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7 days living with...voice control
FEATURE Talking shop 20 February 2012 11:10 GMT Tweet"These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along." No, not that type of voice control – we’re talking artificially intelligent gadgets rather than Jedi mind tricks here.
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7 days living with....the other computer (Apple Mac OS X)
FEATURE I'm a PC.... 24 January 2012 11:03 GMT TweetFirst up, a confession. I don't come into this experiment as a member of the anti-Apple brigade. Not completely.
I love my iPhone and, while it's not exactly essential, I have a good relationship with my original iPad too (although I should...
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7 days living with... some decent headphones
FEATURE High-end audio on a budget 28 November 2011 15:31 GMT TweetIt has to be said that in general I use rubbish headphones. It's been, well, forever, since I used a decent pair.
As a rule I've rarely strayed from the bundled earphones dished out in MP3 players and mobile phones. Yes, I know I work for a...
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7 Days living with ... film photography
FEATURE Can you survive a week without digital? 29 August 2011 11:01 GMT TweetAlmost everyone on Team Pocket-lint is a camera nut of some description but out of all of us with our various bits of high tech snapping kit, I've also got quite a strong collection of Lomo cameras. The question is though, is film still relevant beyond...
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7 days living with.....a budget tough compact camera
FEATURE Can the Olympus Tough TG-310 survive Pocket-lint's holiday? 15 August 2011 11:20 GMT TweetNot a week goes by on Pocket-lint where we don't report on some sort of tough gadget that claims to be waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, nuclear-war proof and so on. So I thought I'd take one of these, so-called, tough gadgets for a spin 7 days style.
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7 days living with...Windows Phone 7
FEATURE Is there a niche for the Microsoft mobile OS? 6 June 2011 12:17 GMT TweetThere's been a lot of talk about WP7 over recent weeks about its impact, or failure to impact, on the mobile market; reports of sluggish sales and problems with its first major update not having helped the fledgling operating system.
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7 days living with... Google Chrome OS and the Chromebook
FEATURE Life in the cloud 31 May 2011 18:17 GMT TweetThe crux of the Chrome OS operating system is that you live your life in the cloud through a browser. There is no desktop, no installing software and no local storage or applications.
If it sounds visionary, that’s because it is, but...
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7 days living with... a tablet
FEATURE Do you really need these things? 10 May 2011 18:05 GMT TweetThere has been a question buzzing round the Internet ever since the launch of the iPad which we, today, and the last 7 days, as a matter of fact, have attempted to answer. That question is this - does anyone actually need a tablet?
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7 days living with... Android
FEATURE Apple fanboy gives up iOS for a week 18 April 2011 0:07 GMT TweetI wouldn't say I was an Apple fanboy per se, for starters I use a desktop PC (quad core Intel and the gubbins) for most of my work and home computer-related shenanigans, a Toshiba netbook when working abroad, and have a 15-inch Toshiba laptop in case...
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7 days living with... FIFA 11
Can EA's title convert a PES fan? 21 March 2011 15:15 GMT TweetFirst up a confession: I'm a total PES devotee. I've been playing Konami's football franchise ever since it burst onto the PS2 back in 2001. I've bought and played every version since, and consider myself something of a PES connoisseur.
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7 days living with... the Olympus XZ-1
FEATURE Taking the technology on our travels 27 February 2011 20:07 GMT TweetOlympus has flexed a little high-end muscle and given us the XZ-1, a camera looking to stir things up at the top of the compact pile. It’s an increasingly congested place with some substantial offerings from the likes of Canon, Panasonic and...
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7 days living without...a smartphone
FEATURE Taking the technology into our lives 13 February 2011 14:40 GMT TweetMWC 2011 is around the corner and with it another flush of the very smartest of smartphones just waiting to wow the world. This year looks set to herald the dawn of the dual core handset, putting mobiles very nearly on a level footing with a lot of...
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7 days living with... Sky 3D
FEATURE Taking technology into our homes 6 February 2011 10:51 GMT TweetSky 3D launched with great fanfare in October 2010, but 4 months on, what’s the service like to watch at home, is it the future, and should you be rushing out to buy a 3D television and signing up to Sky’s 3D channel? No, we didn't know...