Until now Tech Fogey has been slightly underwhelmed by The Cloud. Small back-up storage devices that can hold many thousands of gigabytes of data are pretty cheap but they’re only really usable with a housebound computer. It’s true there are pocket-sized, plug-and-play hard-drives but it’s still another hunk of junk to lug around.
Tech Fogey has initiated an audit. How many electronic gizmos do we have, both in daily use and abandoned in boxes? The more we delved, the worse things became. It’s already embarrassing and there might well be forgotten contraptions that will only emerge when the loft is properly explored and thus make the accumulation truly […]
Driving Hammersmith fly-over on Saturday we passed a hording adjacent to the Polygram building that proclaimed, ‘AC-DC now on iTunes’. Tech Fogey’s heart sank and then rose. AC-DC have been one of the longest fogey-ish hold-outs against the irresistible onslaught of digital media and specifically, iTunes. Their reasoning had something to do with the supposed […]
Some tech stuff that stuff that’s been happening. Be still my beating heart.
Kickstarter projects from the UK can now be funded by online angels from around the globe
The world has gone mobile – tablets and smartphones rule – but why spend a ton of money at the Apple store when you get more tab-bangs for your buck from Amazon or Google?
Unfeasibly good value Samsung digital camera at Amazon.
In which Kickstarter helps wannabes become bes, 4G is shown to be fearfully costly to you dear punters and Apple shrinks its Pad
In which it becomes apparent that software providers routinely ‘steal’ your contacts list without you necessarily knowing, 4G and EE make the wrong sort of waves, fewer people search, some upstanding types in the US actually pay for their music and the US government has serious misgivings about Huawei and ZTE.
Smartphones + 4G = being able to download a deluge of inconsequential guff in seconds, rather than minutes. Please forgive us for being slightly underwhelmed by the rampant march of this ‘progress’ – we are Fogies after all.
There are so many styles of headphone and so many price-points buying the right pair could induce a migraine. Unless you read this.
As manufacturers pack ever more features into their TVs, those sets that don’t have the spangly new additions are flogged off on the cheap. So for even the slightly tardy adopter there are some serious bargains to be had.
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 […]
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 […]
