Yearly Archives: 2001
Carry – USB Triple Card Readers
It’s one of computer life’s little truisms that there’s never one accepted standard for anything when there could be five competing ones. This is particularly true of memory cards, with five current standards: PCMCIA – also known as PC Card and ATA Flash, Compact Flash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia Card – aka SecureDigital – and MemoryStick. If…
Codemasters – Operation Flashpoint Gold Edition
You may have seen the original Operation Flashpoint game reviewed elsewhere, but we’ve been waiting for the full pack to come out. And here it is. The updated version of the original game plus the ‘Red Hammer: The Soviet Campaign’ add-on, which together make this one of the best war combat games ever to grace…
Canon – CanoScan N1240U
Flatbed scanners have never been particularly stylish things, but Canon’s certainly pushing things in the right direction. This new CanoScan N1240U is not a great deal larger than the A4 documents that it’s designed to scan and it’s only a couple of centimetres thick, too. Instead of looking like a clunky grey box, as many…
Corel – WordPerfect Family Pack 3
One of the best-selling collections of business applications is Microsoft’s Works Suite and it looks as if Corel wants a slice of the action. In the same way that Microsoft combined related but separate applications into its Works Suite product, Corel has added extras onto the core of the WordPerfect Suite to make up the…
Evesham.com – Axis 1800+ Ti5
You’ve probably noticed that AMD recently broke with tradition and started naming its processors after ‘real world’ performance measurements rather than raw clock speed. The new Athlon processors launched under this scheme are known as Athlon XP chips. This machine from Evesham.com uses the 1800+ version of this processor and has a mixed range of…
Samsung – ML-1250 laser printer
Samsung started selling laser printers in the UK a couple of years ago and has carved itself a good niche in both the personal and business markets with its high-quality machines. The ML-1250 is at the lower end of its new range and is intended as a one-per-desk machine for printing text and graphics where…
UbiSoft – Conquest Frontier Wars
Aliens. Tsk. Who needs them? If the film industry, game industry, folklore and rabid rantings of naked rednecks who were plucked from their pickups in the middle of nowhere to be dumped back to earth covered in a suspiciously slimy, icky, gooey stuff are to be believed… we can’t trust ‘em. Better if we’re alone…
Swann – Wireless MicroCam
We’ve tried hard to think of a sensible, non-covert and non-sordid use for this little gadget, but we’ve failed. It’s a spy camera, pure and simple. So if you want to keep an eye on people, places or objects while you’re not in the room, either for security purposes or other reasons, this could be…
Adobe – Acrobat 5.0
Adobe’s PDF (portable document format) is a compact and efficient way of distributing product specifications, brochures and other formatted documents. It’s convenient because the file size is kept to a minimum, relatively complex page formatting is supported and the document can be viewed ‘inline’ when using newer Web browsers. To create PDF files you’ll either…
Sharp – PC-UM10 Muramasa
Named after a legendary Japanese swordsmith, the PC-UM10 Muramasa from Sharp is one of the thinnest notebooks currently available, and has been designed to compete with Sony’s Vaio range. Its brushed aluminium surfaces and magnesium alloy chassis, together with its weight of only 1.3kg, give it a stylish look and feel. To get to such…