Monthly Archives: February 2008
Octigen – 236617LNOTG
First impressions, in the online shopping age, perhaps count less than they once did. But there’s little denying that Octigen’s 22-inch widescreen TFT – the clumsily-named 236617LNOTG – is hardly a looker, and would hardly benefit from living in a real-world showroom. Housed in a cheap-looking, plasticky exterior, the screen has a reflective casing that…
HD DVD Gone, Blu-ray Up?
Toshiba’s decision to cease manufacturing its HD DVD players has been widely recognised as the death knell for that format, leaving Sony in the driving seat where high definition media is concerned. Sony’s Blu-ray format now has the challenge of convincing a public tired of another tedious format war to spend their money on something…
Transcend go up to 8
Transcend has been successfully marrying up MP3 players with flash storage devices for some time, so it comes as little surprise that it continues this strategy with its T.sonic (sic) 650 MP3 player. The slim device, which now comes in an ivory-white housing, has spawned an 8GB version of the unit, which is enough to…
Epson – PictureMate PM290
The burgeoning digital photography market means more and more people are interested in printing photographs directly from digital image files. Epson’s latest take on the dedicated photo printer is the PictureMate PM290, which comes complete with Bluetooth connection and combo CD-RW and DVD drive. As with previous models in the PictureMate line, this jewellery-box-sized printer…
Altec Lansing – FX4021
One of the easiest ways to improve the sound quality of a desktop or laptop PC is to use better speakers. Even if you don’t have a 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1-channel sound card in your machine, you can get much better results with a good 2.1 system than with any internal speakers. Altec Lansing’s FX4021…
Positech Games – Democracy 2
Building a deserved and growing reputation for intelligent, home-grown software, Positech Games’ latest once again challenges you to take control of a country (all fictional this time), sort out its problems and earn yourself re-election. And, as anyone who played the original Democracy can testify, that’s some challenge. For Democracy 2, though, Positech has made…
GSP – Essentials: Service Your PC
Your PC needs to be looked after, otherwise it soon degenerates into a messy forest of files and folders. Every month (at least) you should be running a disk cleaner, defragging the hard drive and maybe even tidying the registry. Of course, these chores can easily be forgotten by the more disorganised, lazy and/or permanently…
Brother – DCP-770CW
Brother has a good range of all-in-one printers and the DCP-770CW sits near the top of that range. It’s neatly designed in silver and black and has a more integrated look than many of its rivals. The most obvious innovation in this machine, though, is its widescreen LCD display. This provides enough room to show…
Movie Edit Take 14!
Magix has confirmed the release of the latest iteration of its movie editing software. Cunningly entitled Magix Movie Edit Pro 14, the mature and respected application will be heading to stores on 10th March. It’ll be available in two flavours, with a Classic version selling for £39.99 and a Plus edition for twenty pounds more….
Hero-smith
In a departure from the normal multi-artist format, Activision has announced that the next game in the Guitar Hero franchise will be based solely on one band: Aerosmith. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will feature the music of Steven Tyler and company, with players able to step into the shoes of guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford…