Digital-Lifestyles

Mike Slocombe

  • Fridge Freezer Woes And Saving Cash Online (part 2)

    Fridge Freezer Woes And Saving Cash Online (part 2)In Part One, we covered the problems of our fridge freezer going on the blink and how we failed to find a way to fix ourselves.

    Time for a new fridge!
    Reluctantly admitting defeat on the DIY repair front, we headed off to the web to find a replacement, spurred on by a growing need for cold beers.

    Being gadget freaks (albeit ones with a limited budget) we set about investigating the spec sheets of various keenly priced contenders, and took a trip up to Curry’s for a physical investigation of what was on offer.
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  • Worldwide PC Sales Up 12%, HP Rule

    Worldwide PC Sales Up 12%, HP RuleThe world still can’t get enough of computers as second quarter sales figures reveal a mighty 12 percent hike from the same time last year.

    The wriggling bag o’stats from research firm Gartner and IDC put Hewlett-Packard at the front of the sales pack, grabbing the biggest share of the world’s PC market with unit shipments soaring by 37 percent.
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  • Ion Audio: 2 New USB Turntables

    Ion Audio: 2 New USB TurntablesHoping to tempt the kids to start playing the vinyl they’ve bought is Ion Audio who have knocked out two new versions of its popular iTT USB turntable.

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  • Fridge Freezer Woes And Saving Cash Online

    Fridge Freezer Woes And Saving Cash OnlineThere were unhappy faces around the Digi-Lifestyles office this week when our seven year old fridge freezer – keeper of the vital beer cans and supplies of cheese – went on the blink.

    The Servis fridge freezer had been taking a somewhat jazz/funk approach to its duties in recent months, but at the beginning of last week it unilaterally decided to instigate Operation Meltdown.
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  • BlackBerry 8820 Quadband Smartphone Packs Wi-Fi

    Research In Motion has announced its first ever multi-band phone to pack Wi-Fi, the BlackBerry 8820 Smartphone.

    The slinkiest BlackBerry to date, the 8820 offers a good ol’ fashioned hardware QWERTY keyboard (we like them), a large 320×240 display, trackball controls, onboard GPS (Global Positioning System)and EDGE/GPRS/GSM cellular and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) connectivity.
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  • Angry User Hurls Computer Out Of Window

    Angry User Hurls Computer Out Of WindowWe’ve shouted at it. We’ve shaken our fists at it. We’ve even given it a kick when it starts playing up and sometimes felt like inflicting serious damage on the thing, but we’ve never gone as far as this particularly aggrieved chap in Hanover, Germany.
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  • Pure Siesta: A Green Cred DAB/FM Clock Radio

    Pure Siesta DAB/FM Radio Bigs Up Its Green CredentialsBrit audio firm Pure Digital have announced a new affordable and rather dapper DAB and FM clock radio called the PURE Siesta, which offers market-leading standby power consumption and a host of green initiatives.
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  • Vinyl Sales Soar

    Vinyl Sales Soar, New Turntables From IonAlthough vinyl was supposed to have gone the way of clicky-clunky 8 track cartridges, Betamax and clackers, the format refuses to die, with new figures showing that sales of 7in singles actually rose in first half of this year.

    As sales of CDs continue to plummet, the tenacious 45 keeps on rocking, with UK industry group BPI, revealing that 7in vinyl sales were up 13%, with the White Stripes’ Icky Thump scoring up the highest weekly sales for a 7in single for more than two decades.
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  • London Gets Free Riverside Wi-Fi

    London Gets Free Riverside Wi-FiA new Wi-Fi network has been launched in London called Online- 4-free.com, covering around a 13.6 mile stretch of the River Thames, running through the centre of the capital.
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  • Mobile Search Business To Hit $2.4 billion by 2011

    Mobile Search Business To Hit $2.4 billion by 2011The Telecom and Internet industries are squaring up for a right old fist fight over who rules the consumer mobile search business.

    According to market research firm eMarketer, the battle looks set to resemble a full on pub brawl, with telecom carriers, handset makers, publishers, directory and yellow pages outfits, Silicon Valley big boys and a load of start-ups all looking to grab a piece of the mobile search action.
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