Monthly Archives: June 1999
Caldera – DR WebSpyder
You wouldn’t immediately think that there would be much of a market for a DOS-based Web browser. After all, as everyone knows, DOS is dead, long live Windows/Linux/BeOS/Whatever. You’d be wrong. For a start, there are hundreds of thousands of 386 and 486 PCs still in use all over the world, none of which is…
Brother – MP-21CDX
According to Brother, this is the smallest portable colour inkjet printer in the world, and we’ve certainly seen nothing quite as compact as the MP-21CDX. It’s a small oblong object, with single sheets of paper being fed in by hand at the rear and emerging at the front face up. The printer uses a four-colour…
MultiActive – ecBuilder Pro
These days it’s not enough for your company to have a Web site; that site must also be an e-commerce site, allowing customers to view your products or services and order them online. Fine if your company has plenty of cash to throw at a bespoke e-commerce solution, but for smaller companies on limited budgets,…
Fujitsu – Lifebook L460
Fujitsu’s Lifebook range of products, first introduced a few years ago, has built up a good reputation for style and reliability. This is the latest model in the range, and although the reliability part of the equation has yet to be proved, the Lifebook L460 certainly has style in abundance. It’s an ultra-slim machine with…
Iomega – Zip 250
There’s little doubt that the Iomega Zip drive is now the market leader in removable storage devices, ahead of its nearest rivals the LS-120 and Sony’s HiFD drives. However the Zip’s 100MB of storage has started to seem a little miserly given that the demand for capacity continues to rise – driven in part by…
Microsoft – Midtown Madness
Set in the legendary city of Chicago, Midtown Madness is a good effort by Microsoft to enter the ‘fun racer’ driving game market. Apparently, 65km of the city’s streets have been faithfully replicated in the game, broken down into numerous sections or tracks, which you race around in turn. Initially, your choice of cars is…
Adaptec – AVA-2904CD
There are now plenty of low-cost ATAPI/EIDE and SCSI-based CD-R and CD-RW drives on the market, making it easy for home and business users to create their own CDs, including backups, music compilations (copyright permitting) and archives. ATAPI drives are generally the cheapest and the most convenient to install, since they can be plugged into…