Monthly Archives: February 2010
INQ – Chat 3G
INQ has made quite a name for itself by putting social networking features into good quality and affordable handsets. Its small range is available via the 3 network in the UK. Now INQ has added a new model, sporting a BlackBerry-like miniature QWERTY keyboard, to service the needs of those who want to type a…
Blitz Games Studios – Mole Control
What’s the most dangerous mole in the world? The melanoma variety, perhaps. Or the man on the inside of MI5 passing our secrets to the East? They even know what brand of toothpaste Gordon Brown uses (look out for the upcoming scandal: Colgate). In actual fact, the most dangerous variety is the common garden mole….
Focus Multimedia – Vampire Saga: Pandora’s Box
If you like playing computer games that you can dip in and out of, that provide you with a few brain teasers along the way and that add an unexpected twist at the end without taking days to complete, then the latest so-called ‘casual’ adventure from Focus Multimedia will probably suit the bill admirably. The…
Toshiba – Satellite Pro T130
On paper Toshiba’s Satellite Pro T130 is a dream. 11 hours of battery life thanks in part to an Intel CULV processor, small format, and low cost is the kind of combination of features that makes mobile computing fans happy. It is not all sweetness and light, though. The lack of an optical drive immediately…
Serif – Digital Scrapbook Artist 2
Nothing escapes the digital makeover, even the traditional hobby of scrapping (otherwise known as scrapbooking and here recast as ‘social scrapbooking’) which takes old photos, scissors, old ticket stubs, bits of cloth and other scruffy memorabilia and drops them into an inexpensive Windows program that arranges everything with the kind of precision that folk in…
2K Games – Bioshock 2
It’d be remiss to overlook the fact that there’s an element of business as usual about Bioshock 2. A radical overhaul of the first game this clearly isn’t, and while it does inject one or two changes to the formula, this is very much a continuation rather than a seismic jump. It’s a continuation that…
CyberDefender – Anti-Spyware For Dummies
By now, surely everyone is familiar with the Dummies series of books. Who’d have thought that a series of guides designed and branded specifically for thickos would become best-sellers? Even Sex For Dummies sold; indeed still sells. Probably online, we would think, more than in book shops. Walking up to the counter with that title…
HIS – Radeon HD5670 IceQ 512MB
Although graphics chip makers usually launch their new ranges of graphic processors with the high-end, superfast flagship models and lots of razzmatazz, these cards are really loss-leaders, as once the dust has settled the companies train their eyes on the real prize, the lower value end of the market where the real money is to…
Apple iPhone app round-up: Brushes, Today Todo Pro, Yoga STRETCH, acrossair, Doodle Jump, Outfront
This month’s round-up is looking over its shoulder at winter and shaking its little fist, safe in the knowledge that somewhere deep in its pockets are the iPhone’s finest painting app, a fabulously designed task manager, complete yoga lesson, an augmented reality browser, the most stupid, addictive game imaginable and the world’s cleverest pedometer. Justifiably…
Big Bang LLC – Universal Imaging Utility V4.5
Building new PCs can be a tedious and time consuming job, especially if you’ve lots to configure. Disk imaging tools help but you’ll need multiple images to cope with the various bits of hardware and other options employed by different vendors. Which is where the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) comes in, by enabling a single…