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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on 1 August 2010Aimed at the back-to-school market, this supplement was sponsored by Dell to run in the summer editions of Dennis Publishing’s consumer tech magazines. continue
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
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
Apple vs Flash: a publisher’s perspective
on 11 April 2010
So Apple has finally done it: having prevented Flash Player from coming to the iPhone (and iPod touch and iPad), it’s now, with the revised clause 3.3.1 of the iPhone developer agreement, closed the door to Adobe’s constructive and innocuous workaround of allowing Flash developers to convert their projects to iPhone/iPad apps. continue
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Digital Economy Bill: keep calm and log on
on 8 April 2010
Now that the Digital Economy Bill is becoming law, it’s time to move on from campaigning against it to working out how to cope with it. That’s why I designed this poster continue reading and see the poster
Why Cory Doctorow is wrong about the iPad
on 3 April 2010
Blogging in response to somebody else’s blog is not usually my style, but Cory Doctorow’s anti-iPad rant on BoingBoing is so well written and so wrong that it’s impossible to ignore. continue
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