Forget referencing an external CSS file, putting everything in standards-compliant div tags or giving control over font size to your user. The only way to make sure your HTML email works in all major emails clients (and there are far more of them than web browsers) is to use tables. Yes, you read that right.

Things have improved at the film, video and sound end too. The number of cameras supported in their native formats is growing all the time, including the recent addition of the RED digital range.

There are tools for identifying music playing somewhere nearby, personalised radio, selecting wines, Twitter clients, finding a restaurant, stock quotes, green shopping and spotting Elvis (as you do). There are also a few media wrangling tools that will appeal to film and video types such as those to edit photos, take better photos or tinker with music.