Digital Life

Must-have gadgets

The ultimate Christmas guide for the gizmo hound in your life, whatever their age.

The right box Make sure you select the right games console this festive season.	Your best shot Nick Cowen has a look at the top 10 video games of 2007.

Magic moments The best cameras to capture memories on Christmas Day.	Festive filming Richard Trenholm picks out his five Yuletide favourites.

Facebook privacy row

The social-networking site has vowed to make changes to controversial advertising system

Rivals join forces

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are uniting to launch a joint on-demand television service, writes Claudine Beaumont.

Apple of our eye

No longer the preserve of creative, graphic-design types in loft apartments, Apple has become unashamedly mainstream.

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Family PCs

There's more variety in the computing world than in a box of chocolates. Rory Reid hunts through the kit and finds something for everyone.

Deja vu or re-record?

Iain Gray remembers the last format war involving VHS and Betamax - even if Sony doesn't.

Creative thinking

You've got the computer, now you need the right program to release the artist in you. Rick Maybury chooses the best.

TELEGRAPH BLOGS

"Retrospective blogging was championed by the Dave Winer Data Institute in 2015, based on the idea that no one knows whether a decision is good or not better than your future self."

Ian Douglas

Sour grapes, rotten Apples: Ian Douglas