Monthly Archives: March 2007
GriSoft – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5
There’s little point reiterating the proliferation of online threats in the modern online world, so instead let’s look at the latest release of a popular remedy. GriSoft has, for many years, provided a free version of its popular anti-virus solution AVG, and it has done so again with the new 7.5 edition. The free edition,…
Sega – World Championship Snooker 2007
Can you sink the pink? Down the brown? Sack the black? Or think of any better snooker-related puns to begin a review with? Hopefully ones that don’t make you sound like Anne Robinson doing a Weakest Link ‘Pot Black’ special. Send your answers stitched into the back of a smart black waistcoat, please… But whether…
Sapphire – Radeon X1650 Pro Ultimate Edition
Sapphire already has a reputation for producing fast, overclocked graphics cards based on ATI designs, and is well on the way to getting the same reputation when it comes to silently-cooled cards, with several designs in the product line-up already. One of the latest additions to this range is the Radeon X1650 Pro Ultimate, based…
PNY – XLR8 GeForce 8800GTS
PNY might not be a familiar name to some, but it has been around since 1985 and is one of Nvidia’s authorised board partners. As well as offering consumer Nvidia cards it also produces cards for the professional market. With the launch of Nvidia’s latest G80 GPU comes a new product family for PNY, namely…
JoWood – The Mark
The plot of this first-person shooter revolves around terrorists who have acquired a tactical nuke. They’re taking it closer to London on board a ship, because it’s only a short-range missile and… oh, it’s all too insufferable to dwell on, really. The gist is that only two people in the world can abort the launch…
Linksys – NSLU2
The Linksys NSLU2, affectionately known as ‘the Slug’ to many of its fans, is a low-cost and compact network attached storage (NAS) device. It comes with two USB sockets and one Ethernet port and is designed to allow the connection of two USB hard disks (or USB flash drives) to a wired LAN for easy…
Logitech – FreePulse Wireless
Portable music has certainly come a long way since it consisted of lugging your boom-box around on your shoulder. The walkman was a revelation, although it was still a little bulky for jogging. Then the MP3 player came along, and these days you can have a gadget the size of a stick of gum playing…
Xara – Xtreme Pro
The Windows platform suffers no shortage of graphics software, but Xara always offers something special that lifts its products clear of the seething mass of competition. The new Xara Xtreme Pro is another good example. It’s one of the very few high-end drawing programs on the market that approaches PDF output with a level of…
Mesh – Elite E6600 Express
If you’re thinking about upgrading your complete system, or buying an off-the-shelf Vista machine, then Mesh’s Elite E6600 Express isn’t a bad place to start, offering a decent blend of features, hardware and price. Housed in the traditional, black and silver, midi-tower Mesh case, the Elite E6600 Express is, as you might expect from the…
Imaginova – Starry Night Enthusiast 6
“This is Major Tom to ground control… I’m stepping through the door… And I’m floating in a most peculiar way… And the stars look very different today… There’s this wibbly, swirly, white thing underneath Ursa Major… Can anyone tell me what it is?” You would expect the boffins at NASA to be able to clarify…