Monthly Archives: February 2003
Selwyn Electronics – Bubble Effect Tower
The popularity of customised PCs continues to grow and is showing signs of moving out of the enthusiast/gamer market. Adding bells and whistles, or more appropriately flashing lights and windows to your PC won’t improve its performance, but could impress the other geeks on the block. If you’re contemplating building your own PC, you can…
Headlight Software – Lightning Download
Companies are increasingly selling software products over the Internet – it costs them much less in packaging and distribution costs and is usually cheaper for us, too. Even small applications can still take a long time to download, though, and if the connection gets broken, particularly on a dial-up link, Windows can’t usually re-establish it…
Canon – i850 Bubble Jet Printer
There was a time, a few years ago, when Canon was the poor relation of the photo printing industry. It’s products were OK, but nothing to write home about. Since then, the company’s products have improved immensely and the i850 is further evidence that Canon is once again a printing force to be reckoned with…
HP – LaserJet 1200N
HP’s latest 1200dpi (dots per inch), personal LaserJet printer series takes over from the popular 1100xi range, delivering faster printing than its predecessor. The network ready LaserJet 1200N is the most expensive in the range and is fitted with a 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet connection and HP’s JetDirect print server. The LaserJet 1200N uses a 90MHz…
Hemera – Photo Clip Art 100,000
This is not the most exciting or world-shattering piece of software on the planet, but it’s worth a quick review anyway. Most people will be familiar with clip art, the sort of thing that first appeared (probably) in early incarnations of WordPerfect and similar programs. The idea was that you could smarten up your document…
Electronic Arts – FIFA 2003
Lately, the FIFA football engine has been accused of stagnation. Rather like the defence of (insert your most hated football team here), it has been a largely inert affair. Last summer’s World Cup edition really wasn’t all that different to FIFA 2002, and although FIFA 2002 introduced some smart new innovations on top of the…
Western Digital – FireWire 120
How refreshing to review a product whose name nicely sums up its major properties. The FireWire 120 from Western Digital is a 120GB external hard drive that connects… wait for it… via the FireWire port. We’ve reviewed other external drives in the past, some of which sport USB and FireWire connections. The fact that this…
Fujitsu Siemens – Lifebook E2010
The latest addition to Fujitsu-Siemens’ Lifebook line is a traditional corporate notebook design. You get good old Intel inside – still perceived to be the more appropriate choice for business in some circles – and it’s what one beer advert calls ‘reassuringly expensive.’ Admittedly, the review sample is a top-of-the-range model, from its 2.4GHz Pentium…
Symantec – Norton Internet Security 2003
Norton is already considered one of the best providers of anti-virus software in the market. It also does a pretty good software firewall and to combine the two into one product, together with intrusion detection and some useful extra utilities, is a logical step. Norton Internet Security 2003 is precisely this product and offers protection…
Brother – HL-1440
If you have been thinking about buying a personal mono laser printer, now would be a good time to take the plunge, as prices are dropping while performance and quality are steadily going in the opposite direction. Brother’s latest laser printer, the HL-1440, is a good example of this; it’s fast and relatively cheap. The…