Monthly Archives: June 2006
Brother – HL-5280DW
The HL-5280DW is the top model in the newly launched Brother HL-5200 family of business-oriented mono lasers. All offer fast printing (up to 28ppm) at up to 1,200dpi, with a range of paper handling and networking options including, on the HL-5280DW, built-in wireless connectivity. A 266MHz RISC processor provides the motive power to drive this…
Serif – MoviePlus 5
Home video editing makes most people think of Adobe, Ulead or Pinnacle, but there’s a home-grown product, from just outside Nottingham, which should also be in the frame. Serif’s MoviePlus 5 does most of what other home video editors do, but with a few extras of its own. MoviePlus 5 uses a well-designed editing screen…
Verbatim – Store ‘n’ Go USB HD Drive
Do you remember the good old, bad old days, when a floppy disk was seen as the ideal solution to the problem of transporting data manually from computer to computer? Since then we’ve seen the rise and fall of the Zip disk and the coming of CD-R, DVD-R and the memory stick. The consistent aim…
Alienware – Aurora 7500 SLI
You know when an Alienware desktop thuds through the door that several facts will be taken as read: namely (a) this is going to be a heavy machine, (b) it’s going to be one of the coolest bits of kit you’ve ever seen and (c) some thought will have gone into cranking to the max…
HumanConcepts – OrgPlus 6
General purpose tools like Excel and PowerPoint are all very well, but for some tasks a more specialised application is better. So it is with organisational charts, for example, where OrgPlus 6 from HumanConcepts is both easier to use and offers greater functionality, including automated data import and publishing options. OrgPlus 6 is totally dedicated…
Sega – Condemned: Criminal Origins
Serial killers. They’re not all bad. Personally we’re not keen on “Special K” either, so a bit of breakfast bludgeoning is understandable in a way… ahh, wait a minute. Our introduction appears to have perpetrated an exceptionally awful gag. It needs to be arrested, now! Quick, it’s making off through the hole in this paragraph……
Asus – EAX1600XT Silent
With moves underway to make PCs more like white goods than beige boxes, the need for the internals of a PC to run as silently as possible has never been greater. One of the major causes of sudden, high-pitched screaming noises coming from your PC is the graphics card’s cooling fan, so let’s get rid…
Evesham Technology – T807 8-inch LCD TV
It is entirely likely that if you try to imagine an LCD TV you are going to think of something with a diagonal screen measurement of a bit more than eight inches. Scale your thoughts down to that dimension and you’ll be picturing Evesham’s mini LCD TV. The kit is self-assembly and comes in three…
LG – L203WT
For the past couple of years, TFT monitor manufacturers have made plenty of noise about the response time of their latest LCD panel. This used to be very important, as panels with a slow 25ms or 35ms response would suffer from horrible smearing that made it impossible to play games, but for the last year…