Monthly Archives: September 2009
Xerox – Phaser 6125
Xerox’s entry-level colour laser printer is aimed at the home and small office markets and has the modest footprint to match. Decked out all in white with a blue highlight for the control panel, it manages to look smaller than it is, through clever design features like letting the paper tray stick out at the…
Activision – Wolfenstein
With characters talking as if they’ve just walked out of an episode of ‘Allo ‘Allo, and cut scenes that you want to skip pretty much as soon as they’ve started, the latest revival of the grand-daddy of first person shooters, Wolfenstein, doesn’t get off to the easiest of starts. To be fair, graphically it looks…
Freecom – USB Memory
The ‘high-capacity, small-footprint’ portable storage market continues to gather pace and Freecom’s credit-card sized USB Memory is certainly slim and sleek enough to fit in a pocket or bag without weighing you down. At just 80g it’s extremely lightweight and with 120GB and 160GB capacities available there’s plenty of room to carry important files around…
Avanquest – Babylon 8
Although the name recalls both the biblical tower of Babel where no-one could understand each other and the ‘translator microbes’ beloved of space operas, Babylon 8 is no piece of science fiction. The latest release revamps the interface completely and adds many new features, making it more useful for on-the-fly language translation than ever before….
Brother – P-Touch 2100
There are plenty of label printers around, but most are intended for permanent connection to a PC and intended primarily for quick and easy address labelling. Brother’s P-Touch 2100 is a little different. Styled to be handheld or used as a standalone device, it has a fairly full QWERTY keyboard of rubbery keys, though some…
BenQ – M2200HD
Most monitors, like televisions, are black. Either that or silver. Other colours are generally frowned upon. Woodgrain casing, for example, went out in the seventies (thankfully). With the release of the M2200HD, BenQ has decided to buck convention with a monitor which is – wait for it – white. Although it does have silver trim….
EA – GI Joe
With 45 years of service in the line of toys, comics, cartoons and various other spin-offs, GI Joe is a grizzled veteran these days. But the franchise isn’t about to retire to a log cabin in the woods to drink bourbon, drive around in a pickup with roof-mounted lights and shoot deer. No sir, far…
Asus – Eee PC 1005HA SeaShell
ASUS made the idea of the netbook fashionable with its Eee PC range and since then the Eee production line has been in overdrive. The company’s relatively new SeaShell collection will probably turn out to be its most popular yet, thanks to a mixture of portability, chic good looks and exceptional battery life. If you…
BitDefender – Total Security 2010
We’ve been impressed in the past by BitDefender and Total Security 2009 was one of the best alternatives to more established names in this market. The new version promises a similarly comprehensive set of features and had us wondering exactly what else the company can do to improve on its past success. Installation is quick…
Apple iPhone app round-up: Shakespeare, Earth vs Moon, Kayak, Put Things Off, Fourtrack, Epicurious
This month there’s a shoot ‘em up, the complete Shakespeare, travel planning and task management, a recording studio and a recipe book: all available on an iPhone near you. First stop is Earth Vs Moon (£1.19) a shoot ‘em up that evokes the classics (Space Invaders and Missile Command) but renders them as a glossy,…