Monthly Archives: May 2010
Gyration – Air Mouse Elite
For those who haven’t encountered Gyration’s products before, they use its MotionSense technology, which in this incarnation consists of a miniature 2-axis gyroscope. This detects mouse motion in the horizontal and vertical planes and so allows wireless control of the mouse pointer on screen with no need for any physical contact with a mouse mat…
Capcom – Super Street Fighter IV
Street fighting is not to be recommended. The real thing, that is. It is nowhere near as pretty and gratifying as Super Street Fighter IV’s cartoon world of flurried punches and flung fireballs. Sure, real street fights have special moves, but not like Capcom knows them. There’s the tooth loosener: a swift surprise headbutt pre-empting…
Capcom – Lost Planet 2
Looking back to the original Lost Planet, it was a somewhat contradictory game. On the surface it bristled with attention to detail, with quite superb visuals, enveloping sound effects and a general feeling that it was a class-A multimedia production. What let the side down slightly was the game in the middle of it all:…
Nova Development – Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 8
There’s clearly a market for those of us who like the idea of producing a personalised card for that special birthday or at Christmas, but don’t have the appetite to get out the paper, scissors, glitter, glue, bits of felt, family photos and go the entire D-I-Y hog. Hence something like Greeting Card Factory, which…
Fujitsu – LIFEBOOK S760
Fujtisu has lots of different laptop series, with the LIFEBOOK S series designed to offer performance in a lightweight chassis so that those who travel with their laptops don’t have to compromise on either. With that in mind the specifications are relatively impressive. Our review sample was at the top of the range and costs…
Samsung – NX10
One of the most exciting recent innovations in the digital camera market has been the arrival of the Micro Four Thirds cameras that have been designed as the ideal bridge between ordinary compacts and DSLRs. Up until now, Panasonic’s G-series and Olympus’s revamped PEN cameras have led the way in this area, but now Samsung…
HIS – Radeon HD5830 iCooler V Turbo 1GB
The latest and possibly the last member of AMD’s all conquering 45nm 5xxxx DX11 series of graphics cores is the Radeon HD 5830. “Why yet another 5 series card?” we hear you ask. Well, quite simply it fills in the gap both in price and performance between the HD5770 and the HD5850 cards that have…
Apple iPhone app round-up: Ancestry’s Tree To Go, ReadMore, Sketch Nation Shooter, Decorator, Sampletoy, NASA app
This month we’ve been digging, reading, painting, making games, making noise and watching the skies. There’s never a dull moment with an iPhone. We’ve been digging into the past wherever we go, courtesy of Ancestry.com’s Tree To Go app (Free), the pocket-friendly way to check and update your family tree. You’ll need an account on…
Acer – Aspire X5900
In appearance the Acer Aspire X5900 looks like a regular tower PC but what the photos don’t reveal is its tiny size. The tower stands 265mm tall and is 372mm deep and 100mm wide, which works out to a volume slightly less than ten litres. By comparison a regular mid-tower case has a volume of…
Fortora – Fortora Fresh Finance
Personal finance programs are never going to be much fun. Thus, in order to attract customers and then keep them using the product, they have to get the basics right up front and be easy to use after that. Anyone who’s waded through the overblown, detail-obsessed setups required by some home finance programs will know…