Monthly Archives: September 2010
Realmac Software – Courier
For anyone who’s moved beyond sending files as attachments with an e-mail, all this sharing lark is a real drag. You’ve got to remember all the different processes and quirks and forms and uploaders that open the doors to services like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook, as well as having a separate program for uploading…
Brother – MFC-J615W
Brother recently released a plethora of colour inkjet all-in-one printers which sounded promising, but we were singularly unimpressed with the DCP-J715W at the bottom end of the range. The MFC-J615W is at the top of the spectrum so we were hoping that it might show a marked improvement over its smaller sibling. Generally Brother scores…
iPad – Skywriting HD, Songwriter’s Pad, Jubilee, SkyGrid, Manage, Dead Runner
This month’s iPad app roundup has been skywriting, getting inspiration, looking like we’re thoughtful, trending, making more lists and running away. Remember the 90s, when someone in a suit would say “let’s blue-sky this for a moment”? Now you can do it yourself – literally. Skywriting HD (£1.19) turns your finger into the jet trail…
Acer – Stream
The Stream is Acer’s flagship smartphone for this year, and it is one of the top Android based handsets available. To all the key features you would expect to see in a top of the range handset, Acer adds the latest gizmo, 720p video recording. The Stream looks fabulous. The physical design is neat and…
Android app round-up: BI Notes, Google Sky Map, London Cycle Hire, Seesmic, FB Reader, Phit Droid
This is the first of a monthly round-up of applications for Android based smartphones. Every month we will bring you a six snappy review of apps we’ve found and liked. This month we’ve had our eye on managing tasks, cycling, stargazing, tweeting, ebooks and tessellation. No matter what other uses you find for your Android…
MSI – P55A Fuzion
One of the holy grails of motherboard design is the ability to support two graphics cards with differing architectures in a single board, akin to a Crossfire or a SLI setup. With the coming of Lucid’s Hydra 200 chip this dream of mix and match is now a reality. Its first appearance in a motherboard…
Excalibur – Space Shuttle Simulator & Apollo Simulator
If you thought people screamed a lot in space when there was a small alien beastie exploding out of a crew member’s stomach, you want to hear the yelling and shrieking noises our shuttle co-pilot made as we attempted to judge our descent back into the Earth’s atmosphere with the correct angle of attack. Actually,…
LG – Optimus GT540
You won’t find an Android-based handset for much less money than the LG Optimus GT540. It is free on contract for as little as £12 a month and costs £100 SIM-free. It is widely available too: you can get it from most UK operators. It packs in HSDPA, Wi-Fi and GPS which are the staples…
Acer – Liquid E
Times move quickly in the smartphone world. At the end of last year Acer launched the Liquid, its first Android based handset. Since then things have moved very swiftly indeed, and Acer now has quite an array of Android handsets in its portfolio. But there is obviously still some pulling power in the physical design…
Roxio – Creator 2011 Standard
A Swiss Army knife is a very good pocket knife with a lot of novel, if sometimes rather unusable, gadgets. A multi-tool, on the other hand, is more often than not just a collection of unusable gadgets. Multimedia suites tend to be more like Swiss Army knives than multi-tools, but thankfully in Roxio’s 2011 version…