Digital-Lifestyles

May 2008

  • Radiohead Pay-What-You-Want Album, A ‘One Off’

    Radiohead Pay-What-You-Want Album, A 'One Off'Thom Yorke has said that the ‘In rainbows’ album that surprised the world — and frankly gave them a near incalculable amount of free publicity — was a ‘one off.’

    Yorke went on to say “I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” which we read as, our contract came to an end with our record label, we needed to get some pretty big attention and it worked. Now everyone in the world has re-remembered who we are, we’ll go back to the old model of selling records to people.

    There’s been various reports of how many people paid for ‘In Rainbows’, varying between a third and how Italy had 75% pay for it.

    Yorke went on “We are about that direct relationship (now) because we are big enough to establish that.”

    Enough said.

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  • Archos Portation: Product Run Through: Audio

    Archos Portation: Product Run Through: AudioWhile we were at the Archos launch in London last week we had a run through of the Archos Portation.

    It’s a free plugin for owners of the Archos TV+ which lets you stream live TV from your TV+ to a laptop, Symbian phone or handheld Archo 605 or 705 with DVR station if they’re equipped with the £30 plugin.

    Think of it as a free Slingbox with your Archos TV+.

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  • FaceBook In The Real World: Video

    FaceBook In The Real World: VideoWe’ve all seen the rise of social networks and their replacement by others, as the fashion changes.

    Many devoted their lives to MySpace when it arose, collecting as many MySpace ‘friends’ as possible to show others of their ‘friends’ just how ‘popular’ they were.

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  • iPlayer Now On Virgin Media TVs

    iPlayer Now On Virgin Media TVsAs expected, BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin media at the press of the Red Button on the remote to view on their TVs, rather than having to drag their PC in front of them.

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  • Frozen: Liverpool Street Station Flashmob

    Frozen: Liverpool Street Station FlashmobThose of you who thought that Flash Mobs had gone out of fashion since the first one in the UK back in August 2003, can think again.

    Wednesday just past saw an interesting Flashmob come back at Liverpool Street Station. The brief for this event looked like it was going to be fun – to stand frozen in mid pace for four minutes.

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  • YouTube Launch New Video Player Beta

    YouTube Launch New Video Player BetaLooking around YouTube this morning we saw that YouTube has a new video player available.

    It’s in Beta, natch, and even when it’s selected you still have the ability to switch back if you want.

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  • GTA4: Readers Review (99%)

    GTA4: Readers Review (99%)You’ll all be aware of the hoopla around the release of Grand Theft Auto 4, or GTA4, as it’s now known. We thought we’d take a different tack to other publications and publish the review of one of our readers, Andrew N.

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  • Transparent Computer Screen Photos

    Transparent Computer Screen PhotosYou may well be aware of the transparent desktop crazy that’s been around a few years (we used a photo earlier this week).

    People take photos of what’s behind their computer screen, then load these photos up as wallpapers on their computer desktop – then take another photo of the real world and the computer screen.

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