Author: Andy Merrett
Sanyo ICR 1000 dictaphone: great for those who like to talk
Long gone are the days of dictaphones with fiddly little tapes that kept jumping out and unspooling themselves. It's all digital now, and with that comes the promise of more versatile and longer recording times, and compatibility with a PC…
Video and audio streaming around the home still a decade away?
It may not be what the likes of Philips – with their connected home concept – and other manufacturers want to hear, but a leading music technologist, John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos, says that neither consumers nor technology is…
Creative's G500W 5.1 wireless speaker system
Last year we showed off one of Creative's new set of speakers aimed primarily at gamers, but good for music and movies too: the Gigaworks ProGamer G500 system. Now, add a 'W', and you get the new Gigaworks G500W…
Sony launch SVR-S500 PVR
Sony have launched their latest personal video recorder, the SVR-S500. Its features are fairly standard for a PVR: an 80Gig hard drive, two Freeview tuners, meaning you can watch or record more than one programme at once, 8-day advanced…
Mustek MP100 portable DVD player with 10-inch widescreen
Mustek have announced the launch of their MP100 ultra-portable widescreen DVD player. Its accessories include a car-mountable padded bag, so it's great for keeping the kids quiet in the back if you can't quite stretch to a car with built-in…
TD Website of the Day
Welcome to a new feature at Tech Digest. Website of the Day is where we showcase a fun, interesting, useful, or just plain quirky technology-related website. There are no prizes for the site owners or those who nominate them -…
Dell and Acer announce pre-standard 802.11n wireless notebook cards
Dell and Acer have both announced that they are making wireless cards available for their notebook PCs, based on the pre-standard 802.11n wi-fi specification. 802.11n provides vastly superior speeds and reliability over existing wireless 802.11 protocols. It's all looking…
Powerpoint virus killed off. Shame…
Oooh, wow man, so like they've found a vulnerability in some Microsoft software? Yeah, it's not exactly earth-shattering news is it? Still, I got to stick a big bug on the PowerPoint logo, so it's not all bad… I know…
Get ready to celebrate MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger 7th birthday
I'm not sure we should encourage the celebration of birthdays for pieces of software – it's hard enough remembering human birthdays without sending greetings and getting cake all over your PC keyboard when a Microsoft product gets another year…
Work on UK digital switchover begins in Border
Work on the UK's switchover to all-digital terrestrial broadcasting started in Caldbeck today with construction starting on a 337m high mast for the Border region, which will be the first area to make the switch, in 2008. A second mast…