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Monitor your home with a Wi-Fi Webcam

Digital Living To focus the image transmitted by your camera, place a book with a legible title at the range you want to be the focal point, then adjust the focus ring on the camera until the type is sharply displayed on your monitor.

9 May 2005, 17:55

Tech support for your parents

Digital Living Other software you might want to install: the Voice over IP client Skype so that anytime your mum or dad is sitting at the computer, they can give you a ring for free. When you're visiting your parents is a good time to bring their computer up-to...

11 May 2005, 12:43

Back up your mobile phone's phonebook

Digital Living The second method uses a SIM card reader (pictured below) that is usually pretty small and fits on a key ring. I have a habit of losing my mobile phone, but fortunately I usually find it after a few days under the sofa or in a coat pocket.

23 August 2006, 14:47

A brief introduction to global gadget warming

Digital Living He'll be at home next week, trying to sync all 53 iPods and the door bell will ring and his 300GB iPod Mammoth will be delivered. Gadgets all over the world are losing their cool rapidly. From Scunthorpe to Sydney, we're seeing global gadget...

18 April 2006, 12:03

Apple Newton vs Samsung Q1 UMPC

Digital Living Having nothing better to do with our time, we've decided to throw them into the ring for a head-to-head comparison. We've all dreamed of owning a portable device that can organise, entertain and enrich our lives.

Tags: battery life, microsoft office, pen, tap

27 July 2006, 17:39

Extend your mobile phone's battery life

Digital Living A loud ring and the vibrate mode also use up a lot of power, so turn down the volume and turn off the vibrate mode if you don't need it. Nowadays phones have a tonne of functions and all of them drain battery power, so if you don't need something...

14 June 2006, 15:50

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living I have certain friends I use as pathfinders: people I can ring up or email and say, "What should I be reading/listening to/watching? You spend a third of your day working, a third of the day sleeping, and you have another eight hours a day to spend...

26 October 2005, 12:48