Monthly Archives: March 2010
Microsoft – Sidewinder X4 Gaming Keyboard
Good gaming keyboards generally come with a price tag to scare you away at 50 paces. And, let’s face it, the £49.99 cost of the latest Microsoft Sidewinder X4 is sure to have the same effect on some. That said, it’s quite a conservative asking price by recent standards, and to be fair, it’s really…
BrainDistrict – LifeAssets 1.1
Rich men don’t go to heaven. At least according to the proverb which compares the likelihood of such an event with a camel being able to pass through a small hole in a piece of sewing equipment. By this logic, hell must be full of the stinkingly affluent who, by now, may well have pooled…
Nokia – X3
Nokia currently has two X series music phones in its portfolio, the X6 and the X3. They are aimed at very different markets. The X6 is a high end handset, and to emphasise the point it comes in two versions, one with a whopping 32GB of storage and a £450 price tag. The X3 is…
Apple iPhone app round-up: Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Director’s Cut, Outside, Skeptical Science, iFiles, Mashable, Photo Makeover
This month’s iPhone round-up has been pointing and clicking its way around Paris, swapping all sorts of files wirelessly between phone and PC, watching the weather, keeping abreast of social media news, countering climate change sceptics, and making funny faces. The iPhone is a great platform for point-and-click adventures and one of the most distinctive…
Symantec – Norton 360 4.0
Symantec has done a great job of maintaining its number one spot in the security market and this is in no small part down to Norton 360, the “user-friendly” alternative to Norton Internet Security that’s aimed more at consumers and adds backup and tune-up to a wealth of cutting-edge tools. Norton 360 4.0 is boosted…
Avanquest – Radiotracker 6
The simplicity of Radiotracker 6′s mission in life is roughly reflected by its file size. For the core program would just about fit on a floppy disk (remember them?), and it downloaded in no time. We can’t remember the last application we tested that was quite so small, which is especially interesting considering the qualities…
UbiSoft – Imagine: Journalist
It’d be churlish to draw any kind of real-life comparison to the representation of journalism as seen in UbiSoft’s latest casual game. But that’s okay: this writer’s quite good at being churlish. For, if you take the UbiSoft approach to the profession as seen in Imagine: Journalist, then you no longer needs years of training….
Casio – EXILIM EX-FH100
Buying a camera used to be a simple task: there were specific models for professionals who liked lots of manual controls, simple point-‘n’-shooters for amateurs who didn’t want any micro-management and camcorders to take care of all those home or holiday movies. Nowadays, ‘multifunction’ and ‘hybrid’ are the buzzwords and virtually any digital camera you…
Disney Interactive – Alice In Wonderland
There should be an old adage in the world of videogames, that goes along the lines of ‘beware the game that’s dumped solely on Nintendo platforms’. Because increasingly, particularly where movie tie-ins are concerned, this seems to indicate a game with the casual market in mind. And that then increasingly seems to indicate a game…
Intel – Core i7 980X Extreme Edition
The new Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition CPU doesn’t sound like much of an update to the Core i7-975X, however it actually represents a major leap forward. Core i7-975X is a quad-core CPU with Hyper-Threading that supports eight threads. Core i7-980X is a hexa-core CPU, also with Hyper-Threading, that supports 12 threads and, while we…