About Ian Dixon

avatar Founder of The Digital Lifestyle.com and host of The Digital Lifestyle Show. Started podcasting and writing about Media Center in 2005 and a Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP.
Website: http://thedigitallifestyle.com
Ian Dixon has written 3595 articles so far, you can find them below.


Netflix for Windows Phone updated

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Netflix for Windows Phone has been updated, no details on what has changed but if you have Netflix and Windows Phone get updating the app. Netflix is the world’s leading subscription service for watching TV episodes and films on your phone. This Netflix mobile application is designed to deliver the best experience anywhere, anytime. Get [...]

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TDL mystery prize giveaway, picture 2

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Picture 2 of our mystery prize, it’s a Kingston product and we are giving it away. I have been somewhat overwhelmed with entries so rather than picking the first correct entry I am going to put the correct entries into a list and pick a winner at random. So you can either leave your guess [...]

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Microsoft remove Windows Phone apps from the Zune PC Software

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  On the Windows Phone Blog Microsoft have announced they are removing the option to purchase Windows Phone apps from the Zune PC software, so purchasing apps must be done from the Phone or the Marketplace web site. It’s not a surprising move as most users purchase apps from their Phone or at least use [...]

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TDL mystery prize giveaway, picture 1

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Garry has come up with a great new competition for us with Kingston. We are giving away a mystery prize over the next few days and as Garry said on last weeks podcast it’s a new product from Kingston but thats all I can tell you. Each day I am going to show a tiny [...]

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Google launch Google Drive, another cloud storage service!

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There have been rumours of a Google cloud storage for what seems years and finally Google have announced a product. Google Drive gets you 5GB of storage for free with paid plans available: $2.49 per month for 25GB, up to 1TB for $49.99 per month.  There is a drive app for Android, PC and Mac [...]

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Windows 8 Release Preview coming the first week of June

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Microsoft have announced that the Release Preview of Windows 8 is going to be released in the first week of June. With previous versions of Windows a Release Candidate followed a beta but with Windows 8 Microsoft have opted for a Developer Preview, Consumer Preview and now Release Preview. Microsoft haven’t released any details on [...]

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OpenELEC build for Raspberry Pi

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With the Raspberry Pi boards now shipping to lucky customers OpenELEC have a build ready for the Pi. It’s early days but getting it working would be a great way of learning how to get packages installed and running. In the blog post on OpenElec.tv there are instructions on getting started plus useful links, I [...]

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SkyDrive for Windows launched, along with a Mac version

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Microsoft have released a Windows application for it’s SkyDrive storage service, the app enables you to browse and download/upload files from your SkyDrive directly in Windows (Windows 8,7 and Vista) You can also use the app to remotely browse your PCs file system from SkyDrive.com which is very handy if need access to file on [...]

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Skype for Windows Phone out of beta

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Skype for Windows Phone is officially out of beta. The updated version has a new search features but still can’t receive calls when the app isn’t loaded which to be honest doesn’t really bother me as I always tend to pre-arrange my Skype calls. The app is free from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Imagine talking [...]

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Happy 30th Birthday to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

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  30 years ago today the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum was released and helped spawn a generation of programmers (and gamers). The 16k version was launched at a price of £125 and the 48k version £175 and with hundreds of games available for it immensely popular in UK homes.  It wasn’t all about games either, [...]

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