Monthly Archives: April 2000
Photo printers group test
Owning a digital camera is a considerable financial investment. Although it’s easy to view your digital photos on a computer screen, there’s nothing quite like a good quality glossy colour print. Until recently, the combination of a digital camera and a colour printer was no match for an old-fashioned film camera and film processing. But…
Davis – DP X16
Davis was one of the first companies to grab a firm hold of Texas Instruments’ DLP (digital light processing) technology to use in its projectors. This means that, instead of using LCD panels, the DP X16 and others of its ilk use a cunning chip that contains around half a million individually-pivoted mirrors. Light is…
Evesham.com – Athlon GeForce 700
Evesham.com (formerly Evesham Micros) is a heavy supporter of AMD and its Athlon range of processors and the chip is now cheap enough to be built into some quite inexpensive PCs. The cunning name of the Athlon GeForce 700 tells you quite a bit about the make-up of the machine. Housed in a midi tower…
LapLink.com – LapLink 2000
Do you remember when LapLink came in the shape of a single .exe file, just over 100KB in size? You’re in good company; so do we. At that time, the program was solely for file transfer between two machines, using either serial or parallel ports. It’s moved on since then, but the core principle remains…
Virgin – Messiah
Hi my name is Bob. I still wear a nappy despite being very, very old – in fact I’m immortal – and I sound like a whiny, spoilt brat. And it’s my job to save your planet. Lord help you all. Such is the fate of the Earth in yet another dismal far future scenario….
EuroSky – Internet via the Sky
Fed up waiting for ADSL? Don’t have a cable connection? Don’t want to pay £50 a month for broadband Internet access? If your answer to these questions is a resounding ‘Yes’, then EuroSky’s satellite-based broadband Internet access technology may be just what you need. On a very basic level, the EuroSky service allows you to…
Mattel Media – Earth 2150
You may remember Earth 2140. Then again you may not. It wasn’t exactly the biggest hit of the last century, granted, being at best a fairly mediocre real-time strategy game. Maybe that’s why the developer, TopWare, has taken another crack at making an impact in this crowded market. Has it succeeded second time round? Well,…
Canon – FS2710 Film Scanner
The huge surge in sales of flat-bed scanners in the last couple of years has not been matched by sales of film scanners. Yet, from a technical viewpoint, film scanners are much more desirable for scanning photos. A significant degree of image quality is lost when the image from a negative or transparency slide is…
Cybex – Switchview
There have been devices like this around for donkeys’ years. The Cybex Switchview is a keyboard, monitor and mouse switch that allows you to control either two or four PCs (depending on which model you choose) without needing two or four of everything. All you do is plug your PCs into the back of the…
AJP – 3300C
In the past, when Taiwanese manufacturers have tried to squeeze a desktop processor into a bulky laptop system the end result has invariably been horrific in pretty much all respects. Not so with this model from AJP. Although it sports a 750MHz desktop Pentium III, heat levels are kept low thanks to a large fan…