Monthly Archives: January 2010
Iceberg Interactive – Dark Fall: Lost Souls
Dark Fall: Lost Souls is a point-and-click adventure which has the perfect setting for a horror tale. A graveyard, you say? A crypt? A disused abattoir? No. It’s set in a railway station, the home of some of the most unimaginable terrors. Station announcers with a nasal tone that can put you to sleep. Forever….
Nokia – X6
Nokia’s X6 is one of just a handful of handsets from the company to have a touchscreen, and it is the first to have a capacitive touchscreen. This means it is more responsive than its resistive predecessors, but that’s not going to be enough to get it to the top of the handset sales lists….
Shenzhen Zhongtiancheng Technology Co – USB 7.1 Sound Adapter
It’s not just the best things that come in small packages. As it turns out, so do bargain basement, cheap looking, fairly functional things. That’s certainly a description that fits this innocuous looking USB 7.1 Sound Adapter, a small and economical product that aims to provide half-decent sound to a desktop or laptop machine that’s…
Sapphire – Radeon HD5770 Vapour-X
Sapphire is always at the forefront of bringing something new to the table when AMD launches a new range of GPUs, and it hasn’t taken the company long to bring out its Vapour-X version of the Radeon HD5770, featuring a non-standard cooler which is not only quieter than the reference design, Sapphire also claims it…
THQ – League of Legends
League of Legends is the sort of game you can laugh at. Ha! Ha! Why? Because of its acronym, that’s why; LoL. We can only expect the expansion or sequel will be dubbed Return of the Fantastic Legends, or RotFL for short. But there are only two things you need to know about LoL, aside…
Advent – Verona
Advent’s latest notebook, the slim-line, ultraportable Verona, is a bit of a curate’s egg. While it has styling which catches the eye, a largish screen and an admirably low price tag, the use of a single core ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) low powered processor gives it little more power than a netbook. Unfortunately all the…
Intel – Core i5 661
The model code of Intel’s new Core i5 661 processor sounds as though it might be a subtle variant of Core i5 750, whereas it actually takes a significant step forward. Core i7 900 (development name Nehalem) introduced us to Intel’s integrated memory controller which was combined with a quad core processor that used Hyper…
PC Tools – Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 2010
In 2008, Australian-based PC Tools was acquired by global security giant Symantec. Many thought this would see Symantec’s scanning software being ported into PC Tools’ products, but the two have actually continued as separate entities. And with many big-name security vendors now relying on third-party scanning technology, it’s refreshing to see PC Tools still uses…
Digiarty Software – WinX DVD Ripper Platinum
Laws on making backup copies of DVD movies vary throughout the world, but whenever film studios come up with a new form of copy protection for their discs, you can bet that software companies will do their best to crack it. And that’s the case with WinX DVD Ripper Platinum, a relatively small (8MB) application…
Crucial – Ballistix Tracer 3GB kit PC3-12800 DDR3 Memory
Despite being an essential part of every desktop PC, memory is rarely the most exciting of components. With its Ballistix Tracer series Crucial aims to inject some welcome ‘bling’ into the proceedings whilst delivering some highly impressive DRAM for owners of Intel’s flagship X58 platform. A few months ago memory prices were at a level…