Monthly Archives: August 2010
Tulip – C3
Nokia’s C3 looks at first glance to be every inch a high end messaging phone. But it is in fact a mid range handset, the price indicating that it can’t possibly offer top end smartphone features. The most serious negative point is the absence of 3G. Anyone keen on web browsing or downloading mobile email,…
Asus – Eee PC T101MT
Netbooks are all about low price tags and portability. Incorporating a weight-inducing touchscreen into one and slapping a £450 price tag on it might, therefore, seem like an odd decision. However, that hasn’t stopped netbook-pioneer Asus from releasing a touch-based Eee PC in the form of the T101MT. The display is of the twist-and-flip variety,…
Apple – Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
As all Dr Who fans know, the Tardis time machine is a lot bigger on the inside than out. A seemingly impossible feat that Apple appears to have replicated with its tiny Mac mini which can be had not just for desktop use, but as a server too. Aimed at small businesses with limited technical…
Samsung – Galaxy S
Samsung’s Galaxy S is the company’s flagship handset for 2010, and what a handset it is. The on-paper specifications are very impressive. The Galaxy S runs Android 2.1 with 2.2 on the way. It has a 1GHz processor, 16GB of built in storage if you buy it from Vodafone, 8GB if you go elsewhere, and…
Buffalo – LinkStation Mini
The key word in the model name of the Buffalo LinkStation Mini is the final one: Mini. Most NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices pack a handful of 3.5-inch desktop hard drives into an appropriate case that sits out of the way on a convenient shelf. Desktop drives are the obvious choice as they offer colossal…
PCSecurityShield – Security Shield 2010
Comedy is definitely a laughing matter. Security, not so much. In fact, security is so much not a laughing matter, you’ll be hard pressed to find any malware related jokes. Any decent ones, anyway. Ahem… Why did the worm cross the road? Because it had infected the chicken’s laptop. A new type of firewall has…
Sonic Boom – Rhythm Zone
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a realm as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity. It is full of coloured notes, which stream down the screen in quick succession, chords of bright lights, played out against a swirling psychedelic background that entrances the mind. It…
Apple iPhone app round-up: London Cycle: Maps and Routes, VAT Pro, Plunderland, The Brainstormer, Waitrose, iWallpaper
This month we’ve been cycling round London, calculating our VAT on the fly, yo-ho-hoing on the high seas, brainstorming, planning dinner parties and gazing at beautiful pictures. It’s a hard life. Say what you like about London’s eccentric mayor Boris Johnson (and many need no encouragement), at least he has a go. Here the mayor’s…
THQ – The Last Airbender
That noise you can hear? That’ll be the well-deserved critical battering that the movie The Last Airbender has been getting. By some distance one of the worst-reviewed films of the year, it’s nonetheless been a sizeable hit. And inevitably, it brings with it a spin-off game in its wake. Gratifyingly, the game is better than…
Movavi – Video Suite 9
Just a few months after Movavi Video Suite 8 makes it into a retail box in UK shops (courtesy of X-oom), it’s interesting to see that Video Suite 9 has been made available to buy online. It thus made sense that we ended up looking at the latter, rather than the former, although if you…