From the Editor
I know we don’t need yet another TV comedy panel show (surely 587 is enough?), but how’s this for an idea: ask people to imagine what their younger self would have made of tech phrases that have entered the language. There are lots of great examples – ‘block cookies’, ‘take a selfie’, ‘add Bluetooth’ and, as featured in our Cover Feature, ‘stream ripping’. You probably didn’t even realise that by downloading videos from YouTube you were, technically, ripping a stream. But knowing that doesn’t mean it’s easy. There are lots of settings to tweak, formats to select and dodgy tools to avoid. Robert Irvine explains your best options not just for YouTube but for BBC iPlayer and Netflix as well. ‘Sync your passwords’ is another phrase that would have baffled people last…