Monthly Archives: February 2005
FujiFilm – FinePix F440
Slim, stylish and lightweight, FujiFilm’s FinePix F440 is a 4-megapixel camera and, while it has a couple of features that set it apart from the opposition, it uses a standard CCD sensor rather than the SuperCCD that FujiFilm has used in a good number of its other cameras. Measuring just 74.5 x 6.3 x 21.3mm…
Vivendi Universal – Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay Developer’s Cut
It’s perhaps a lazy way to open a review of a game based on a movie by stating the following, but here goes anyway. Games based on movies are rarely any good. Whilst occasionally the odd decent effort crops up, the gaming graveyard is littered with the virtual corpses of those that could cope on…
Quicomm – GURL Watcher
GURL Watcher is one of those small, simple but effective utilities that deserves to do well. It provides anyone concerned about the Internet habits of their family or staff with the means to unobtrusively monitor browsing, but with none of the cost or administrative headache usually associated with such policing. Unlike many Internet control applications,…
MP3RingToneFactory.com – MP3 Ringtone Factory
Given that plenty of companies will happily relieve you of a couple of quid for a new mobile phone ringtone, a simple software application that can help you make your own could have substantial appeal. It’s a thought shared by the team behind MP3 Ringtone Factory, which is a program that keeps things as simple…
Adobe – Acrobat 7 Professional
The Portable Document Format, PDF to its friends, has arguably been Adobe’s finest gift to the computing world. Yet now that its PDF creation package, Acrobat, has reached the seventh incarnation in its comparably brief life-span, the argument runs that there are only so many more improvements that the firm can make to the software….
Aopen – i855 GMEm-LFS
Desktop processors have been used in notebooks for quite some time, especially in desktop replacement designs, but rarely if ever does the reverse happen, at least not in the consumer market. AOpen’s latest board, the i855 GMEm-LFS, is set to buck that trend. So why would anyone want to put a mobile CPU in a…
Aigo – F660
Style is very much at the top of Aigo’s agenda. So while our review model of its latest flash MP3 player may only have 128MB of on-board storage space, it’s wrapped up so stylishly that it’s hard not to be impressed. The stars of the show are undoubtedly the display and the all-round aesthetics. When…
Deep Silver – Scrapland
American McGee may sound like the name of some sort of bear wrestler, or possibly a third rate superhero, but in actual fact he’s a game designer who was involved with the goliath id software. Since his id days, he’s been working on his own brand of what can best be described as weird games,…
MV – Mobeus AV
Breaking with the ritualistic structure of how reviews are supposed to go, we’re going to start with the criticisms here. The reason for this clearly radical approach will shortly become clear. The Mobeus AV is a laptop that doesn’t lend itself to anyone with big hands. Its thumbpad lacks a ridged edge, meaning your fingers…
HP – Photosmart 2610
HP’s latest all-in-one deserves the title more than most, as its full set of functions include printing, scanning, copying in colour or greyscale and faxing. It also has a full set of slots for 11 different types of camera memory card, so can be used to print digital photos independently of a PC. The smart…