Digital-Lifestyles

Simon Perry

  • Pacemaker DJ Handheld Mixing: Video

    Pacemaker: Handheld DJing tool: VideoWe were privileged to get our hands on the Pacemaker a while back – something we’d had a burning desire to do since we first heard about what the Pacemaker might be.

    It’s a handheld DJ unit that packs a considerable punch – sufficient to make it realistic to play a whole DJ set using just the Pacemaker and no external units.

    Slightly smaller than a vertically held PSP, it packs a 120GB drive; a colour display at the top touch sensitive cross-fader in the middle; circular selection pad at the bottom; a couple of buttons on each side and connectors on the bottom.
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  • Heading off to IFA in Berlin. …

    Heading off to IFA in Berlin. It’s a huge bun fight, but often raises a good story.

  • Facebook Developers Garage London Review

    Facebook Developers Garage London ReviewThe event took place at the T-Bar in the Tea Buildings in Shoreditch on Wednesday 15 Aug 2007. It was meant to start at 7pm but given the long queue at the door, the start was delayed.

    Since Facebook made itself a development platform, people or companies can create applications to run on it. The Developers Garages events are organised by local folk with the assistance of Facebook (the company). They’re spring up around the world as developers try to suss out if there’s an opportunity.
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  • Smokin’: Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel Get Microsoft Fix

    Smokin': Microsoft To Fix Xbox 360 wireless Racing WheelAfter some reports of problems with “smoking” when mains power units have been attached to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 wireless Racing Wheels, they decided to fix, or in their language “retrofit,” them.

    Their use of language really is spectacular, beyond “retrofit,” they also say that the “AC-DC power supply is used to energize the Wheel.” Energize! What’s this? Star Trek?
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  • Ofcom Report: Internet & Mobile Usage Up. TV, Radio & Phone Down

    Ofcom Report: Internet & Mobile Up. TV, Radio, Phone DownToday Ofcom have released their yearly Communications Market report, covering fixed and mobile telecoms, TV, radio and Internet use.

    It’s a massive collection of information and statistics running to 332 pages, covering the habits and preferences of the UK population during 2006.
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  • Members Spam: A New Strain

    Members Spam: A New StrainWe’ve recieved quite a few of what appears to be a new type of spam – and possibly phishing – email.

    Starting “Dear Member”, the mail tries to trick you into thinking that you’ve registered for some sort of service – Ringtone World, Pet World, Poker World, you get the idea.
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  • Blog Comments In The Real World: Hilarious Video

    Blog Comments In The Real World: Hilarious VideoThe art of commenting to posts varies greatly in the quality of their execution – passing between the truly insightful to the utterly inane.

    College Humor has create a fantastic video to demonstrate how the feeble end of the comment-scale would play out if used in a business meeting.
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  • Scrum.com Bought By ESPN

    Another week, another purchase of a Web-based service by a TV broadcaster.

    US, sports-mad ESPN have announced that they are buying UK scrum.com, a site that, not surprisingly is about rugby.

    Founded nearly ten years ago, in 1997, they take pride in their ability to break stories faster than “conventional media.”

    There’s been a number of moves of late by broadcasters to buy Web sites that focus on, what to broadcasters, are small niches – such as Discovery buying Treehugger.com, Cricket site, Cricinfo, which was also bought by ESPN and most recently cycling.tv by JumpTV.

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  • BBC Worldwide/ O2 Mobile Content Deal

    BBC Worldwide/ O2 Mobile Content DealBBC Worldwide has knocked out another content deal, this time to UK mobile company, O2.

    The deal, initially covering 300 individual pieces of content, includes video clips, wallpapers and ringtones from popular BBC TV programmes such as The Office, Little Britain, Doctor Who, I’m Alan Partridge, and League of Gentlemen. The various digital bits will be available, for purchase, from O2.

    Peter Mercier who recently joined as Head of Mobile at BBC Worldwide shook with excitement, “O2 is the largest UK operator by subscriber numbers so this is clearly a great deal for us in terms of getting our content in front of consumers,” he continued that it showed to “in-house and indie production partners how BBC Worldwide continues to innovate in the digital media sector.”

  • Xbox 360 UK Price Drop & Elite Too

    Xbox 360 UK Price Drop & Elite TooAfter a pretty long period of speculation, Microsoft have confirmed that they’ll be dropping the price of the Xbox 360 in the UK and releasing the Elite version too.

    As of this coming Friday (24 August) the entry model Xbox 360 Core will have a retail price of £180 – a £20 drop and the 20GB hard drive 360 will gain a retail price of £250 – a £30 drop.

    Filling out the top of the line pricing will be the Xbox 360 Elite, which brings an HDMI video port, wireless controllers, a black finish and 120GB drive – all at £300.