Monthly Archives: July 2010
iRiver – T8
Ultra-portable MP3 players were big business when they first arrived on the scene, offering music lovers a tidy and unobtrusive way to carry collections of music around without taking up an entire pocket. A quick “shuffle” through the IT Reviews archives reminds us it has been four years since Creative released its Zen Nano Plus,…
Nikon – COOLPIX S8000
Nikon’s COOLPIX range has generally lived up to its chic, stylish image while at the same time delivering high quality images, and the current collection (of which the S8000 is the top of the range) continues in the same tradition, yet still with a few design niggles that could be easily rectified next time around….
505 Games – Backbreaker
There’s a fairly popular misconception that American football is a sport for pansies. Rugby players in particular are often to be heard calling their counterparts across the pond wusses because they have to wear loads of padding and crash helmets. That’s when they’re not downing yards of ale while bawling out songs about rogering the…
Samsung – WB650
Boasting features such as a 15x optical zoom and built-in GPS, Samsung’s WB650 aims to offer slightly more than your average compact camera. With a black and sliver chassis measuring 107 x 61 x 28mm, the WB650 looks impressive. The large lens sits proudly at the front, while a 3-inch OLED monitor takes up the…
ZeoBIT – MacKeeper
Despite its supposed legendary ease of use, the typical Macintosh is just as likely to get itself into mess after a few months’ normal use as a Windows PC. Both machines share many of the same problems – duplicates, unnecessary files, bits (sometimes large ones) left behind when applications are removed, programs you don’t need…
Microsoft – Crackdown 2
You may have already noticed, but it’s taken quite a long time for a sequel to Crackdown to emerge. The reason for this? Well, back when the original game arrived, it proved to be something of a sleeper hit. So much so that Microsoft took its time deliberating on whether to press ahead with a…
Microsoft – Office Web Apps
Once upon a time, there was a company called Microsoft. It was founded by a cheery little pixie called Bill, who, back in the way olden days, travelled to the end of a rainbow and found a pot of DOS. Bill’s company was a huge success and employed lots more pixies who wove many, many…
Fuel Collective – Eon
Freelances who routinely bill by the hour know that it’s no longer good enough to try to get by with back-of-an-envelope guestimates of how much time they’ve spent on a particular project; especially when time is quite literally money. There’s no shortage of time-tracking applications, but in our experience most of these have followed the…
Vodafone – 845
An Android based handset on contract for £15 a month is quite a lure, and Vodafone has precisely that offering on its books with the own-branded Vodafone 845. This is a small handset, following the trend started by Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 mini, and you shouldn’t expect to be able to do multimedia-rich stuff like…
Conceptronic – Home Media Store CH3HNAS
There’s something really quite old school about Conceptronic’s Home Media Store. At heart, it’s another in a long line of home network storage products, this one armed with media streaming technology to sweeten the deal. However, in some ways it’s as if the past couple of years hadn’t happened. The unit comes without hard drives,…