Your Digital Life

For those not intimately familiar with the nuances of the Wi-Fi wireless Internet standard (i.e. for most normal people), you may not know that it’s transitioning from an older version (dubbed 802.11g) to a newer, faster version (dubbed 802.11n). The previous “g” standard was fine for some basic wireless activities – web browsing or moving [...]

If you own a high definition camcorder from Sony, Panasonic, Canon, and JVC (among others) chances are you’re recording video in the AVCHD video format. While AVCHD video has a lot to recommend it, it’s often very difficult to view, edit and share on a computer, let alone to mobile devices like smartphones. This week, [...]

Iomega has announced a new line up of ScreenPlay Media Player products: the new DX family. This networked media player can stream your own digital content – your photos, videos and music – from a computer to you HDTV via Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections. Like a growing number of media players, the ScreenPlay not only [...]

As the years pass, we accumulate more and more digital photos, videos and music. If your digital life is sitting locked up on your computer’s hard drive, chances are it’s not being enjoyed as frequently as it should. A growing number of devices are hitting the market that promise to free that digital content from [...]

What fun are your memories if no one ever sees them? That’s become the $64,000 question for anyone with a digital camera these days. You’ve spent countless days clicking away, recording all the major (and sometimes not so major) moments in your life and then carefully uploading all these wonderful memories to your hard drive….where [...]

When it comes to protecting your photos, the watchword is “redundancy.” It’s important to make multiple copies of the same image and store it on different storage media to make sure your photos stay safe for generations to come. The question is: what’s the best place to store your photos? We’ve run down the pros [...]

One of the bigger complaints you tend to hear from camcorder owners is that it’s not easy to view their high def movies on the television. Sure, you could wrestle with HDMI cables and tiny camcorder remote controls, but why would you want to? Western Digital’s new WD TV Live Hub promises to solve this [...]