Monthly Archives: September 2007
Kensington – FX500 Speaker To Go
In late 2006 Kensington released the FX300 Speaker To Go, an audio solution for your MP3 player that offered both a sturdy, splash-proof, shock-absorbing case and built-in speaker with an exterior volume control. It was a great little travel solution at a reasonable price, but has now been superseded by the larger, stereo sound FX500….
Avanquest – Identity Protector 2007
Identity Protector – known by the trendier name “GhostSurf Platinum” in the US – is a privacy protection suite that secures and encrypts your Internet connection to give an extra level of defence for those worried about issues such as online fraud. Also bundled alongside the main program is SpyCatcher, an anti-spyware utility that provides…
Mozilla Foundation – Seamonkey
One of the more significant open source projects of the last year or two, and another born out of the beast that was once Netscape, the thinking behind SeaMonkey is to bring together a collection of Web tools in one virtual basket. Thus, in one download, you have a Web browser, an e-mail client, an…
PNY – GeForce 8800 Ultra
Launched at just the right time to deflect people’s attention away from AMD’s long, long awaited R600 core, Nvidia confirmed its position as king of the hill by launching the fastest standard version of the G80 core to date; the GeForce 8800 Ultra. Slight tinkering with the efficiency of the 90nm core has allowed the…
EA – Rugby 08
If you’ve ever watched a game of rugby closely, you’ll probably have noticed several things. 1) The ball isn’t round, but that’s okay, because it matches the shape of the average player’s head. 2) Fly halves are complete liars who never actually fly. 3) At every rugby match, someone, somewhere in the crowd is inflating…
Chillblast – Fusion Nemesis
When Intel launched its quad core processors they were aimed at the enthusiast, costing so much money that the rest of us mere mortals could only look on and sigh. But thanks to some frankly insane price-slashing by Intel, the most popular quad core CPU – the entry level Q6600 – is now 50 percent…
HP – Pavilion Media Center m8070
The m8070 is a stylish addition to HP’s Pavilion Media Center range of PCs and features a quad core processor, 2GB of memory, plenty of storage for your media files and Vista Home Premium, all housed in a distinctive and compact black case. At the heart of the m8070 is one of Intel’s Q6600 Quad…
Google – Docs
If you’ve been misinformed, you might think that Google Docs is a site you can visit for medical advice to cure any ailments. Thorny problems such as: “Doctor, doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains, what should I do?” To which the obvious reply is: “Get out of my surgery you madman! And don’t…
Hi-Grade – Tachyon Q6600
If you know your Intel product codes then you will know by the code number of Hi-Grade’s Tachyon which CPU it uses. For the rest of us (i.e. the non-anoraks), it’s powered by Intel’s entry model quad core processor, the Q6600. The Q6600 – or, to give it its full name, Intel Core 2 Quad…
Motorola – Q 9h
You might know Motorola for its flat-keyboard mobile phones aimed at the consumer and, most recently, for its banana-shaped Z8 slider phone, but the company has also branched out into the Smartphone world with the Q 9h (which you will also see referred to simply as the Motorola Q). This is a relatively large-keyboard Smartphone…