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Aug 1, 2008

How to use your iPhone as a wireless modem

Posted by Daniel in Apple, How To, Miscellaneous, Portable Gadgets No comments
tether you iPhone

You are out and about with your laptop and want to access the internet, maybe to write a blog entry or you have some other work to do. Slight problem, there are no WiFi hotspots anywhere near you! You could do the stuff on your iPhone but it lacks a decent text editor and it [...]




Jul 23, 2008

How to make an iPhone/iPod stand

Posted by Daniel in Apple, How To No comments
iPhone stand

Not all the versions of iPod/iPhone come with their own stand as standard so the industrious users at instructables have come up with several homemade solutions. You could go out and buy a stand from the shops relatively cheaply, but you could make your own for less money and have more fun doing it. There [...]




Jul 22, 2008

How to improve your HDTV’s picture quality

Posted by Daniel in HDTV, How To 1 comment

Your HDTV is meant to have an amazing image quality but the chances are it is not as good as it could be. Unless you have calibrated your HDTV it will not be performing to the best of its potential. You could shell out a few hundred to get a professional to do it for [...]




Jul 11, 2008

How to create a Wii media center

Posted by Daniel in Articles, How To, Media Center, Wireless Stereo Systems No comments

The Nintendo Wii is very nice to look at and its unique controller system makes it extremely cool to play, but it does lack some features which other consoles have. One of these being an ability to connect directly with other devices on your network and stream photos, videos or music from them. Here is [...]




Jul 4, 2008

How to create an iPod in Paint

Posted by Daniel in Apple, How To No comments

Here’s a bit of fun for the end of the day. Who said Microsoft Paint was pointless?




May 7, 2007

Why the Media Streaming industy is still in its infancy

Posted by Mike Evans in Articles, Opinion No comments

One day in the not-too-distant future, media streaming as a technology will be so ubiquitous, we’ll look back on this period as the prototype phase, when all manner of devices were released by many different electronics companies, each offering something vastly different from the other.
Apart from being amused by the fact that you need a [...]




Apr 30, 2007

HDTV Info - an HDTV Buyer’s Guide

Posted by Mike Evans in Articles, How To No comments

Before you even think of buying an HDTV, you need all the HDTV info you can get your hands on. From the different HDTV resolutions to the HDTV source you choose, from your DVD player even to the HDTV connections you choose, all can make a difference to the quality of the picture you see [...]




Mar 26, 2007

Which media streaming technology should you use?

Posted by Mike Evans in Articles 1 comment

Things have changed in the digital home. Your music and films have become fragmented across various gadgets, and getting one gadget to talk to another is becoming more complicated by the day. Fortunately, new technologies are emerging to solve this problem by enabling music, films and many other types of media to be [...]