Monthly Archives: November 2009
Image Line Software – FL Studio 9 Signature Bundle
Fruity Loops has always been a different kind of PC music making program. Loved by those who prefer to create music using patterns, it became the heart of thousands of home studios dedicated to making dance tracks, partly due to its low entry price and partly because of an aggressive – and unusual – policy…
Apple iPhone app round-up: Clipster, Spawn Illuminati, World Customs & Cultures, Dark Nebula, Gossip Junkie, 3D Brain
Welcome to this month’s round up of new, notable and need-to-have apps for the iPhone. This time around we’ve got hi-tech intergalactic marbles, a neat, useful clipboard utility, things that blossom and sparkle, a celebrity gossip aggregator, dos and don’ts from around the world, and the inside – ew – scoop on your brain. As…
Konami – Saw: The Game
When Konami announced earlier this year that it had a game based on the horror movie franchise Saw in the offing, it seemed like quite a good plan. A brand new theme park ride based on the films was opening, the fifth movie had banked over $100m worldwide, and two more films had already been…
LG – GD910 watch phone
Why do they do it? Why do companies who can make perfectly good technologies sometimes decide to throw the baby and the bathwater at a bizarre combination that should only see the light of day in science fiction movies? Who knows why, but LG has come up with a phone in a watch. The GD910…
FujiFilm – Finepix Real 3D W1
This is a remarkable camera, not because of its technical specifications – it’s actually unremarkable in terms of the quality of the images it takes – but because it can take and display 3D pictures. To be truly accurate, the pictures are stereoscopic rather than full 3D, but there is certainly a third dimension to…
LucasArts – Lucidity
We all dream, and some pretty weird stuff at times. One of this reviewer’s most vivid childhood nightmares was about boxes. Yes, boxes; we know… It wasn’t the boxes that were the point though. We were moving them from one side of a massive room to the other, at first just one box, then two,…
LG – Chocolate BL40
LG’s Chocolate BL40 is a tall, thin handset, its key claim to fame being its oddly shaped screen. There is a reason for the unusual 800 x 345-pixel display, which measures 4-inches across diagonal corners, and that reason is to deliver a 2.35:1 widescreen video playback ratio, giving you a better than usual viewing experience…
SanDisk – Sansa Clip+
SanDisk has made a name for itself in the MP3 player market. The early Sansa range of players offered good value for money, good sound quality and the extraordinarily consumer-friendly ability to have their internal memory augmented via microSD cards. SanDisk continues to make small format portable music players, and its Sansa Clip range has…
MSI – X600
When it comes to slim and light notebooks it’s nice to see a range of manufacturers offering some competition to Apple’s uber-sleek MacBook. MSI is the latest to arrive as a healthy alternative for those who prioritise portability, and its X600 is indeed an extremely stylish machine out of the box. At 2.1kg and just…
5th Cell – Scribblenauts
Hype is something that is becoming synonymous with modern game releases but it’s not often we see something totally different that actually works. Scribblenauts ticks both these boxes, and is indeed one of the most intriguing and unbelievable concepts we’ve seen to date. Arriving on the DS, it appears at first glance to be a…