Column published on Saturday January 5th 2008 in The Guardian “Dork Talk” – The Guardian headline Chasing the perfect smartphone is a frustrating game. This one is perfect but it doesn’t have Wi-Fi, that one would be ideal if only it had GPS. The other is OK but isn’t 3G. Aha, this is it! Oh […]
Column published on Saturday December 22nd 2007 in The Guardian “Why I love smart toothbrushes and loathe internet plug-ins” – The Guardian headline Stephen on the crazy world of Ogg Vorbis, plug-ins and incompatibility, and the joys of using a smart electric toothbrush There is fury in the web community on account of Apple and […]
Column published on Saturday December 15th 2007 in The Guardian “Why you should download a Seamonkey – The Guardian headline We looked last week at changing Themes via Firefox’s Tools-Add-Ons menu. Themes are all very well, but it is extensions that offer the real powerhouse possibilities Last week I showed how easy it was to […]
Column published on Saturday December 8th 2007 in The Guardian “…on pimping your browser” – The Guardian headline Stephen Fry shows you how to enhance your browsing experience with a few simple alterations to your set-up. Technical types are free to look away and snort gently. Go on, take Firefox for a test drive. Dork […]
Column published on Saturday December 1st 2007 in The Guardian “Is this the greatest living Englishman” – The Guardian headline Despite being the frontrunner, Tim Berners-Lee is admirably modest. Who is the greatest living Englishman? It would be hard to argue against the merits of Tim Berners-Lee, the sole begetter and inventor of the world […]
Column published on Saturday November 24th 2007 in The Guardian “Eco Media Player Cranks up the volume” – The Guardian headline I was mean to the Philips Streamium Player the other week. Some of you might have thought, “Well, that was a PC product and Fry is a Mac man to his boots, so what […]
Housekeeping How difficult, how exquisitely difficult it is to know where to begin. Anyone who has had the time or disposition to read the comments that readers have submitted to these pages over the last three weeks or so will be aware of a number of issues that need addressing. Firstly and most crucially: how […]