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Top 10 Christmas gadgets

Posted on01. Oct, 2009 by Rob.

Forget carol singers, office parties and the dreaded Secret Santa, what we really want at Christmas is a huge pile of presents under the tree – preferably with our name on

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10 awesome turntables to satisfy your vinyl lust

Posted on20. May, 2009 by Rob.

Who needs low bit-rate MP3s when you can enjoy old-fashioned records instead?

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SlingPlayer for iPhone: reviewed and rated

Posted on13. May, 2009 by Rob.

SlingPlayer for iPhone will appear on the App Store between 5.01am and 11.01 am today. The UK version costs £17.99

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WWDC 2009: 10 things Apple should do next

Posted on12. May, 2009 by Rob.

The triumphant return of Steve Jobs, Mac OS X 10.7, iPhone 4.0 and more

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CES 2009: the hottest trends in tech

Posted on01. May, 2009 by Rob.

If staying in is the new going out, then you’re going to need to some cutting edge home tech to keep your entertained – and there was plenty of that on offer at CES 2009

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10 great MIT projects that will change your life

Posted on21. Apr, 2009 by Rob.

Scientists often get a hard time from technophobes, not least because some of their research stems from the university of the bleeding obvious. Over at MIT there’s plenty of real work being done – resulting in technologies, concepts and techniques that could change the way you live work and play

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Beginner’s guide to multi-room audio & video

Posted on17. Apr, 2009 by Rob.

Unless you have an iPod permanently strapped to you head, chances are there are going to be plenty times in the day when you, your music and your movies just aren’t in the same place at the same time

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iTunes 8.1 in 60 seconds

Posted on12. Mar, 2009 by Rob.

The massive speed boost is by far and and away the best thing about iTunes 8.1 so far – and that augurs well for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

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iTunes 8.1 imminent, big changes planned

Posted on11. Mar, 2009 by Rob.

Apple has tipped off iTunes fans to an imminent update that should boost the program’s performance, while also offering improved Genius features and more

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21 great guilty pleasures for geeks

Posted on05. Mar, 2009 by Rob.

It’s OK, you’re in safe company. We know you didn’t really buy that because it could interface seamlessly with The Cloud, or because it offers the best range of features for Small to Medium Enterprises, or even because it has the fastest processor this side of a LINPACK benchmark. You just like touching its rubbery buttons and the fact that it goes ‘ping’. You’re not alone. In fact, while you’re here there are some other guilty pleasures that we’d like to share…

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How to cut your kitchen’s carbon footprint

Posted on01. Feb, 2009 by Rob.

Domestic appliances are both saints and sinners when it comes to greening your home. Here are some things to consider the next time you buy

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How to turn your home into a high tech hideaway

Posted on01. Feb, 2009 by Rob.

One of the biggest benefits of choosing custom install is that enables all the technology in your home to melt away unseen. Here’s how

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Why Blu-ray audio will fail

Posted on07. Jan, 2009 by Rob.

Have you forgotten what happened to SACD and DVD-Audio? Pioneer has

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CES 2009: 7 reasons to be cheerful

Posted on05. Jan, 2009 by Rob.

The world’s biggest Consumer Electronics Show kicks off on Wednesday, with over 2,700 exhibitors flashing the gadgets you’ll want to be seen with over the next 12 months

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How to cut your high tech energy bill

Posted on01. Jan, 2009 by Rob.

Great energy saving ideas for your gadget habit – you could even help the planet too

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10 ways to better quality pictures and sound

Posted on05. Dec, 2008 by Rob.

It’s not all boom and tizz you know… oh OK, it is

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7 reasons why OLED TVs are the future

Posted on02. Dec, 2008 by Rob.

You have to be seriously well-heeled to want to spend £3,500 on an 11-inch TV, but Sony’s XEL-1 is so much more than that. For inside its diminutive frame lies an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display that promises to change the way the TVs are made forever

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10 ways to breathe new life into your old hi-fi

Posted on26. Nov, 2008 by Rob.

Our bothersome obsession with iPods and iffy quality digital downloads has made us deaf to the benefits of great sounding music. So dust off your hi-fi and try out these tweaks and tips I’ve just outlined to the readers of TechRadar

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So that’s how TVs work, thanks Björk

Posted on03. Nov, 2008 by Rob.

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Hands up, who wants a Digital Copy?

Posted on15. Oct, 2008 by Rob.

At Macworld in January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs trumpeted the arrival of Digital Copy: legit iPod-friendly versions of the movies you buy on DVD, that save you the hassle of being hounded by Hollywood’s copyright cops. But then not very much happened, in the UK anyway. What’s going on?

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10 ways Apple could improve iTunes 8

Posted on07. Oct, 2008 by Rob.

Apple promised big things for the launch of iTunes 8 last September, and what did we get? A music recommendation engine and another layer of UI glossiness in the Grid view. Genius? Not really. What we really hoped for and expected was a complete ground-up revamp that prepped iTunes for the future. Why?

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