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

  • Friday Video: Domino PCs

    Friday Video: Domino PCsHere’s the Friday funny video of the week.

    Two young bucks have tried to make the most out of a huge amount of PCs that must have been hanging around the office.

    It looks like they must have been left alone over a weekend and given this, decided to get creative.

    It’s been around for a little while – it was uploaded late April – but given the language used “dot com crash,” it sounds like it was at least a few years back.

    None of this diminishes the entertainment we think you’ll get from watching it.

    Watch it after the jump
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  • Porn Scum Stoop Ever Lower

    Porn Scum Stoop Ever LowerThis morning my daughter was having a look around for some pictures of medieval castle’s on Google Images. She’s six and a half.

    My Wife was sitting with her while she browsed the index, and as the results looked quite reasonable, she left the room to let her browse around the search results.

    Next thing, our daughter was calling out that she didn’t like what was on the screen – and seeing what was there, no wonder. It was a porn site.
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  • Microsoft Surface Parody Video: Brilliant!

    Microsoft Surface Parody Video: Brilliant!We’ve all seen the video of Microsoft showing off the surface table that lets you interact in what is now a novel way.

    We’ve found a video that brilliantly mocks it.
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  • HTC Touch Phone Review

    We were recently invited to the launch of the HTC Touch phone – a new slimline WM6 phone sporting ‘TouchFLO’ touchscreen technology – and the assembled herd of head honchos told us that HTC was hoping to steal some of Apple’s thunder ahead of the release of their (over) hyped iPhone.

    Now we don’t go in for all this ‘unpacking video’ nonsense, but we feel that HTC’s packaging was especially noteworthy, with the Touch coming in a stylish black box containing a large, full colour manual, which made a very pleasant change from the usual multi-language folded leaflets instructing us to, “Read the PDF file for more.”
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  • VideoIPO: Video Stock Exchange: Trade On YouTube Popularity

    VideoIPO: Video Stock Exchange: Trade On YouTube PopularityA nifty mashup reaches us via Perry Aulie, co-founder of VideoIPO.

    It’s a service that is hoping to make a success out of the enormous and growing interest in watching videos online, specifically YouTube – but not by following the same now-overdone model of serving videos.

    VideoIPO lets you trade on the popularity of YouTube Videos by mashing up YouTube video and the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) trading engine.
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  • China Unblocks English Wikipedia, Mostly

    China Unblocks English Wikipedia, MostlyQuick catchup news. China has modified their content blocking – or Great Firewall of China as it’s sometimes called – to allow through the English language version of Wikipedia to be seen in China.

    This change only took place at the beginning of this week. My experience the week before (while in Beijing), was that results were show in Google, but when clicking on the Wikipedia links, they would timeout with nothing displayed – classic firewall blocking behaviour.
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  • Vodafone Mobile Broadband Is Great: UK Price Drop

    Vodafone Mobile Broadband Is Great: UK Price Drop TooFrom the beginning of July, Vodafone UK is dropping the price of their Mobile Broadband service to £25 a month or a ‘designed to get you to take the monthly offer,’ £8.50 for 24 hours.

    There’s also a new feature that gives the ability to continue data connections, while you’re in select European countries for £8.50 for 24 hours.

    All of these prices exclude VAT.

    They are pitching it as a real alternative to fixed-line broadband and Wi-Fi.
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  • YouTube On iPhone: H.284 Encoded

    YouTube On iPhone: H.284 EncodedWith just over a week until the whole of humanity is saved and we shall never have to worry about disease again launch of the iPhone in the US, Apple have let it be known that they have been getting even closer to YouTube.

    YouTube have been busily re-encoding lots of their videos to H.264 and the Apple iPhone (aka Mankind’s Saviour) will be the first phone to make use of them. The advantages to Apple is PR (You’re reading this) and the playback of H.264 should be more battery efficient, as it doesn’t need the whole of a Flash player to render the videos on the handset.

    Over 10,000 video will be available on the 29 June (iPhone day) with all of the other videos following suit, it’s expected, by Autumn (Fall) this year.

    By way of a lovely tie-up, it’s also the day that sees the YouTube on Apple TV go live – after they do the download update to their little boxes.

  • BeeBird: FM Transmitter

    BeeBird: FM TransmitterBeeBird, another FM transmitter reaches us, this time with a pretty decent look about it.

    The Chinese manufacturer, netSharp, got in touch with us give us the heads up.

    There’s a not-insubstantial 199 channels available for transmitting your fave sounds. The frequency range that can be chosen between, is 88.1 – 107.9MHz.

    The chosen frequency is displayed on the LCD display, while the simple up/down shuffle changes the frequency.

    It’s got FCC approval, and as long as its output is under 50 nanoWatts, it will be legal in the UK under OfCom rules too.

    It looks at light as it is at 30g excluding the one AAA battery it runs on (there’s also a car power adaptor available). As you’d expect, it has a 3.5mm headphone jack, so will play from any sensible music source.

    Price? Not clear yet. We hadn’t heard back before going to press.

    NetSharp BeeBird

  • Plazes Launches Out Of Beta

    Plazes Launches Out Of BetaPlazes, a service that enables its users to create geo-indexed information, has finally come out of beta to a release version.

    We’ve been using Plazes for over two years now, so its beta phase has been pretty extensive. In that time it has grown not only in number of users, or locations ‘discovered’ – it’s topped 20,000 places in over 120 countries now – but in terms of functions.

    Since we last looked at it, about six months ago, it’s gained a Twitter-like function – the ability to add short messages telling people what you are up to at any time of the day. This can also be done by mobile phones these days.

    Further new additions bring the ability to add comments to any of the Plazes – anywhere with a WiFi connection – providing a review function as well.

    If you haven’t see it before it’s well worth having a look at – Plazes