Monthly Archives: July 2004
Disk housekeeping utilities group test
SystemWorks really does do the works. As well as Ghost, covered elsewhere in this group test, the suite includes Norton Anti-Virus, Utilities, Password Manager, GoBack and CleanSweep, as well as WebTools and numerous other little helpers. Some of these utilities are self-explanatory, with Norton Anti-Virus, for example, being one of the best-known forms of protection…
Sony – DRU-700A
As members of the DVD+RW Alliance, Sony has been at the forefront of DVD recording innovation; first to market with Dual Format drives – the DRU-500A – and now the first Double Layer drive; the DRU-700A. Double Layer DVD-ROMs have been around for a while but it’s only recently that the technology has been applied…
Lexmark – X5250 All-in-One
It would appear that Lexmark wants to dominate the printer market in terms of sheer number of different products. The company is pumping out a seemingly never-ending stream of new products; one of the latest is yet another addition to the All in One product line; the X5250. A popular choice where space is limited…
Ricoh – Caplio GX
Ricoh is not one of the best-known digital camera makers, but it has released several effective and novel models and now has a considerable range, from fun compact cameras to high resolution semi-pro tools. The Caplio GX is towards the upper end of the range and sports a 5.1-megapixel CCD and 16MB of internal memory….
Sapphire – Radeon X800 Pro
Today’s high end games demand more and more from graphics cards, with both the two main chip producers, ATI and Nvidia, forever raising the bar in terms of sheer performance and features, leading to a bewildering choice of cards for your red-hot gaming system. Sapphire’s latest top-end card (for this month at any rate) is…
Mozilla – Firefox
Given the steady stream of security alerts associated with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, it should come as no surprise that many organisations and end users are actively looking at alternative browsers. However, for many users Internet Explorer is so intricately bound with Windows and their experience of the Web that the idea of looking at an…
LaCie – Datawatch USB2
The demise of the floppy drive has been predicted for about ten years now, and PCs without floppies are finally becoming more common. The replacement is the memory drive (flash disk, pen drive, call it what you will); a flash memory chip in a small case with a USB plug sticking out of one end….
Ability Plus Software – Ability Office 4 Professional
Ability Office (last reviewed here) has, for many years now, been pitched as the low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office. With a sub-£50 retail price, its suite of programs has always matched Microsoft’s market leader in terms of basic functionality, and slowly but surely Ability Plus Software has made inroads into the market. Ability Office 4,…
Evesham – Voyager X5 PM17
Evesham’s new Voyager X5 gains instant cachet by having one of Intel’s new breed of Pentium M (‘Dothan’) processors, but as we were to find out, it has more to offer than a fast CPU. And fast it is, primarily because of its enlarged on-die Level 2 cache, now standing at 2MB; double the size…
Qualcomm – Eudora 6.1.2
Think e-mail software and the chances are you think Outlook, or Outlook Express, either of which you might have obtained for free in various ways. Getting software for free is not the only reason to use it, of course, but it can make a more attractive proposition than buying software. But weigh up its free-of-charge…