Monthly Archives: November 2009
LG – HS200
As the recession continues to bite into our spending capabilities, the hunt is continually on for cheaper and simpler ways to enhance our entertainment possibilities and LG has already taken this into consideration when it brought out, about six months ago, the ultra portable HS102 projector. The aim was to produce a lightweight and compact…
Canon – LEGRIA FS200
Christmas is coming and the geese may getting fat but a lot of shoppers’ pockets are exceedingly lean in the current financial climate. Those looking for bargains in the electronics and gadgetry arena are fortunate that there are still plenty of affordable options. For instance, if you’re determined to buy your partner or parent a…
AMS Software – Photo Art Studio 2009
Literally translated from the Greek the word derives from, photography is the art of writing in light. Which must make photo editing equivalent to sub-editing, perhaps: honing something good into something better. Well, that’s the idea, anyway. This photo editing suite from AMS Software aims to improve images via a simple set of editing features,…
Black Jacket Studios – Metal Drift
No one envisions the future of sports as a peaceful one. Tomorrow’s version of football won’t be played on clouds by angels (all of them wingers, we guess), with no fouls allowed and a ball made of entwined daisy chains. No… Future football will be played by steroid-inflated meat-heads foaming at the mouth and wearing…
Dell – PowerEdge R410
There was a time when servers were pretty much alike, but no more. Nowadays they’re built to suit specific markets, as with the rack-mount PowerEdge R410 which, according to manufacturer Dell, has been designed with so-called High Performance Computing (HPC) in mind. The HPC angle means quite a few differences compared to a general purpose…
Namco Bandai – Tekken 6
There was a time near the dawn of console gaming when it seemed that the world was hooked on one-on-one combat games and at the centre of this craze was a game that saw its birth (in 1994) in arcades. The first Tekken was fast and furious and an instant favourite, and 15 years on…
Samsung – Jet S8000
Samsung’s Jet has a lot going for it, but Samsung has decided to focus attention on the 800Mhz processor that beats at its heart. This, says Samsung, gives it the ability to play back multimedia well, deliver a fast, responsive user interface, and generally cope with applications with aplomb. We found this to be the…
LG – GD900 Crystal
Mobile phone manufacturers try hard to differentiate each handset they produce in terms of both looks and services. This can result in some quite bizarre looking devices, or, as in the case of the Crystal GD900 from LG – which has been out for a while now but is worth another look – an entirely…
Avanquest – Family Tree Maker Platinum 2010
In a world where even Microsoft Word finally looks like someone bothered to design it, family tree programs have suffered under sinfully ugly interfaces. This, combined with the fact that they typically shipped with CDs stuffed full of irrelevant records (if you’re researching your Scottish father, all that American Civil War info isn’t much use),…
Serif – WebPlus X4
Serif likes jumping up version numbers in twos and WebPlus X4 is the immediate successor to WebPlus X2, which itself followed version 10. Given the good feature set of X2, it’s something of a surprise that there’s so much new in the latest version. WebPlus is a web site maker from the desktop publishing school….