Digital-Lifestyles

Digital-Lifestyles pre-empted and reported thousands of articles on the then-coming impact that technology was to have on all forms of Media. Launched in 2001 as a research blog to aid its founder, Simon Perry, present at IBC 2002, it grew into a wide ranging, multi-author publication that was quoted in many publications globally including the BBC, was described by the Guardian as 'Informative' and also cited in a myriad of tech publications before closing in 2009

  • 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.

  • Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Packs 21MP

    Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Packs 21MPMad for it photographers will be looking to put their grannies on eBay come October when Canon’s high end EOS-1DS Mark III full-frame digital SLR hits UK stores.

    With a sensor capable of producing files that convert to uncompressed 16-bit TIFFs over 100MB in size, this camera doesn’t just raise the bar for photo professionals – it gives it an almighty boot skywards.
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  • Record Breaking Growth For UK Internet Sales

    Record Breaking Growth For UK Internet SalesWith shoppers driven indoors and online by the miserable weather, UK online sales soared past £4bn in a month for the first time ever, according to latest figures from IMRG.

    The online retail body reported that Internet sales have exploded over the last year, with this July’s figure of £4.2bn up a hefty 80 per cent from £2.34bn in July 2006.
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  • Skype Wobbles On The Weekend

    Skype Wobbles On The WeekendSome Skype users faced a frustrating weekend after a software bug left many unable to log in to the Internet phone service.

    The sign on problem surfaced early Thursday afternoon (August 16th), with the company’s blog reporting a software issue. At the same time, Skype temporarily disabled all downloads of Skype.
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  • Skype IM+ For Palm, WM, Mobiles And iPhone

    Skype IM+ For Palm, WM, Mobiles And iPhone With the folks at Skype continuing to ignore the loud pleas from Palm OS users, German firm Shape Services have created a Palm Skype compatible client, IM+ for Skype, which is also available for BlackBerry, Symbian S60 v3, Java powered phones and Windows Mobile Pocket PC platforms, with an iPhone version in beta (see below).
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  • HTML Editors: Freeloader options

    HTML Editors: Freeloader optionsFollowing coverage earlier in the week of the updates to BB Edit and Homesite 5.5, here we look at the freeloader options.

    If you’re keen to work in a text based environment but the wallet is only home to a few flapping moths, there’s loads of freebie HTML text editors worthy of a look.
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  • Sony Ericsson K770 Cyber-shot Cameraphone

    Sony Ericsson K770 Cyber-shot CameraphoneSony Ericsson’s new superslim K770 Cyber-shot phone has been announced today and it looks rather a dandy number to our eyes.

    A mere slip of a thing at just 14.5mm wide, the candybar-style handset packs a 3.2 megapixel camera and comes in what Sony is describing as “fashionable Truffle Brown.” We can’t say that the colour of truffles has ever been much of a hit amongst the fashionistas around our neck of the woods, but we’ll take Sony’s word on that.
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  • TAKEphONE 7 Review (Part 2/2)

    In part one of the review we looked at the basics, today we go further.

    Working with contacts
    Clicking on a search result takes you to the contact’s details and here the program really shows its worth: with one click you can call them, fire off a SMS, send an email from your preferred email client, schedule a meeting, edit their details or even see their address displayed on Google Maps.

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  • Fujitsu Lifebook U810 Gets US Release

    Fujitsu Lifebook U810 Gets US Release So small you want to pat it on the head and send it to bed early, Fujitsu’s diminutive Lifebook U810 is an ultramobile PC that can keep up with the big boys.

    Weighing just 1.6 pounds, the pint-sized, pocketable portable sports a 5.6-inch LCD touchscreen display (which can be swivelled around into a tablet PC), Wi-Fi, a QWERTY keyboard and runs on Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS or XP Tablet operating system.
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  • Homesite For PC: HTML Editors

    Homesite For PC: HTML EditorsHomesite 5.5 (Windows)

    Windows users looking for similar levels of hands-on functionality might want to take a look at the long serving Homesite 5.5.

    Although cruelly neglected by its current owners, Adobe, Homesite still rates as one of the very best HTML/web editing packages on any platform, offering a highly customisable editing environment backed by macros, projects, powerful search and replace tools and code-checking add-ons.
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