Monthly Archives: January 2009
Logic3 – i-Station25
The Logic3 i-Station25 is yet another stab at the iPod dock market, but don’t switch off just yet because this particular speaker has a few tricks up its sleeve to make the most of Apple’s newer devices, like the iPhone and iPod Touch. It wraps four full-range speakers into a two-channel arrangement with 4W of…
LG – W2261V
The competition in the computer monitor market is fierce at the best of times, but now that customers are increasingly having to tighten their constantly pressurised budgets, it’s the monitors that can offer the greatest versatility for the least financial outlay that will be the most attractive to the buyer. It’s with this clearly in…
So Protect Me – Blocker
If you use a computer in the home that’s shared by more than one person, be they children, flat-mates or lodgers, you may well be concerned about how it is being used. So Protect Me Blocker addresses these issues and, among other things, protects financial information such as credit card details by restricting access. During…
Edifier – MP300 Plus
If you’ve ever cursed the sound quality of your laptop speakers, or wished you could listen to your MP3 player without your headphones and get a decent, punchy noise, then read on. At just under £50 this small but stylish audio system comes complete with a portable tube sub-woofer to give you a detailed bass…
Shrapnel Games – Brainpipe
What’s in your brain? It runs mostly on oil and water, rather like a car. But with no petrol. Or metal. Or windows. And you don’t sit in it. Although in Brainpipe, you kind of do sit in it. Well, you fly down the neural pathways in some sort of abstract vehicle, at any rate….
HTC – Touch Pro
The Touch Pro is HTC’s follow-up to the Windows Mobile 6.1 Touch Diamond. That earlier device disappointed in several ways, not least poor battery life and a clunky TouchFLO interface. The Touch Pro is small and neat like the Touch Diamond, measuring just 102mm tall and 51mm wide. It is fairly weighty at 165g and…
Dell – 5330dn Laser Printer
What do you call a black cube that can print 48 A4 pages per minute? If you’re Dell, the answer is a 5330dn, the latest and, to date, fastest member of its growing family of business lasers. From the outside the 5330dn doesn’t look like much and it’s mono only, but that’s not a major…
Sony Ericsson – W980
The W980 is a clamshell format Walkman handset. Sony Ericsson never seems to get the clamshell format quite right, and the company has failed again with the W980. Clamshell phones lend themselves to being small and neat when closed and roomy inside when opened. But this one is just too large for its own good…
Adobe – Premiere Elements 7
The big daddy video editing package in the Adobe range, Premiere Pro, is a costly beast, with the latest version bestowed with a price tag in excess of £1,000. But just as it does with its also-hardly-cheap Photoshop package, Adobe has tailored a version of Premiere for those of us on more modest budgets. And…