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Is my PC ready for Windows Vista?

Digital Living A modern processor (at least 800MHz)• 512MB of system memory (RAM)• A graphics card that is DirectX 9 compatible You'll need a card with at least 64MB of memory to support a single monitor displaying at a resolution of 1,280x1,024 pixels• 40GB of...

20 July 2006, 15:21

A mobile phone to take me home?

Digital Living Before you can attach your phone to a Bluetooth receiver, you need to buy a memory card that's compatible with your phone and comes preloaded with sat-nav software and a map of your country. If this sounds like a lot of work, don't panic -- most...

28 April 2006, 11:49

Get more from Sony's PSP

Digital Living As we said in our review, Memory Stick Duo media isn't cheap, with a 512MB card costing around £60 and a 1GB card £100. Sony's beautiful screen shows off movies in the console's proprietary UMD format perfectly, but playing your own video, music...

1 September 2005, 15:54

Which camera for family snapshots?

Digital Living This is the most common format, so the cards tend to be cheaper and more widely available than alternative formats such as xD Picture Card and Memory Stick (for more on memory cards, see our Digital Camera Buying Guide).

3 August 2006, 12:47

How do I back up my mobile phone contacts, text messages and pictures?

Digital Living The other option is to transfer all your photos on to your phone's memory card, if it has one, and then take the memory card out and put it into a card reader that connects to your PC. There are several third-party SIM back-up programs that let you...

8 August 2007, 17:50

What's the best LCD TV for under £1,000?

Digital Living USB and memory card slots for viewing digital photos have become more common, and some will let you watch video. Samsung's LE32N73 offers a bright, colourful performance with a stunning design and impressive range of features that includes USB...

24 January 2007, 11:40

How can I upgrade my laptop?

Digital Living 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 luckily this will also likely...

2 June 2006, 16:55

What HD disc player should I buy? review

Digital Living The closest thing is a Samsung DVD-HD860, which will do everything you need except read files from memory cards and play HD DVD or Blu-ray. Some DVD players and media streamers can accept photos and MP3s from USB memory cards, but if I'm honest, it...

Tags: generation, hd, dvds, samsung

16 November 2007, 12:52

One gadget that does it all

Digital Living Plenty of memory. HP iPAQ hx4700: almost perfect but no memory 2. Orange M2000: I have the SPV C500, so this seems a logical choice, but no memory and the screen quality is average My principle need is to transfer photos from my camera's SD card...

15 November 2005, 16:37

Build the ultimate quiet PC

Digital Living In picture 6 we've attached tiny heatsinks (included in the Zalman package) to the card's memory chips. The graphics card is a major contributor of PC noise -- arguably more so than the CPU. If you don't have the funds to splash out on a new...

7 September 2006, 16:49

Can I buy a cheap video-editing PC?

Digital Living You'll also need to get as much RAM (Random Access Memory) as you can afford -- at least 1GB is recommended. The former is an additional card that fits into a PCI slot and provides a port for capturing video from a camcorder or VHS recorder.

10 August 2006, 11:55

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living He sighed, and said, "We call it 'the landfill memory mountain'. Steve turned over his second card. Steve turned the card around. Steve smiled and held up the other card and said, "When you digitised that footage, did you store it on an offline...

17 January 2006, 11:17

Is it worth bringing a PS3 back from the US?

Digital Living The PlayStation 3 (read our full review here) comes in two versions in the US -- the basic version with a 20GB hard drive and the high-end version with a 60GB hard drive, Wi-Fi and a multiformat memory card reader.

21 March 2007, 16:39

Camcorder or digiscope for bird photography?

Digital Living Neither camcorder enables you to record photographs onto a memory card. I notice that several budget-priced camcorders offer 30x optical magnification. Does this level give a good performance for bird photography?

1 November 2006, 14:01

Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Digital Living You could be the best photographer in the world, but if your model is uptight, nervous or downright scared, then you'll end up with a memory card full of dud photos. The idiot So, this is you, a clueless fool with a basic digital camera.

10 November 2006, 15:23