Monthly Archives: June 2004
Electronic Arts – Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter has, to date, fared surprisingly well when it comes to computer games. If you can allow your memory to scrub the simplistic and shallow ‘Quidditch World Cup’ release of last Christmas, you’d be hard pushed to say that the titles, tied closely to the films, have disappointed their target audience. And as this…
Xerox – One Touch 4800TA
If the One Touch product name seems familiar to you but not associated with Xerox, then don’t worry – your mind is not playing tricks on you. Visioneer has a trademark licensing agreement with Xerox to produce a line of Xerox-branded scanners for the home or small office. And if you are familiar with the…
Creative – MuVo TX
One of the most heavily competitive accessory markets at the moment has to be for the portable music player, which has recently had the quality bar raised by the arrival of Apple’s iPod. But for those without lots of cash to spare, who’d like to combine a modest music collection with a USB Flash drive…
£499 PCs group test
Microland has produced a well-styled system with black and silver livery throughout. The look goes right through to the Logitech keyboard and wireless mouse, which keep things neat and tidy on the desktop. It’s just as good-looking inside, too. This is another system based around an Athlon XP 2500+ processor, again with 512MB of memory…
Steganos – Secure Filesharing 6
It’s always fascinating to see the way that applications such as this are marketed. In the same way as the raft of DVD ‘backup’ utilities that came to market recently, Steganos Secure Filesharing 6 has some nice ways of presenting its work, even though we’re all aware that there are, in the minds of some,…
PalmOne – Zire 72
PalmOne now has two distinct PDA ranges: the Tungstens, aimed primarily at the business user: and the Zires, which are targeted more at consumers. At the top end of the Zire range sits this new Zire 72, a follow-up to the Zire 71, whose sliding case hid a built-in digital camera. PalmOne has decided that…
Mercury – CyberPix S-450V
Our initial impressions of the Mercury CyberPix S-450V digital camera weren’t very favourable, as the image resolution was on the lowest setting of a choice of 1,024 x 768, 2,048 x 1,536 and 2,560 x 1,920 pixels. Although increasing the resolution bumped up the file size from a typical 160KB to just over 1MB, the…
Kyocera Mita – Ecosys FS3830-N
Laser printing technology is pretty well established, with most manufacturers employing throw-away cartridges containing not just toner, but expensive imaging and developer components too. Not so Kyocera Mita, which bucks this trend to make its printers a lot cheaper to run. As is the case with the Ecosys FS3830-N, which brings quoted costs down to…
Toshiba – Portégé A100
Rather than follow the more usual design path and create an ultra-portable with no drives bar a hard disk, and about two ports to its name, Toshiba has tried a slightly different approach with the Portégé A100. Instead of being 20mm thick, the A100 measures 35mm with the lid shut, which is much the same…