Monthly Archives: October 2008
EA – FIFA 09
There’s been some recent controversy in the football world about whether video replay footage should be used to clarify important penalty decisions and the like. To our mind, the answer’s simple: use it. The argument that it might slow the game down seems a bit daft to us, when balanced against the fact that the…
Easy MP3 Download – Easy MP3 Downloader
Pressure has been building on established MP3 download services like iTunes. Rivals such as 7Digital and Play.com are now offering DRM-free content, and with more set to follow we could soon be seeing the end of audio encryption that restricts the way you use your music. Easy MP3 Downloader is a new service that allows…
Samsung – Spinpoint F1
Offering a gigabyte to pound ratio that’s quite staggering (working out around 67p at the time of writing), the Samsung Spinpoint F1 SATA2 drive is a 1TB hard disk drive that’s going to prove tempting to anyone with a PC jam-packed full of media files. To get so much into a tight price tag, the…
Sony – Play TV
You’d be hard-pushed to call Play TV the most obvious add-on for the PlayStation 3, not least thanks to a £70 price tag. But it does a job that no doubt has some benefits, so let’s take a look. The idea of the product is to allow you to watch and record digital television through…
Rock – Xtreme 780
Rock has built up a sturdy reputation over the years for producing cutting-edge PCs that are often geared towards the games market and, in the case of the Xtreme 780, that is it’s principal reason for existence. It’s bold, supremely self-confident and even arrogant, as illustrated by the large, dominating Rock logo on the stylish…
Symantec – Norton Internet Security 2009
The yearly updates to Norton Internet Security are generally fairly minor and incremental by nature. However, 2009 is a bit different as the boffins over at Symantec have opened the package up and given its innards some serious reconstructive surgery. We’re not just talking a fresh interface and lick of paint here, although the front…
Logitech – Z-5
The name might sound like that of a BMW, but the Z-5s are actually a pair of omni-directional speakers from Logitech. Omni-what now? Of course, omni-directional means that noise is sent in every direction. The Z-5 speakers are reasonably tall rectangular columns with drivers on both the front and back so that the sound comes…
Sony – VAIO BZ-11MN
Sony is well known for producing a whole host of stylish VAIO notebooks for home users, but maybe not so well known is its range of business notebooks, the BZ-11MN being the latest. Whereas the consumer VAIOs are generally stylish, the BZ-11MN’s only relief from its austere charcoal grey finish is the reflective silver VAIO…
Samsung – R510
Just to confuse people there are two types of Samsung R510 available to the consumer at the moment: a pre Centrino 2 model, which even more confusingly comes with the correct Centrino 2 chipset but without any of the launch processors and correct wireless card, and a true Centrino 2 model with all three parts…
VMWare – ThinApp
The one thing missing from VMware’s virtualisation line-up has always been a tool to virtualise applications – but no longer. Its new ThinApp product fills that gap, making it possible to build virtual applications which run in their own self-contained environments. They don’t need to be installed, there’s no agent required and they have no…