Monthly Archives: May 2005
Ceratech – Zboard with World of Warcraft Key-set
It’s possible to buy a gaming mouse. And a fantastically expensive precision mousing surface for it. Then there are all manner of weird and wonderful gaming peripherals which sort of look like joysticks, but are actually some kind of ergonomic claw which is guaranteed to up your “fraggage” by 10 percent in Doom 3 (honest,…
PalmOne – Treo 650
If you’ve been weighing up your Smart phone options you’ll have realised that there are many sub-species. Broadly these fall into three camps: phones with some capability to manage your diary and run third-party software; PDAs that have telephony features built-in; and true hybrids that look like neither a phone nor a PDA, which integrate…
AMD – dual-core Opteron and Athlon 64 X2
AMD has had a busy few weeks announcing and releasing a whole raft of dual-core processors. The first wave of products came on the 21st of April when it released three dual-core Opterons in the 8xx series, which are for 1-8 way servers. AMD has continued to use its existing Opteron model code system so…
Nokia – 7710
Here we go at last! Nokia’s 7710 has appeared, making the Symbian Series 90 platform a reality and, maybe, taking the whole concept of multimedia-focussed handsets onto a new level. If you are up with the Symbian OS jargon you’ll already know that Series 90 is a development of Series 80, the operating system aimed…
Logitech – io2 Digital Writing System
There’s something totally captivating about the idea of writing onto paper and having your words of wisdom automatically translated into machine readable (and editable) text. Logitech has already had one stab at bringing to market a pen and digitisation package to perform this feat, and has recently produced an updated version. The Logitech io2 Digital…
Focus – Beyond Good & Evil, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Chessmaster 9000, Pirates of the Caribbean
Not since the days of the Spectrum and Commodore 64 has a tenner got you so far where gaming is concerned. For in spite of the £30+ price tags that brand new releases attract, it’s generally a year or so before you can pick up those titles at a third of the price. Focus Multimedia,…
Inkjet Multi-Function Devices group test
Our final MFD is the Lexmark X7170. It is absolutely huge and is the heaviest unit in this group by nearly one kilo, and getting it out of the box and on to the desk is something of a struggle. Once you’ve got it all plugged in you’ll probably be taken aback by the huge…
Magix – Ringtone Maker
Sometimes a software company comes up with an excellent idea and then does something irritating that shoots itself in the foot. That’s what’s happened here with Magix’s Ringtone Maker, a package that theoretically allows you to take any of your tunes and turn them into a ringtone for your compatible mobile phone. Where the developers…
Cardmedia – Biodisk 2.0
At first glance this little unit looks just like any other USB flash drive. It’s small and light, pulls apart into two sections to reveal the USB connector, and is available in a range of storage capacities. Look a little closer, though, and you might wonder about the purpose of the bronze-coloured square in the…