Monthly Archives: July 2003
Genicom – Intelliprint cL160
Colour laser printers are becoming as quick as their monochrome counterparts, almost as affordable and just as easy to use. So much so that even quite small businesses can now routinely choose a colour laser, like the Genicom Intelliprint cL160, over the more traditional mono laser and colour inkjet pairing. There are lots of colour…
Executive Software – Diskeeper Home Edition
The best things about this hard drive defragmenting tool are what it doesn’t do. It doesn’t get in the way of you working. It doesn’t require you to make a succession of decisions each time you want it to do its job. And it doesn’t take as long to defragment your hard drive as the…
Canon – PowerShot S50
Canon is aiming this new camera at what it calls ‘advanced amateurs’, which seems to fit the bill quite nicely. It’s not a professional camera – for a start it doesn’t have the option of huge, screw-in lenses and hot-shoe attachments – but it is some way above the conventional point-and-click fare, especially when it…
Mindscape – MovieShop Deluxe
Picture the scene. It’s late at night and you’re hunched over your keyboard, trying your amateur hand at movie producing. Smoke drifts lazily from a lit but untouched, half-ashen cigarette as you lovingly tinker with the central transitional frame of the third scene… “And the stomach explodes… now… hmm, where did I save that Alien…
IBM – ThinkVision L200p
Would it be going too far to suggest that the IBM ThinkVision L200p represents the future for PC displays? You might sincerely hope not, since it costs more than most entire desktop systems, with a suggested ex-VAT selling price of £1,233, but we’re not really talking about money here. The ThinkVision L200p has a 20.1-inch…
Cisco – Aironet 1200 series
Cisco’s Aironet 1200 is top of the very popular Aironet range of wireless network access points, and offers a real degree of future-proofing by simultaneously supporting both 2.4GHz (802.11b and 802.11g) and 5GHz (802.11a) wireless networking standards. It also supports single and dual band configurations. This modular design allows you to configure the Aironet 1200…
Atari – Enter The Matrix
In spite of all the flaws that stare you in the face after an hour or two of playing Enter The Matrix, the one criticism you can’t level at it is that it was rushed. Having being worked on in some form or other pretty much since the first film came out, you can only…
Indicii Salus – XenoMail
Sending an e-mail is a bit like sending a postcard, in that it can be read by all and sundry on its way from the sender to the recipient. Not, though, if you subscribe to XenoMail from Indicii Salus, a service that lets you encrypt messages so that only the intended recipients can read them….
Pentax – Optio S
It would be easy to start this review with the well-worn cliché about all good things and their predilection for small packages. However, when it comes to cameras, size really is important. If a model is too big or clunky it’s more likely to be left at home, while one that’s very small may be…
D-Link – DWL-900AP+ Access Point
The major problem with the popular 802.11b wireless ethernet standard is its relatively low speed of 11Mbps. The latest standards, 802.11g and 802.11a (11g uses the same 2.4GHz range as 11b, but with a data rate of 22Mbps, while 11a uses the 5GHz range with a data rate of 54Mps), go some way towards addressing…