- Online Video Services Compared
- Digital Trends Guides - June 23, 2008
- It’s been barely the blink of an eye since the idea of actually downloading video to your PC or phone seemed like something straight out of a science fiction film. But given the meteoric increase in overall broadband adoption, skyrocketing down...
- MadDog Multimedia Proves Elusive When Trouble Strikes
- PC World Articles - March 26, 2008
- The graphics board vendor sent a reader two replacement cards that also malfunctioned, but it never tried to troubleshoot the problem. Plus: D-Link recalls its first dual-mode draft-n routers, and Magellan blames support problems on a change in outso...
- Universal Remotes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- TechLore - February 13, 2008
- If you’re one of the many people who are tired of having several remotes to run your entertainment system, you’ve probably been giving some thought to universal remote controls. Getting a universal remote will definitely save you some spa...
- Avoid Phishing Scams and Fraudulent Emails
- Digital Trends Guides - September 11, 2007
- Like most people in the Western world, or so it seems, you’ve probably received an e-mail from a bank (or eBay or Paypal) about security concerns on your account. It offers a link for you to click on in order to login and warns of dire conseque...
- Insider Secrets: Rid your PC of crapware
- CNET Videos: Insider Secrets - July 24, 2007
- Rich DeMuro and Dan Ackerman show you how to identify and remove icons, links, and trial programs you might not need on your new PC.
- Xbox vs. PS3: The Wii Lesson
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - July 11, 2007
- The title of this article sounds like I'm writing for an Irish publication of some type, and I suddenly feel the need to talk about the Wii people and a pot of gold.That pot of gold has been elusive to both Microsoft and Sony of late. Sony has been i...
- How To: Create A MySpace Band Page
- Digital Trends Guides - June 15, 2007
- Let’s face it, if you’re a musician these days and you don’t have a MySpace page, you might as well not exist. Of course, it helps to have your own site (which you can link to from MySpace), but this is free, and it’s a quick ...
- Photo Contest: Vote for Your Favorite Reader Photo for May
- PC World Articles - May 24, 2007
- Subscribers to Dave Johnson's Digital Focus column have taken these shots. Dave narrowed down May's finalists; you vote on your favorite using the link in the caption below.
- 10 Ways to Come Home to Music
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - April 16, 2007
- Audio equipment is a crock of pretentious technical jargon, a pile of useless black boxes, a plague of blinking lights, a waste of space, a needless drain on your household income—unless it brings you closer to music. Then it’s form of nu...
- 2007 Sony Line Show
- Digital Trends Features - March 12, 2007
- Sony recently hosted their annual line show in Las Vegas to showcase their new 2007 product lines. The company, struggling to keep top tier market share as it battles the likes of Apple and Microsoft in various vertical CE spaces, had some flair goin...
- Sony Blinking Codes & What They Mean
- TechLore - October 27, 2006
- Many of the later model Sony TV’s have a built in self-diagnosis function. If the timer/standby indicator is blinking, this could be an indication of a problem with the unit. The diagnostic blinking will occur automatically with no action requ...
- XBConnect: A Free Alternative to XBox Live
- TechLore - June 14, 2006
- Are you tired of paying for Xbox Live and/or dealing with punk kids in the Xbox
Live servers? There are alternatives - XBConnect and Kai Xlink. This article
deals specifically with XBConnect, though an article of Xlink may be
forthcoming. The followi...
- Use a Game Genie to Get Your NES Games Working
- TechLore - July 25, 2005
- Any classic gamer knows that playing old school NES games on the original NES hardware always starts with a fight to get the game running. The classic hardware is a front-loading (zero-insertion force) design where you slide the cartridge in from the...
- Ask The Experts: Receiver not Decoding Multichannel Audio
- TechLore - June 14, 2005
- Question:I was given a Sony STR-DA30ES receiver. There is a light that is supposed to light up when the unit is decoding a multichannel signal. I have the dvd player hooked to the the receiver through RCA cords (red ,white ,yellow). Do I need to use ...
- Ask The Experts: DVD Picture is Flipping
- TechLore - June 1, 2005
- Question:I have a Koss DVD player, almost brand new, and with or without a disc in the picture flips nonstop!!!!!!!!!!!!it is driving me insane! Help!-submitted by lindaidaAnswer:Since we don't want you to lose your mind, here's some info that may he...
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