Monthly Archives: April 2001
Montparnasse Multimedia – The Louvre: Virtual Visit
The Louvre is without doubt the world’s most impressive greenhouse, although it’s depressingly bereft of fruit and veg produce. What were those foolish Parisian architects thinking…? Apparently there’s a few reasonably famous doodlings underneath it, though. The Louvre, in all seriousness, is a rather impressive museum – obviously that’s a subjective assessment, although it can’t…
Tiny Computers – MediaBook 1000
Notebook PCs have always packed rather less punch than their desktop box counterparts, due mainly to the restrictions of space and the cost of miniaturisation. But Tiny – incidentally the UK’s largest indigenous PC company – has come up with a notebook PC, the MediaBook 1000, that appears to narrow the gap considerably. The MediaBook…
Take 2 Interactive – Serious Sam
Hmm… Serious Sam is an odd name for a video game character. Sounds like one of Desperate Dan’s long lost relatives. There’s probably a large family of alliterative heroes out there somewhere; you can just imagine the re-union… “It’s good to see you again, Sam. Fancy a slice of cow pie? Heard anything from Incontinent…
Corporate PCs group test
No corporate PC group test would be complete without a system from Big Blue and, since we strive for completeness, here it is. Built to the normal high quality we’ve come to expect from the IBM corporate factory, the NetVista A40p wouldn’t win any prizes in the looks department, but it has all the security…
IBM – NetVista X40
For those among you with limited desk space, the latest version of the all-in-one NetVista range, the X40, may be worth a gander. It may look like an LCD panel with a larger than normal stand, but in fact it’s a well-specified PC, with all the hardware components tightly packed into the back of the…
Xara – Xara X
For the last few years, Xara came under the auspices of Corel, but now, as before, it’s published by the company of the same name, Xara. This means that the full product name is Xara Xara X, which sounds like an ‘adult’ film star but is actually an accomplished yet compact illustration tool. By compact…
Focus Multimedia – The Interactive Space Encyclopaedia
It must be said that Focus likes its space titles – it wasn’t that long ago that the company unleashed RedShift 4 on us. This program, however, is very different in tack, presenting an encyclopaedic overview of the history of space exploration, rather than detailed star charts and solar event calendars. The encyclopaedia is fronted…
Amacom – Baby CDRW
Amacom is a company that likes playing around with removable storage; witness the Flipdisk gadget. The Baby CDRW is based on the same idea – removable storage with various different interfaces – but as the name suggests, this drive uses a CD-rewriter mechanism rather than a hard drive. Why would you need such a thing?…
NEC – LT155 projector
Where projectors are concerned, ‘portable’ used to mean anything with a carry case – and often such cases were effectively large suitcases – but the last few years have seen dimensions shrink while brightness and feature counts increase. NEC’s latest foray into this market is represented by the LT155. With dimensions that give it a…
Baltimore Technologies – MailSweeper 4.2 for SMTP
E-mail viruses. Can’t stop people writing them, can’t trust users not to click on any attachment that purports to contain porn, money or a profession of undying love. So what can you do? Security patches for Microsoft Outlook are available, but few IT departments have the time to install them on every user’s PC. There…