Monthly Archives: November 2000
Allaire – HomeSite 4.5
Allaire’s HomeSite 4.5 is one of the better known Web authoring suites currently on the market. Like Microsoft’s FrontPage, it is much more than a simple HTML editor, and includes design tools, support for various types of scripting (including VBScript as well as the more familiar JavaScript), database functionality such as ActiveServer Pages (ASP) and…
Eurotech – USB to Ethernet adapter
With more and more families and small businesses owning two or more PCs, interest in home networking increases by the week. The advantages of being able to share files, printers, modems – and Internet connections – should be obvious, and for anyone who has been forced to swap files regularly by walking between machines with…
MP3 players group test
As well as providing the hardware for the Nike player, Rio has produced a new MP3 player itself, in the form of the Rio 600. This is a follow up to its market-leading 500 device (reviewed here, when the company name was Diamond), so it’s interesting to compare what’s different in the new model. For…
Electronic Arts – Football Manager 2001
There’s only one footy management game… one footy management game… one footy management game… there’s only one footy management game. At least, there is to most PC sheepskin coat and cigar aficionados, and that’s Eidos’ classic Championship Manager 3 (due for a year 2001 re-make very shortly). So how does this latest offering from EA…
Viglen – HomePro PIII 733NLr
£800 can now buy you a very respectable general purpose home and office PC. This HomePro system from Viglen has a lot going for it, though out and out performance isn’t top of the list. The midi tower case into which the system is built sports a 10-speed DVD drive in the top bay and…
3Com – Air Connect Wireless LAN
In the last couple of years we’ve seen several attempts at wireless connection between computers and peripherals. Infra-red promised to give a cable-free desktop, but stick a cup of coffee in the wrong place and your keyboard is likely to stop working; even laptops need line of sight to printers in order to work properly….
Virgin – Dino Crisis
If it’s not an unspeakable, ancient, evil spirit threatening the world, or an unhinged madman with a claw for a hand and a penchant for cats, then it’s a mysterious outbreak of dinosaurs from the distant past, come to rend us limb from limb like the veritable rag dolls we are. Such is the plot…
MGI – PhotoSuite 4
There’s a booming market for image editing software at the moment, driven primarily by the popularity of digital cameras and scanners. PhotoSuite 4 Platinum Edition is very firmly aimed at that market, and is supposed to provide powerful image editing features to the consumer who doesn’t want to know anything about EPS, CMYK or RGB….
Entry-level EIDE hard drives group test
Although Seagate does offer a 20.4GB version of this drive, the one we received was the next step up, at 30.6GB. Not that it makes a great deal of difference, since most of the characteristics of the drives are the same. Rotational platter speed is 7,200rpm, which is higher than the other drives in this…