Before you buy a digital radio make sure you can receive digital broadcasts at www.getdigitalradio.com Then stick with your FM radio and all this DAB nonsense will go away. Unless over 50 percent of the populace take the digital option by 2015, FM will continue. See the Category Overview for why this will be a […]
The Fogey 5 are the best five products in their class by virtue of expert and consumer review from at least 10 respected and authoritative websites. Sky+ HD 1TB Now there is a box that any one of Sky’s 10 million+ subscribers would hanker after: the 1TB HD monster. It actually has 1.5TB of storage […]
Freeview, Freesat, Sky, Virgin and all that black box mallarkey… Even though we still refer to external plug-in TV tuners as ‘set-top boxes’ today’s TVs are so thin as to make such balancing acts impossible. Pedantic semantics aside, there’s still plenty of room for confusion when it comes to getting a decent choice of channels […]
When/how will you use your music player? If portability is paramount go for something small and light such as an iPod Shuffle (see pic above). The sound reproduction might be pants-to-purists and it might not hold that many tunes but through earphones even the crappiest sound quality is okay and how many tunes are you […]
What will you use your camera for? Some compacts are more compact than others. The Sony Cybershot DSC-T99 and Samsung ST100 are very slim, making them easy to carry in a pocket and less obvious to thieving bastards. Does your camera need to be rugged and/or waterproof? The Canon Powershot D10 and Casio EX-G1 are […]
Not too many of us trust satellite navigation. Apparently. Some study or other reckoned seven out of eight directional dimbos thought they might be being sent the wrong way – or at least not the best way – by their insistent little dashboard chum. TF can see why you might be glad of sat-nav in a foreign […]
Things change fast in consumer electronics and no more so than in laptops. But there’s now so much choice and so many new models that finding a bargain gets easier by the day.
The Fogey 5 are the best five products in their class by virtue of expert and consumer review from at least 10 respected and authoritative websites. Of all the Fogey 5 categories this one will likely date most rapidly. New handsets and uprated versions of operating platforms seem to appear weekly. AppleFruit, record label, world […]
An overview of the smartphone market. Do you really need all that funcitonality? Do ‘new’ developments create phones that are that much better than what’s come before? Should you commit to a 24-month contract to get a top handset or pay nearly £500 and be able to upgrade whenever you like?
The Fogey 5 are the best five products in their class by virtue of expert and consumer review from at least 10 respected and authoritative websites. Ten Top 10s, nearly 100 multi-function printers and precious little consensus. Ten printers featured on more than one Top 10 list. The HP Officejet Pro 8500a Plus was on […]
No one forces anyone to buy a book, whether it’s digitally rendered or paper and print. If Apple had set their prices too high, a lack of sales would have suggested their error. And there are always alternatives for the consumer such as libraries and those dusty repositories known as ‘book shops’
This isn’t so much built in obsolescence we’re talking about here, rather a deliberate and unnecessary removal of functionality from an otherwise perfectly serviceable device. That we paid good money for. And is now worthless, in every sense.
This bit of kit is integrated into a skull cap (a headband version is in the works) and displays the force sustained by head impacts on an LED display that sits at the back of the neck.
That’s what happens when you eavesdrop on conversations about subjects of which you know nothing. You find that the person upon whose eaves you were dropping doesn’t know anything either.
At 4pm the seething hordes of the geek media were let in to swarm around buffet tables groaning with free food and bars serving equally free booze. Somewhere amidst the platters of shrimp and beef skewers there were selected brands showing their products at very many small stands.
CES is now a curious circus, notable as much for some of the biggest names in tech that choose to be absent: Apple, Google, Amazon.
Users of social networks reveal far more about themselves than they should or that they are aware of and that in doing so they put themselves where the law, which has been tortoise-slow to try and get to grips with the new electronic age, cannot help them.
There is plenty written about the digital world that is mildly diverting, in a ‘what will they think of next?’ kind of way, while being unlikely to impinge on the lives of thee and me. Such is Bitcoin.
The HP website assures us that Windows 7 is pre-loaded with the driver that will make it and the 7690 sing sweet printerly music together. They are lying. And that lie is compounded by the fact that the driver we need cannot be downloaded from the HP website.
If you don’t like what’s being done with your online burblings, go offline, go analogue. Or just shut up.
Links to articles we’ve read recently, two from the Independent on Saturday 19th January and two from the New York Times on Sunday 13th January. All are worth a look.
Here’s a fine feature by Sam Anderson from the New York Times Magazine about mindless video games. The sort of things (Angry Birds) that have replaced the fag-break in the nation’s use of snippets of down time. This Fogey has spent an inordinate amount of time on Angry Birds and so far no 3-star level […]
Jeffrey Steingarten is food critic for US Vogue. His writing is wonderful and, since he’s waxed lyrical often about kitchen gadgets and food and cooking technology, he’s a perfect fit for Tech Fogey.
David Pogue is a very funny man who knows what he’s talking about. A rare bird indeed.
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