Monthly Archives: April 2007
Corel – Painter X
Corel Painter is the leading ‘natural media’ painting program, which means that it attempts to simulate the use of physical watercolour and oil paints, ink, pencil, charcoal and pastel in an electronic form. It can be used with a mouse, but is better with a graphics pad and probably best with one of the LCD…
XenSource – XenServer for Windows
Talk to any expert about virtualisation and somewhere along the line they’ll mention open source technology from developer XenSource. Getting hold of Xen virtualisation software and putting it to practical use, however, has always been problematic, especially if you want to run Windows-based virtual machines. Until now, that is, with the release of XenServer for…
Canon – Digital IXUS 900Ti
Canon’s Digital IXUS range has to be one of the most prolific of recent times, as it was only a blink ago that the IXUS 800 and 850 IS were released. Its latest offspring has opted for more of a leap of style over content. You’ll know as soon as you open the box that…
MYOB – Accounting Plus v16
When last we looked at MYOB Accounting Plus we found it to be a very capable small business accounting package, best suited to users with existing bookkeeping expertise rather than complete beginners. Since then it’s been further updated, albeit with no real changes to the user interface or the need for basic accounting knowledge, but…
Playlogic – Infernal
All is not right in Heaven and Hell. For a start, renegade angel Ryan Lennox has been banished to Earth for breaking protocol and now the Devil wants to recruit him to even up the balance of good and evil forces. Plus there’s a suspicion that the Almighty may be planning to unleash a secret…
Samsung – YP-K3
Samsung’s YP-K3 is in the ‘thin and sleek’ class of mobile music players. The black fascia surrounded by a silver frame should appeal to those who are into minimalism in a big way, while the small and thin overall proportions are also attractive. At 96mm tall by 44mm wide, 6.95mm thick and 50g in weight…
Ascaron – Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
Interpreting dreams can be quite a simple matter. If you dream about getting on the wrong bus or train, for example, that’s probably your subconscious indicating that you’ve lost your way in life. If you dream of being in prison with your partner as a cell-mate, it could mean you feel trapped in your current…
MSI – NX8600GTS T2D256E OC
You can tell plenty from the model code of this new MSI graphics card. The ‘NX8600GTS’ part tells you that it uses the new Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS graphics chip along with 256MB of fast GDDR-3 graphics memory, while the ‘OC’ suffix flags up the fact that this is a factory overclocked graphics card. Nvidia launched…
Logitech – Audiostation Express
There’s no shortage of speakers and accessories for iPod users, with a range of companies appearing to adopt a strategy of catering for every possible audio environment. Logitech has a fair selection of iPod solutions itself, the newest of which is the Audiostation Express. Hitting the middle ground between dedicated solution and travel companion, the…
Adaptec – Snap Server 650
Plug a Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance into the LAN and you get instant access to shared storage, with none of the management hassles or licensing worries of a general purpose file server. But that doesn’t mean compromising capacity or performance, with Adaptec’s new Snap Server 650 more than a match for even highly-specified server…