Monthly Archives: December 2002
3Com – 11Mbps Wireless LAN OfficeConnect PC Card
Despite the long name, 3Com’s 11Mbps Wireless LAN OfficeConnect PC Card is actually a small and, in many respects, unremarkable product. Like a host of other Wi-Fi certified cards it conforms to the 802.11b Wireless Ethernet specification, which means it can be used to connect to any similarly specified wireless LAN. And it’s a PC…
Matrox – RT.X10
The Matrox RT.X10 is a hardware and software video editing solution for high-end PCs. It combines an expansion card, designed to boost video capture and editing performance, with a full copy of Premiere, Adobe’s semi-professional video editing suite. The latest in a long line of PC-based editing cards from Matrox, including the RT2000 and RT2500…
Zend – PHP Studio 2.5
PHP is now overtaking ASP as the most popular scripting language on the Web (according to Zend), and it’s odd to think of all those sites being developed with little more than a programmer’s text editor. In fact, many of the more advanced sites are developed using programming suites such as this one. Zend Studio…
Wanadoo – IronStorm
You know that lone Japanese guy, discovered on some remote Pacific island in the sixties (or thereabouts), who was convinced that the war was still going on? Well, Wanadoo reckons he was right. In fact, the First World War was still in full flood, according to IronStorm’s novel plot for this game. A slight historical…
Philips – Pocket Expanium 431
The Philips Pocket Expanium, like all its siblings, is an MP3 player which uses CD-R media. The difference is that this one is about half the size because it uses 8cm (21 minute / 185MB) CD-R media instead of the usual 12cm discs, and can hold about three hours of music in MP3 format. If…
Toshiba – SD-R5002 DVD writer
With the burgeoning market for DVD writers, it was about time we saw the first offering from Toshiba. The SD-R5002 supports both secure, write-once DVD-R General technology and rewriteable DVD-RW formats. Toshiba claims that 98 percent of existing DVD movie players and DVD-ROM drives will play DVDs created using the Toshiba SD-R5002 DVD-R format, compared…
3Com – 11Mbps Wireless LAN Access Point 2000
PCs equipped with wireless network adapters can communicate with each other directly, but for more than a handful an access point is required, such as 3Com’s Access Point 2000. This makes it possible for up to 128 wireless PCs to not only talk to each other, but also access resources such as servers, printers and…
Plextor – PX-320A DVD/CD-RW combo drive
Belgium is rather better known for its chocolate than for its IT industry, which is a little unfair on optical drive company Plextor. Over the years Plextor has produced IDE and SCSI CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives, and now it has a combo drive too. The PX-320A is an internal IDE drive rated at 20x…
Sony – Vaio C1MHP Picturebook
The original Sony Picturebook concept is about to enter its fourth year. The latest C1MHP model is the most ambitious iteration of the C1 form factor, which is characterised by a wide-screen 8.9-inch display and a rotating digital camera built in to the screen bezel. An upgrade of the C1MGP model introduced in the spring,…
Creative – SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Platinum
Creative has refreshed its all-conquering Audigy soundcard and given the series the witty and humorous name of Audigy 2. At present you can buy a basic Audigy 2 or this Platinum version, and very soon there will be an EX model too, but at the heart of all three products there is the Audigy 2…