Digital Lifestyle
Everywhere you look there is a new electronic gadget or gizmo trying to capture your imagination. Digital501 is a site that takes a look at a few categories of Digital lifestyle toys and gadgets. While not covering the whole gamut of what is available they appear to cover a few topics. There is only 4 topics listed and these are General, Computers, Mobile and Audio/Video.
The Computer section Looked promising at first, but only has a few topics - and most of these were about Macs! A quick look at them and then I skipped off. While a Mac may be a good alternative, I am not in that space and the articles held little personal interest. Mobiles - the next category We looked at was more about Music and email on the move. With An article about managing your Podcasts in iTunes and a review of a Blackberry. The Blackberry article is fairly lengthy and talks about how easy it is to set it up for email on the go and synchronising etc. I personally don’t have any sort of Blackberry - I prefer to be able to leave my email at home rather than have it with me everywhere I go.
Onto The Audio/Video - which concentrates mainly on TiVo or PVR (Personal Video Recorder). I have heard of a TiVo and Media Centre Computers but have not yet ventured into making a purchase yet. The TiVo articles are really pretty good - It gives a decent explanation of what a TiVo is. Well it is simply a recorder - much like a VCR, but it records video to a Hard disk (like what is in your Computer). At the moment, I am not really convinced that it is worth it - why add another box to record TV when I only actually sit down and watch 3 or 4 shows per week? I cannot justify the cost of such a device. Well the Author of the Focused TV article reacons it is great - and makes it easier to watch what you want.
Finally, the General Section covers other sort of gadgets and High-tech toys - with Things like portable e-book readers and VOIP to name just a couple. This section has the majority of items. The site is created with Wordpress and allows user interaction in the way of comments on the Articles. Some of the Articles have a lot of comments and others only have a few. Overall the site has a reasonable number of artiticles, frequently updated and all are based around what a typical middle-class family may be interested in.
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