Monthly Archives: January 2004
Global WIN – SilentStream cooler
SilentStream is a water cooling system for your PC. For many people, the idea of introducing anything containing water inside the box of their PC may cause sweaty palms, but Global WIN has thought of this by pre-filling the system, so that in its simplest installation you don’t have to add water to make it…
Digisette – Duo.DX
MP3 players based on solid-state memory come in all shapes and sizes, but none has a more interesting shape than the Digisette. The Duo.DX is the top model in the range, all of which look like metal-cased audio cassettes. This isn’t just the design gimmick, as the player works intimately with any cassette player or…
Atari – Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes
It’s astonishing the appeal that the Dungeons & Dragons series has had, from its pen-and-paper origins to videogame super-stardom. And it’s a measure of that success that Atari has now brought out another chapter exclusively for the Xbox. For fans of the old Gauntlet and the more recent Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, this will be…
InterVideo – Home Theatre
The latest buzz area of computing, dictated down from Bill Gates’ ivory towers, is media. More specifically in Microsoft’s case, Windows XP Media Center, a version of the operating system that’s designed to marry up functions such as watching television, listening to CDs, viewing a DVD or browsing images. Not surprisingly, with the bandwagon now…
Adobe – Photoshop Album 2
Not much time has elapsed between the launch of Adobe’s first Photoshop Album and this, its second. Bypassing even the annual update route, here there’s been a nine month gap, although arguably problems with the first release contributed to this haste. So is this one any more polished? Well, we’ll come to that shortly, after…
Microsoft – Wireless Optical Desktop Executive Edition
Here’s a question for you. How much would you pay for a keyboard and mouse set? In days gone by, you might be tempted to stretch to £50 or £60, perhaps, assuming the right combination of features and comfort. Yet to have the pleasure of a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Executive Edition in front of…
Microsoft – Works Suite 2004
Some time ago we took a look at Corel’s WordPerfect Family Pack 5, a compilation of seven applications for a reasonable £65. For its comparable Works Suite 2004, Microsoft is asking twice as much and offering one less application. Yet like Corel’s product, it still offers strong value for money if you’re interested in the…
Handspring – Treo 600 Orange
It is not easy to produce a device that functions well as both a phone and a PDA. Many have tried, but few have come as close to success as Handspring has done with the Treo 600. The Treo 600 comes along after Handspring made a few false starts with earlier communicators, and just as…
Advent – 3618
Never shy when it comes to adopting the latest technology for the desktop arena, Advent has taken AMD’s 64-bit processor, the Athlon 64 3200+, and introduced it in this 3618 bare-bones PC. As there is very little (for that read ‘no’) 64-bit software available at present, perhaps investing in the 3618 is the ultimate act…
Sony – Clié PEG TJ35
Sony seems to pump out Palm-based PDAs as if its factory is about to be taken away by some off-world daemon and its contents vapourised. Hardly a month goes by without a new device appearing; recently we’ve had the ultra high-end PEG UX50, this rather more sedate entry-level machine and a less well-specified variant on…