketing Go, in which technology vendors keep trying to surround each other, sneaking warily around our coffee tables in the quest to dominate our digital home lives.

26 June 2006, 17:33

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living His carefully blank expression, contrasted with the wry amusement of the crowd, captured the drama of the huge struggle that's going on between the Microsofts and the Intels, and the Apples and the Sonys, for control of our digital lives.

4 January 2006, 11:43

The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living Step one: "Mobile phones clutter our lives with unnecessary features. Step seven: "Replace your MP3 player with the dulcet tones of your own voice and bring music into other people's lives. My house is a shrine to the consumer electronics gods and...

14 June 2007, 17:23

Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living We often explore music as we do art and many other forms of self-expression in the early part of our lives, when our place in the world is unsure, and we are growing tremendously and experimenting with different ways of being ourselves.

16 September 2006, 8:00

Swedish flirts find a new home

Digital Living If you're interested in the evolution of the metaverse -- that grand word that attempts to describe the growing incarnation of our lives and desires into imaginary three-dimensional worlds -- it's fascinating to imagine what would happen if other...

23 September 2006, 9:00

Best Firefox extensions

Digital Living Grocery List Generator More a standalone application that lives inside Firefox, this full-featured extension lets you add recipes and ingredients to a customisable database, then create shopping lists based on what's next for dinner.

24 August 2006, 12:00

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living Comfortably dismissing them as games for children, we don't realise how much of our lives are now digital, virtual and imaginary, taking place online in worlds our grandparents would have found as peculiar and improbable as the fantasy robots of...

10 July 2006, 12:16

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living The digital -- cameras, personal video recorders, mobile phones, laptops, games, the whole shiny silver mountain of personal tech -- has huge potential to change our lives for the better. What does it mean to live a digital life?

16 May 2005, 12:40

Don't cut the technology cord

Digital Living Can you imagine being constantly unable to find your fridge? Picture it. You're in the living room. You think, "I'd quite like a gin and tonic.ice, a slice, a heavy glass. You go into the kitchen. Cutting board.

25 March 2006, 8:00