Monthly Archives: July 2006
Olivetti – MY_WAY
About 25 years ago, Olivetti was one of the pioneers of ink-jet printing, but since then it has been overshadowed by other manufacturers. It’s now getting back into the flow, though, with the introduction of the MY_WAY, a novel photo printer with equally novel typography. This printer is available solely through Argos in the UK….
Gigabyte – GA-M59SLI-S5
Although overshadowed by the same-day launch of AMD’s latest Socket generation, the AM2, Nvidia’s latest chipset, the nForce 5, is the company’s most powerful to date. Both of them come together on Gigabyte’s new GA-M59SLI-S5, which uses the most powerful nForce 5 chipset – the 590 SLI – and, as befits any flagship Gigabyte board,…
SanDisk – Sansa e270
I made myself a promise before starting to write this review not to mention the best known, flash-based, multi-gigabyte portable music player in the world. You know the one I mean. The Sansa e200 series comes in three capacities – the 2GB e250 costs £119, the 4GB e260 costs £149 and my review model, the…
Focus Multimedia – Family Tree Legends Starter Edition
Promising you four simple steps – Organize, Create, Archive, Share – to record your family history, Family Tree Legends Starter Edition isn’t a bad way to start charting your ancestry. It won’t do much of the tracking-down work for you, although for that there are superb Web sites out there waiting to help, but it…
Codemasters – Sensible Soccer 2006
It’s already started. Read the early advance word on this latest attempt to bring Sensible Soccer kicking and screaming up to date, and phrases such as “it hurts us to say it” and “we don’t enjoy telling you this bit” give you some flavour of the fiercely loyal fanbase the original game enjoys. But this…
Toshiba – TDP-T9
It’s easy to get blasé about projectors, especially now that they are so commonplace in homes and offices. But we’ve reviewed many projectors over the years, and they are definitely not all created equal. Some are noisy, some suffer from ghosting, others have brightness inconsistencies, and so on and so forth. Generally we find, as…
Samsung – SCX-4200
Samsung’s SCX-4200 is an unusual beast; a multifunction device based around a mono laser engine, rather than a colour inkjet. It’s intended for home office or small office use, where colour output isn’t as important as low running costs and speedy print. The machine is compact and squat, with a footprint not much larger than…
Iomega – Rev Drive
There are cheaper ways to back up your data than with Iomega’s Rev drive. Selling for just north of £200, and with a 35GB cartridge disk coming in at around the price of a 40GB hard drive (just over £35), it’s an easy product to dismiss just on economic grounds. And yet it stands its…
Ulead – VideoStudio 10 Plus
It’s not an uncommon conclusion: reviewers of video editing software tend to shade the battle to Pinnacle’s wonderful Studio software over Ulead’s also-strong VideoStudio series. Yet given the former’s regular trouble with the odd bug here and there, Ulead finds itself in with a real chance to snatch the crown. And with VideoStudio 10, it…