Monthly Archives: October 2001
Cisco – Aironet 350 Series WLAN
Whether or not you subscribe to the view that 802.11 and its successors have ridden the coat-tails of Bluetooth hype, it’s certainly true that the IEEE’s wireless networking protocols have seen much more of the limelight since late 1999. Here’s one powerful but expensive WLAN (wireless local area network) solution using 802.11b. The Aironet 350…
Atlas – Meridian A1400
AMD’s advance into the business sector continues with this machine from Atlas, which is aimed at companies looking to bulk-buy desktop PCs for their employees. The midi-tower case of this machine has a tool-free cover that can be removed in seconds – a padlock ring at the rear can be used to prevent unauthorised people…
Digital Workshop – Trumpton Camberwick Green Fun Pack
“Time goes by when you’re the driver of a train, steaming into Trumpton with a cargo of co…” Ah, hang on a minute, wrong lyrics. Yes, it’s Trumpton, Gordon Murray’s genius in stop-motion form, with characters, games, trivia and video clips from Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley. A trip down Nostalgia Avenue beckons. For those…
Hauppauge – WinTV PVR
TV tuner cards have always had a mixed reception (if you’ll pardon the pun) in the UK. While many can see the advantages of a PC – particularly a home PC – that can double as an extra TV, there’s the hassle of wiring up a second room with an aerial feed and the temptation…
Panasonic – DVD Burner
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding DVD authoring, mainly because of the two competing standards. The first of these is DVD-R, for ‘write-once’ media that can then be used with consumer DVD players and DVD-ROM drives, while the second is DVD-RAM, which allows re-writing and which is of more use in data applications (backup, archiving,…
Xara – Webstyle 2
Designing graphics for Web pages is not easy. Getting the right balance between file size (and therefore download speed) and quality is hard enough, while matching colours and creating a clean navigation system is considerably harder. As you can tell, it’s not something we’ve mastered here at IT Reviews – content definitely takes precedence over…
Belkin – AC Anywhere Power Inverter
Losing power while you’re on the move can be a real pain. Batteries in mobile phones and notebook computers still don’t last particularly long and have a habit of dying at just the wrong moment. But if you’re travelling by car, there’s a ready source of power under the bonnet and this device from Belkin…
IDM Computer Solutions – UltraEdit
For the average computer user, Notepad and Wordpad are the only text editors required. But for more demanding users who, for example, need to edit and create HTML code, develop Perl, VisualBasic or C++ programs, or simply manipulate very large text files, something more is needed. We’ve played with numerous different text editors over the…
I&C Europe – MPmaster Wireless MP3 Player
If you like to take digital music with you when you travel, you’ll have considered buying an MP3 player. Small and neat they may be, but virtually all come with cables to connect the headphones to the player and possibly to a miniature remote control too. Not the MPmaster, though, which you wear around your…
Novatech – Encore DDR 1.4
For the most part, Novatech has chosen sensible components for this business PC, and that’s reflected in the low price of the machine. The company has opted for a midi-tower case, with a traditional design that means you’ll need a screwdriver to get inside. Security features are conspicuous by their absence – there’s no padlock…