Category: TD Tips
A feature where each writer on Tech Digest must pick a gadget that he/she would buy given a certain budget.
How to transfer big files across computers without using Dropbox or cloud services
I don't want to overhype this, but I might be just about to change your life. Really. Have you ever wanted to transfer some big files? Either over the internet or around your local network? BitTorrent Sync might be the…
Smartphone switchover tips: Making the jump between Android, iPhone and BlackBerry that bit easier
Did you upgrade from one smartphone to another over the Christmas period? Maybe you jumped from one operating system, like Google's Android, to Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft or iOS with the iPhone? It can be a relatively stressful…
DEAL OF THE DAY: £49 iPad from T-Mobile and Groupon
Fancy nabbing yourself a cheap as chips iPad? Well today may well be your lucky day. In what is obivously an attempt to get rid of surplus stock ahead of th eiPad 2 launch, T-Mobile are teaming up with Groupon…
Amazon bring pre-Christmas "Black Friday" deal madness to the UK
Your bank balance may be about to breathe a sigh of relief, as Amazon have just announced they are to bring their super-cheap "Black Friday" deals to the UK in time for the Christmas shopping rush. While Black Friday will…
Gadget FAIL? Try turning it off and back on again in 27% of cases
Ever taken a screwdriver to the innards of a beloved, dying gadget in the hopes of breathing new life into it? Well you shouldn't bother according to the Gadget Helpline, as in many cases there is a much simpler solution;…
Pick up Shadow Complex on Xbox Live Arcade for just 800 MS points (£6.20)
Each week the Xbox Live team put up a couple of offers to entice Gold subscribers to start flashing the moolah. Sadly, more often than not the games they pick to discount are rubbish. Not this week however. For…
Must-have free Blackberry Storm 2 apps: Viigo, Windows Live Messenger and 7 Digital
3 Blackberry Storm 2 apps that wont burn a hole in your pocket.
Buy Modern Warfare 2 for £26 from Sainsbury's
In an aim to make as many copies of the game available to the public as possible, Sainsbury's will only be allowing one copy per customer.
TD Tips: the best online TV viewing/stealing platforms
With the sad and slightly tinged with irrelevance news of project Kangaroo biting the dust, we here at TD wanted to share our alternative suggestions for good, damn good and downright excellent places to watch TV on the internet.
So, instead of waffling on – which believe me, I do like to do – about why Kangaroo’s failure isn’t so bad and yet is important in terms of intelliectual property, let’s get straight to the heart of it. What are we going to do now? Where should we watch TV online. Well, this is the Tech Digest answer…
TD Tips: What's the worst Christmas present you could receive?
Buying Christmas presents has become a very easy thing since the dawn of the fabulous Tech Digest Top 100 Gifts of 2008 countdown. But if you want to be some kind of maverick about the whole thing and go off book, then before you go making any grave tech errors heed our warning on today’s TD Tips.
As always with this feature, I canvass the opinions of our four writers and today the question is: what is the worst tech present you could receive this Christmas. The rules are…