Monthly Archives: March 2005
HP – Photosmart 8450
This is one of the biggest home photo printers marketed by HP and includes the company’s latest eight-colour print technology. It can print borderless pages up to A4 and works with or without a PC to print photos from several different sources. The printer is designed along the same lines as previous HP inkjets, with…
Sipura – SPA-3000
There are several ways of using Voice over IP (VoIP) to make cheap phone calls via a broadband Internet connection. Some require a PC, others a specialised router or dedicated IP phone. Then there’s the Sipura SPA-3000, an adapter which lets you use an ordinary home or office phone to make and receive VoIP calls….
Acronis – TrueImage 8
Maintaining a backup image of your Windows installation is a useful security measure, and TrueImage 8 aims to make this task as straightforward as possible, even for non-technical users. It can create and save images of your hard drive partitions from within Windows, but you restore them from the program’s own operating system. This ensures…
Xerox – Phaser 5500
You can buy a desktop mono laser for little more than the cost of a toner cartridge these days, but if you want to share it on a network you’ll need something a lot quicker. You’ll also want a more robust printer capable of producing quality documents time after time, with minimal downtime for maintenance….
Atari – GTR
Broadly speaking, there are two types of racing games; the arcade affair and the simulation. The former is for those who like to experience the raw thrill of the tarmac flashing under their bonnet, squealing around corners at stupid speeds, whilst the latter is all about full race weekends with testing, setting up the car…
PCI Express graphics cards group test
Although AGP isn’t yet a dead technology for graphics cards, it’s rapidly moving on to the endangered list as PCI Express grows in popularity. Motherboards that support PCI Express have a large chunk of data bandwidth assigned to this new bus which is usually divided up into 20 lanes. Of these 20 lanes, 16 are…
Asus – A6000
The first thing that strikes you about this sleek and practical notebook is that it means business, both for the travelling professional who wants to keep in touch with base and clients, and for the more serious gamer who wants to see the fear in the eyes of the opposition! Powered by an Intel Pentium…
GrassHopper – PageStream V5
A long time ago, when Windows were for cleaning not double-clicking, and lasers were something only referred to in episodes of Star Trek or very expensive Apple dealerships, a small American company by the name of Soft Logik launched a desktop publishing program for a low-cost Mac clone called the Atari ST. Its program, Publishing…