Monthly Archives: February 2003
Opera Software – Opera 7
We’ve reviewed earlier versions of the Opera Web browser. In fact we first reviewed version 3. It’s come a long way since then, but the basic premise remains the same; Opera is a compact, full-featured browser that has been designed to be fast, with excellent accessibility options and an accurate rendering engine. What has changed…
McAfee – Parental Controls
The World Wide Web is chock-full of sites on every possible topic, and quite a few cover specialised and disturbing subjects. We’re talking extreme political views, anarchy, drugs and lots and lots of porn. It makes little sense to tell your kids that they can’t use the Internet and it is quite impractical to watch…
UbiSoft – Scrabble 2003 Edition
When it comes to board games, often our fathers have taught us everything we know – namely, how to cheat! Playing Monopoly with your son is apparently an open invitation to nominate yourself as banker, as the responsible adult, and then proceed to squirrel away hundreds of pounds in a cache underneath Oxford Street, ready…
Canon – SmartBase MPC200 Photo
Many things in life only have one use. Then there are those that have absolutely no use at all – ornamental china kittens, for example. And in contrast, there are those greedy bodies that claim a plethora of uses, such as this multi-functional device from Canon. The SmartBase MPC200 Photo is a 2400 x 1200dpi…
MediaGold – DaviDeo 2 Professional
For the past few years it’s been possible to download programs from the Web which allow you to ‘rip’ the contents of DVD movies and store them on your hard drive, sometimes in a more compressed form. Such programs have lurked in the murkier area of legality, anonymously avoiding the watchful eyes of movie studio…
Serif – PhotoPlus 8
It’s about time people stopped treating PhotoPlus as a simple photo editing application. While it’s certainly true that it can perform all kinds of editing and effects on photo images, there’s a lot more to it than this. PhotoPlus 8 adds a host of new features, to make the program equally suited to preparing all…
FujiFilm – FinePix A204 Zoom
A sub-£200 digital camera with this specification would have been unthinkable a year ago. Prices continue to fall and the FinePix A204 Zoom from Fujifilm has an impressive feature list. It starts with a 2-megapixel CCD array, so the camera can capture high-resolution images at up to 1,600 by 1,200 pixels, and adds to this…