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Codgers in Cars

Apr 23, 2012 1 Comment

There are plenty of nervous drivers out there. Age is no barrier to being ditheringly hesitant. Equally there are plenty of self-righteous mummies who tear up suburban streets with their cargo of mewling brats utterly oblivious to the world outside their tinted windows

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Take the Tube

Apr 12, 2012 No Comments

The Velcro-shoe brigade will tell you that valve-based, analogue audio systems sound better than their digital counterparts. They certainly sound different.

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Show Me the Money!

Apr 11, 2012 No Comments

TF has never been quite sure why so many desperate attention-seekers felt the need to share their sad little lives with the digital cosmos but now there’s cash to be made from a YouTube hit we totally understand.

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Adios Analogue TV

Apr 06, 2012 No Comments

If anyone out there who has the wherewithal to buy a new TV is still clinging to their old cathode ray tube (CRT) monstrosity out of some codgerish nostalgic whimsy, please stop it. Throw it away.

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King Content

Apr 04, 2012 No Comments

We, the consumers, are supposed to know what we want and how and where to find it online. We’ve supposedly demanded unlimited choice and so now we have to make our selections and pick out our personal nuggets from the colossal heap of audio-visual spoil.

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Fogey Friday 30th March

Mar 29, 2012 No Comments

Angry Birds fly into Windows and whether streaming music, movies and all that audio-visual fluff will really take over from physical media such as DVD, Blu-ray and CD.

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Fogey Friday 16th March

Mar 16, 2012 No Comments

A weekly round-up of stuff we’ve read in the papers and things we’ve done. This week; more on the latest iPad, Mashable, Raspberry Pi, Dell, Skype and homelessness

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Fogey Friday 9th March

Mar 09, 2012 No Comments

So there was a new iPad. Oh joy of joys!! Plus some other stuff about Pandora, Bentley, Yahoo…

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Laptops buying guide

Mar 07, 2012 No Comments

Want to buy a laptop? First answer these simple questions.

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Fogey Friday 2 March

Mar 02, 2012 No Comments

This the first Fogey Friday round-up. Hopefully TF can get off its fat arse and post one at the same time every week. We have nothing better to do, after all.

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