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CNET.co.uk has 9 stories on remote control
How do I listen to the music on my PC in another room?
Digital Living This is a basic music streamer that, unlike rivals, has no screen, and it's really only practical to control it using your computer rather than running it separately using a remote control. Audiophiles can turn to the Sonos Digital Music System...
21 February 2007, 16:44
Tech support for your parents
Digital Living Option 1: Use Microsoft's own remote control console. One way to give yourself an upper hand is to use remote control software to see what's going on with your parents' computer when you're on the phone to them.
11 May 2005, 12:43
Apple iPod Hi-Fi
Digital Living Apple's big white box combines two speakers, a sub, an amplifier, an iPod dock and a remote control. It turns your portable music player into a room-filling home stereo, but is it over priced, over hyped, overly heavy and over here?
31 March 2006, 16:43
Spam TV, You TV, Global TV
Digital Living Yet if the screen experience is shrinking all around us, the technology is putting the remote control firmly in our hands. PVRs, because for a fraction of the cost of Sky+ I can get complete control over my TV viewing.
4 October 2005, 17:57
How do I access my PC while away from home?
Digital Living This lets you control your home PC via the Internet using a computer in another location. The most obvious method is to use Windows XP Professional Edition's built-in Remote Desktop feature. You can enable this by right-clicking the My Computer...
27 September 2006, 17:08
Home cinema: understanding the risks
Digital Living A remote control that glows in the dark. Your children will weep as you mess about with miles of cabling and they discover that watching CBeebies involves hand-cranking a generator and pumping a 17-digit code into your universal remote.
2 March 2006, 16:29
CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?
Digital Living I've already checked out a small remote-control helicopter, a pair of fairly convincing 3D goggles, and a device that boosts your mobile phone signal at home, so it's not all bad. The battleground is the living room, and it's all about setting the...
4 January 2006, 11:43
Smarter commuting, the cyborg way
Digital Living The nice thing about this is you won't have to share the remote control or negotiate programming choices with anyone else but you: TV on the move is the ultimate You TV. The icing on the cake is remote instant messaging.
19 October 2005, 13:06
Format wars: The tech that should have won
Digital Living Everything was controlled with touch-sensitive displays and a funky LCD remote control with virtual buttons. Even better, because it was a disc, not a tape, accessing scenes was as easy as pressing a button on the remote.
23 July 2007, 10:49


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