Monthly Archives: November 2005
Bolidesoft – All My Movies
Cataloguing your DVD collection with the aid of All My Movies isn’t a fast process. It’s quite feasible that if you have a collection of, say, 200 movies, there’s a few hours’ work required to get them into the program’s database. And let’s face it, a program that keeps an up-to-date list with supplementary details…
Asus – A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Asus is one of the first motherboard manufacturers to use the new Nvidia nForce4 SLI X16 chipset which supports AMD Athlon 64 processors in its Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe. The original Nvidia nForce4 SLI chipset had a total of 20 PCI Express lanes with 16 lanes dedicated to the primary graphics card and four lanes left…
Xplosiv – Taito Legends
The current trend for shovelling old games en masse onto a disc shows little sign of slowing, with a Yuletide release roster that throws up classic packs from the likes of Capcom, Midway, Sega and Namco, to name just a few. Yet the ‘shovelware’ aspect is something that’s an increasing minefield. Take the newly-released Midway…
ACDSystems – ACDSee 8
A natural by-product of the boom in digital photography is having to sit through yet more tedious photos taken by a snap-happy relative. For without the expense of film processing, people are taking more pictures than ever before. Unsurprisingly, a little cottage industry in the software market has sprung up, with tools that either edit…
Gateway – eMachines E4020
American PC manufacturer Gateway, which recently took over the eMachines brand, has launched a couple of desktop PCs in the UK that are designed for buyers with a fairly limited budget, yet who still want to be able to make the most of the multimedia side of computer enjoyment. The eMachines E4020 is the slightly…
HP – Pavilion ZV6179AE
Around this time of year, interest is high in cheap, portable computers that can still pack a punch whilst also offering entertainment possibilities. To that end, HP has recently refreshed some of its range of consumer PCs and notebooks, including the Pavilion ZV6100 series, of which this laptop is one. The Pavilion ZV6179E is a…
Activision – Call of Duty 2
Many of the key improvements and evolutions of Call Of Duty 2 over the original have been well charted already. We’ll come to them shortly. But let’s throw convention out of the window and start with something smaller, yet equally significant. For Call Of Duty 2 has done away with two things; quick save and…
Photo editors and photo managers group test
Photoshop is the best known photo editing application in the world and it was a bit of inspired thinking by Adobe to introduce a cut-down version of the software at something like a tenth of Photoshop’s price. Now in version 4, Photoshop Elements introduces some useful extras into what is already a strong mix of…
Acer – AL1951
19-inch LCD monitors are rapidly becoming the standard for serious office or graphics professional use. Acer’s latest device in this category, the AL1951, is a no-frills device at a good price, rather than a high-end screen with all the bells and whistles. It’s decked out smartly, with the screen surround in black and the good-looking…