Monthly Archives: September 2008
Magix – Movies2Go 3
One of a steadily-increasing stream of applications set up to tackle this particular task, Magix Movies2Go 3 exists so that you can take your media and crunch it down to a format and size that your portable device will appreciate. It does this with a user-friendly interface and by keeping technical information as far away…
EA – The Sims 2 Apartment Life
The Sims games must surely be in the record books for the most number of expansions ever. As The Sims 2 has aged, it has witnessed bigger content boosts that have added pets, businesses and holidays and a myriad of minor add-ons that provide the player with some new accessories for the kitchen or Ikea-themed…
Avanquest – Winnie The Pooh Pre-School
If you can forgive some restrictions brought about by the age of the product, then Winnie The Pooh Pre-School is a good, rounded package of activities that kept our four-year-old test subject happily entertained for a few hours. Let’s deal with the technicals first, though. Given that the product was originally released in full price…
Adobe – Photoshop Elements 7
With yet another version of the trusty Adobe Photoshop Elements to add to the library, you could be forgiven for thinking that the sole purpose of this release – so relatively close to the launch of its predecessor, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 – is simply to spin money. It was with great relief on installing…
Deep Silver – STALKER Clear Sky
It’s hard to believe that it was only just over a year ago that STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl first introduced us to a bleak, post-apocalyptic vision of an otherworldly Zone created around a mythical second devastation at the former Russian nuclear plant. Now the Ukraine-based GSC Game World studio has brought out a prequel set…
Corsair – Flash Voyager Mini 4GB
It’s to the eternal shame of your reviewer that it’s taken two attempts to test Corsair’s Flash Voyager Mini 4GB drive. This isn’t, it should be said, anything to do with the quality of the product itself, since we found it to be up to Corsair’s usual high standards. No, this is a question of…
Avanquest – Ideal Home 3D Home Design 12
What would your ideal home have in it? Ours would be equipped with built-in fridges in every room (for easy beverage access), self-vacuuming carpets and a quiet dishwashing machine (she does tend to go on a bit *). Whatever your dream place, using 3D Home Design you can envisage what it might look like if…
Pidgin – Pidgin 2.5
For a 12.1MB download, Pidgin doesn’t half manage to solve a problem or two. Over a decade after instant messenger software started to creep into our lives, many of us still experience the problem of having some contacts who talk to us through Yahoo!, some through MSN Messenger, others through AIM, and even a little…
Focus Multimedia – Supermarket Mania
Supermarket Mania doesn’t mark the first time that game developers have headed to your local Asda/Tesco/Morrisons (delete as applicable) as inspiration for a game. If you have a really long memory, you might even remember a ZX Spectrum game called Super Trolley, published after a request on Jim’ll Fix It, that actually trod much of…
Getac – PS535E
A year ago it seemed that few people had heard of rugged PCs or the name GETAC and yet now, like buses, they all arrive at once. GETAC is owned by MiTAC Technology Corporation, a joint venture with GE Aerospace division, and they have almost 20 years of experience in the rugged computing business. So…