Monthly Archives: September 2009
TeamViewer – TeamViewer 4
I’ve been around a while now and, over the years, have tried out lots of remote control programs. Some I’ve liked, others have left me cold, but one of my favourites has to be TeamViewer. Not because it has more to offer than the competition – although it does measure up pretty well – and…
HTC – Touch Pro 2
HTC has plenty of Windows Mobile smartphones in its current catalogue, but it has taken the company a long time to come up with a successor to the superb TyTN II. That device was characterised by a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a screen which tilted up at an angle that made it easy to read…
Epson – Stylus Office BX310FN
Although the official price for this all-in-one printer is £130, there are currently several outlets offering it for significantly less, which makes the Stylus Office BX310FN an attractive option for budget-conscious small businesses and home users. This is a particularly compact and lightweight machine, measuring 535 x 475 x 295mm and weighing in at a…
Dell – PowerEdge R610
Intel’s 45nm Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processor technology is something of a no-brainer, delivering an unbeatable mix of high performance and energy saving features. Server vendors have, understandably, adopted it with gusto, among them Dell, whose 11th generation PowerEdge servers feature support for the new Intel chips plus a couple of unique features of its own…
Dark Omen Games – Nebulon
2D shoot-’em-ups are as traditional, well worn and aged formulas as, say, to pick something completely at random… Limericks. In this offering from the Xbox Live Marketplace, you play the role of a fighter pilot who has to kill lots of aliens. A fighter pilot called Laurie. In fact, the back story goes a little…
Kace – KBOX 1000 Series Systems Management Appliance
The idea behind the Kace KBOX 1000 is far from radical: it simply delivers systems management on an appliance. The results, however, are quite astounding. Instead of days, or sometimes weeks, getting to grips with the tools involved, you can be up and managing the desktops and servers on your LAN in just a few…
Elite Minds – RightWriter 5
Writing is a skill what we all hopes to do good at, though it is nothing but not easy, is it? And that’s where a grammar checking program like RightWriter 5 comes in, hopefully ensuring that an aberration of a sentence like the previous one will be rightly burned in such an intense heat that…
Eidos – Championship Manager 2010
The major challenge that’s faced the football management genre since Kevin Toms’ beard first adorned the packaging of Football Manager back in 1982 has been this: how do you come up with a visual representation of a match that a) has some purpose and b) doesn’t bore the gamer to tears. Many have come close…
Canon – PIXMA MX320
Canon’s PIXMA MX320 is at the low end of the company’s range of SOHO all-in-one printers. It has the same basic design as the rest of the current range, with the Automatic Document Feed (ADF) built into the top of the machine, with a surround containing the control panel. The ADF has a fold-out feed…
BenQ – GP1
There’s a growing market for the new breed of mini projectors, judging by the rash of models being launched by most of the major players. Benq has recently released the ‘Joybee’ GP1: we don’t know why ‘Joybee’ and will just call it the GP1 in this review. It’s described as palm-sized and that gives a…