Consumer Electronics
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Digital Living I: Turning Your Home PC Into A uPNP Multimedia Streaming Server
Wednesday 26 September 2007 – 10:06
Turn your home PC into a video source for your digital living room. With the right software, virtually any system can be upgraded to a ... read more
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Radiosophy's HD Radio
Wednesday 19 September 2007 – 04:11
A New HD Radio You would think that under the category of tabletop clock radios, there wouldn’t be much to attract a Tom’s Hardware Guide ... read more
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HDMI vs. Component - What's The Difference?
Friday 14 September 2007 – 11:53
Amid a global spectrum of high definition format battles, none is so misunderstood as the debate between HDMI and component video. Some ... read more
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Sometimes TV Gets Too Hot to Handle
Thursday 13 September 2007 – 11:01
In 2005, in tandem with Mike Chin, Matt Wright, and Justin Korelc, I wrote a book for Wiley Publishing called Build the Ultimate Home Theater PC ... read more
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IFA 2007: 4 Videos of our Expo Highlights
Thursday 6 September 2007 – 01:21
Full-HD capable flat-screen TVs with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 are replacing the “old guard” of HD-Ready units. 100 Hertz technology ensures ... read more
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IFA 2007: Two HD-DVD players from Toshiba for Under € 400
Wednesday 5 September 2007 – 11:12
Toshiba’s HD-EP30 HD-DVD-Player Toshiba is trying to give customers an incentive to buy a HD-video player despite the ongoing conflict between ... read more
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IFA 2007: Two Full-HD Projectors from Optoma
Wednesday 5 September 2007 – 10:43
Optoma HD81LV (left) and HD81 (right) Optics specialist Optoma is showing two high-class home cinema projectors at the IFA. By now, support for ... read more
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Technology Meets Porn
Friday 31 August 2007 – 11:09
It’s no longer a dirty little secret. In fact, it’s no secret at all: a lot of new technology we’ve come to rely on in the past 30 years has ... read more
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IFA 2007 Show Preview
Wednesday 29 August 2007 – 03:31
MP3 specialist Archos will be showing a range of new players at the IFA 2007 – including the Archos 405 and the 605 WiFi model. This is the ... read more
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Ditching Your Boring Media Player
Tuesday 28 August 2007 – 10:22
Most of us tend not to consider a change in media player, and if we do it tends to be because some fault or feature (or lack thereof) has become ... read more
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Reviewing Canon's New DSLRs
Friday 24 August 2007 – 03:19
There is no question in my mind that Canon is the most adventuresome and creative company producing digital single lens reflex cameras (DSLRs). ... read more
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Smart Replacement Remotes for Windows Media Center
Monday 20 August 2007 – 08:30
If you buy a PC with Windows Media Center installed you usually get a remote control with it. But it will be a TV style remote control crammed ... read more
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The Definitive Guide To Managing Lithium-ion Batteries
Friday 17 August 2007 – 11:47
Explosive yet oh-so necessary, Lithium-ion batteries reign in our electronic universe. Still, ask most people, average user and IT-enthusiasts ... read more
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Ditch Your Default IM Client
Wednesday 15 August 2007 – 12:39
I think it was around the time that Aaron managed to crash an XPS with the amount of instant messaging clients he was running that we decided ... read more
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Flash-Based Hard Drives Are Here
Monday 13 August 2007 – 01:56
The first fully-featured, commercially-available solid-state drive (SSD) has reached our storage test lab. While we already reviewed an ... read more
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HDTV For Gamers
Thursday 9 August 2007 – 08:42
Video games have always been on the cutting edge of visual technology, and the shift to high definition is no different. Gamers who opt to ... read more
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Instant Messaging for Business
Friday 3 August 2007 – 03:15
Nothing has changed as thoroughly in the past few years as our attitudes and behaviour where communications are concerned. The influx of ... read more
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7 Free Replacements For Everyday Applications
Friday 3 August 2007 – 09:01
In the course of day-to-day computing there are applications that often seem indispensable. The vast majority of supposedly irreplaceable ... read more
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Simplifying Mobile Search
Wednesday 1 August 2007 – 11:08
When you’re on the move, do you want to search the Web the way you would on a PC, or do you want to search for what’s around you? Sometimes ... read more
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The Keyboard of the Future?
Monday 30 July 2007 – 04:00
While tuning into "CSI" one day I saw this neat little projection keyboard, which supposedly worked with lasers. Alright, I thought, being ... read more
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Five Digital Photo Frames Reviewed
Wednesday 25 July 2007 – 02:55
It’s difficult to view your digital photos on the small screens of most digital cameras. And, if you want to share photos with friends, ... read more
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Summer 2007 Laptop and Notebook Buyers Guide
Tuesday 24 July 2007 – 09:44
Thin and light or mobile workstation, basic budget or high-powered business features, Macs or tablet PCs; today we’re going to tell you how to ... read more
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Six Indispensable Symbian OS Applications
Thursday 19 July 2007 – 08:05
Take part in our Reader Survey for a chance to win 2 GB of RAM from Crucial With so many phones running Sybian based OS’ we look at six of the ... read more
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HP TouchSmart IQ770 Media PC Reviewed
Tuesday 17 July 2007 – 07:31
It’s been a long time coming. But finally, one of the major players in the PC business has made a serious stab at producing a multi-purpose home ... read more
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The Definitive Beginners Guide To BitTorrent
Friday 13 July 2007 – 01:13
BitTorrent is a Peer-to-Peer method of file exchange developed by the American programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is still growing in popularity ... read more