Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday January 12th 2008 in The Guardian “Social networking through the ages” – The Guardian headline There is some deep human instinct that compels us to take a wild and open territory and divide it into citadels, independent city states, MySpaces and Facebooks Much ink, electronic and atomic, has been […]
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. Sir Tim Berners-Lee Who is the greatest living Englishman? It would be hard to argue against the merits of Tim Berners-Lee, the sole begetter and inventor […]
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 […]