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Election night in High-Definition? I almost voted.

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Does Word keep bollocksing it up when you’re trying to mark a section of text? Here’s how you fix it.

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Find it hard to proof on Word 2007? Getting inconsistent spacing? Here’s the solution.

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Conventional wisdom has it that digital doesn’t degrade gracefully. That unlike, say, the random fuzz introduced into a conventional analogue TV picture by interference, you get the blocky, stalled or jittery breakdown more familiar to digital viewers. It’s generally true, but not always, as I think the image above – produced when a network fault [...]

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An earlier gush on Twitter (I refuse to pander by calling it a twush or anything equally facile) provoked a couple of replies, revealing that I’m not alone in my admiration for Google’s Chrome browser. I came to it late – about two weeks ago, truth be told. I’d been struggling with IE, and have [...]

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Having my weekly rant this morning, I remembered something trivial that annoys the shit out of me, and thought I’d share the love. See, now, I hate adverts generally, and I reserve a special bile for ones in which two of my favourite TV people prostitute themselves at the altar of car insurance, but there’s [...]

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Linkanalyst sent this particular slice of Onion genius around today: In fact, the Macbook Wheel reminded me of this year’s Royal Institute Christmas Lectures (a fine institution that has been steadily slipping down the channels over the years, and which now resides on Five, alas). The last lecture dealt with the challenge faced by computers [...]

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Right, listen up. I’m digging Hicks out of the cold earth and we’re going to work on some advertisers. Why? Reason the first is that I’ve met a couple, and at least one of them is without merit as a human being. But the second reason – and the point of this rant – is [...]

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You know how, once you get familiarised with something, it’s hard to spot that it’s stupid? Well, every now and then you get a flash of perspective. Earlier my brother sent me a link to a Times Online story. As sometimes happens in email, the link got broken across two lines. In this case just [...]

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Unless you’ve been beyond the event horizon of late, you’ll know that on Wednesday this week the Swiss will be flicking the on switch on the Large Hadron Collider, with a small chance that they’ll precipitate the formation of a black hole that will snuff us all out of existence. I’m optimistic. I read a [...]

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