By Jonty Quilf, Electrical Correspondent — I’ve just come back from the newsagent’s with a copy of the Daily Telegraph, a publication so expensive and impossible to read that it’s rapidly become the most popular newspaper. It’s a triumph of marketing over functionality.continue
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23 reasons not to read the Telegraph because the Telegraph is rubbish and everything is the Telegraph’s fault, by a professional journalist
on 15 September 2010
Thoughts on censorship
on 14 September 2010
Apple has published, for the first time, the guidelines according to which it approves or rejects apps submitted to be made available to users of its iOS devices (the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch). continue
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Steve has new thoughts on Flash
on 9 September 2010
In a development absolutely nobody had predicted (counter-examples welcome in the comments, but I’ll believe it when I see it), Apple has reversed its decision to ban apps based on Flash from the iOS App Store. continue
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Apple Special Event: more and less
on 2 September 2010
Apple’s annual iPod event was held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, one of the company’s regular venues, and livecast to press gatherings in locations including London, where my fellow hacks reported a less than stampede-like turnout. read the full report
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Victorian attitudes
on 22 July 2010
MacFormat asked me for a pastiche of a Victorian advertising poster for a feature on essential Mac applications. continue
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How to buy an old Mac
on 21 July 2010
Thanks to Apple’s build quality, old Macs rarely die – they just end up on eBay. You can get a usable machine from under £100. continue
iPhone 4: the end of pixels?
on 7 July 2010
Apple has dubbed the iPhone 4’s new higher-resolution screen Retina Display. So what exactly does that mean, and are Steve Jobs’ claims of “smooth and continuous graphics” – in other words, no visible pixels – technically justified? continue
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Ten reasons to doubt the Telegraph’s linkbait
on 7 June 2010
Today, Steve Jobs will announce the new iPhone. Despite sterling efforts, nobody has been able to reveal any substantial information about it, because Apple is highly secretive about new products. Yet the Telegraph’s Consumer Technology Editor, Matt Warman, managed to publish a piece before the weekend advising consumers of the 4G’s key weaknesses. How did he do it? continue
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Thoughts on ‘Thoughts on Flash’
on 29 April 2010
So Steve Jobs finally posted the reasoning for his decision to kill Flash, in any form, on the iPhone/iPad platform. continue
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The top 40 ways to get more done on your Mac
on 23 April 2010
Every year, the latest Macs get faster and faster. But do we? No matter how many teraflops it can flip, your computer’s ability to save you time and effort depends on you finding your way around its features and functions. continue reading excerpt
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