Even with the awesome power of the Web at your fingertips proper research can take ages. Consumers and experts rarely agree.

If you’ve managed to persuade yourself that a sat-nav is a better navigator than your brain and a map, here are some things to consider before you buy. ‘Try before you buy’ is useful with sat-nav.  Even if you end up buying on-line, it’s worth going to a shop and bothering the sales assistant with […]

What to buy There’s more to printers these days than you might imagine.  This Fogey still uses an HP Laserjet 6P from the mid-Nineties for printing black and white documents.  It’s quick and effective and the single toner cartridge seems to last for ever.  But he also has an HP Photosmart all-in-one for photos and […]

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.