Monthly Archives: August 2004
Sonic – MyDVD Studio Deluxe
With the plethora of media available to record sound and vision, there’s a real need for software that is especially friendly to the first-timer wanting to capture their favourite tunes, videos and presentations on disc. To this end, Sonic has created a package that will not only cover most possibilities but will also keep the…
Samsung – SyncMaster 710TM
The wonderfully slim world of the flat panel display has been moving in several directions of late in a bid to ensconce itself on more users’ desktops. Naturally, the biggest development is the fall in price over the last couple of years, meaning that you can now snare yourself a 17-inch screen like the SyncMaster…
Dell – Axim X30
Dell’s early Axims (the X5 series) set the PDA world abuzz because of their low cost, but they were large beasts. A hardware revamp came along for the next round of devices (the X3 series), so that low cost and neat design were coupled. For the third set of machines, the Axim X30 series, Dell…
HP – Photosmart R707
In the crowded digital photography market, the still camera that stands out from the herd will have to combine stylish looks, good picture quality and a host of technical wizardry with a reasonable retail price. Hewlett Packard has always had an eye for quality and with the Photosmart R707 the company is hoping to hit…
NEC – ND2510A
The previous model of NEC DVD writer was the ND-2500A with 8x speed on DVD+R/-R media and 4x speed on DVD+RW/-RW, so clearly the ND-2510A was going to be a minor update that added little or nothing to the ND-2500A. Oh how wrong can you be? The ND-2510A adds support for yet another type of…
ScanSoft – PDF Converter Professional 2
Adobe currently markets three editions of its Acrobat software for creating PDF documents, the cheapest being Acrobat Elements which costs £50 per seat as long as you purchase a minimum licence for 1,000 seats. ScanSoft’s PDF Converter Professional 2, at £50 again, does everything Acrobat Elements can do and a whole more. Far from just…
Sendo – X
The Sendo X has been a long time coming. Announced last November, we’ve finally got our hands on one of the first samples to hit the UK. What we see isn’t necessarily quite what you will get, though, as operators are able to customise the Sendo X to quite an extent. This smart phone runs…
Soltek – SL-75FRN2-RL
We all know that the Socket A AMD Athlon processor is due to be forcibly killed off in just a few months time, but until that happens there is a lively upgrade market for all you Duron and Athlon owners who don’t want to spend too much cash but who do still want a decent…
XFX – FX5200 Personal Cinema
A couple of years ago Nvidia was busy developing the fastest gaming graphics chips in the world so that it could take on the might of 3dfx, and at that time it seemed to be happy to leave mobile graphics and other niche areas to the competition. The result was that ATI had the Video…
Chaos League – Digital Jesters
It’s easy to sit back and scoff at the likes of Beckham. He gets thousands of pounds a day for turning up and having a kick about for an hour a week, not even including the dosh the beggar rakes in for preening himself with a particular brand of razor on national telly. Bah. Chaos…