Monthly Archives: June 2006
Focus Multimedia – Marcus Trescothick Cricket Coach
Given the raging success that the resurgent International Cricket Captain has been enjoying over the past twelve months or so, it’s not surprising to see Focus Multimedia poke their head above the parapet with a cricket management title too. Our only surprise is that the field is currently still quite thin, with EA Sports’ cricket…
Sage – Start-Up
Sage may be a big name in corporate accounting but the company has had a hard time recruiting start-up businesses to its ranks, never mind the receipts-in-a-shoebox and heads-in-the-sand brigades. Actually, it’s easy to have sympathy with those in business who ignore their accounts, because bookkeeping is probably the most tedious aspect of running a…
Kingston Technology – U3 DataTraveller smart drive 2GB
USB flash drives are great, aren’t they? You pop your files onto one, drop it into your pocket, and then get to the files from any computer with a USB port. Unless, of course, you happen to lose the USB flash drive, in which case, well, your files are lost too. That might not be…
Nero – PhotoShow Deluxe 4
Computer programs are a bit like butlers. Some are rather old, scruffy looking, unpresentable beggars who are past their best. Others simply don’t provide a very good service, taking so long to serve the digital soup that it becomes cold. And of course, there are those that do other things with the digital soup that…
Namco – Namco Museum
Some people celebrate their 50th birthday with a cake, and perhaps a party attended by relatives they’re really not that keen on. If you’re a producer of games, though, your celebration takes the form of what will no doubt become the time-honoured fashion. You release a cash-in product and hope the nostalgia factor pays dividends….
Canon – LaserShot LBP5200
A colour laser printer for £200 still takes a minute or two to come to terms with; a few years back you’d be looking at 10 times that price. Even so, to get the purchase price this low has meant a couple of corners being trimmed. The most obvious of these is the lack of…
G Data – AntiVirusKit Internet Security 2006
European Anti-Virus (AV) companies are looking to the UK more and more as a market. First we had Panda from Spain and now we have the German G Data, with its AntiVirusKit Internet Security 2006, marketed here by CompuTrolley. It appears to have quite a lot to offer. The core of this suite is its…
HP – Officejet 6310
Hewlett-Packard is one of only a handful of printer manufacturers in the UK who have consistently produced reliable machines, so when HP brings out a new all-in-one it’s definitely time to sit up and take notice. The Officejet 6310 combines the usual printer facilities with fax, copy, scan and photo functions and enables both networking…
Asus – PhysX P1
This is a review of the Asus PhysX P1 PCI card with 128MB of RAM, but that immediately raises the question; “What the heck is a PhysX card?” When you play a game, the CPU and graphics chip have a number of tasks to perform. The CPU loads the game, controls the artificial intelligence of…
Eidos – Rogue Trooper
The most recent, and most ambitious, attempt to bring a character from the pages of the 2000AD comic to gamers’ attention didn’t really have the desired effect. Dredd vs Death – now available for just a penny shy of a fiver – took the comic’s most infamous character and tied him to a console-esque first-person…