How to… create your own Mac-based digital home

The January 2009 issue of MacFormat magazine has a tutorial on creating a Mac-based digital home, written by yours truly. Here’s just a taster


CEDIA Expo 2008: the greatest show on earth?

Gadget makers from Apple to Toshiba are fond of telling us how their gadgets can put the style into ‘lifestyle’, but only at one tech show does that really hold true - the UK’s annual Custom Electronic Design and Installation (CEDIA) Expo. Here’s why…


CEDIA 2007 UK show preview

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Apple Mac mini - entertainment PC killer?

Apple took one step closer to full entertainment PC functionality this week with the launch of an Intel version of the diminutive Mac mini. Sadly it still lacks the features that could truly make it a Media Center PC killer


Future Home: Philips HomeLab

The technologies of tomorrow are already being played with in a little purpose-built house at the Philips Research Centre in Eindhoven, Holland. UK technology journalist Rob Mead takes a closer look


Digital Sound Projector: a new kind of surround sound

Forget everything you know about setting up a home cinema system: this speaker surrounds you sound all by itself