Monthly Archives: November 2010
HP – Officejet Pro 8500A Plus eAIO
We’re used to the idea of buying an inkjet printer for the home and a laser for the office, so the idea of an inkjet MFD (Multi Function Device) that is intended for office duties sounds like a strange concept. The general rule is that inkjets are cheap to buy and have the flexibility of…
Focus Multimedia – Encyclopaedia Britannica 2011 Ultimate Edition
In some ways, it feels gloriously outdated to be installing an encylopaedia product onto a computer. This is, after all, a market that the Internet has decimated, leaving the long-running leader, Encarta, as having long since flown the software coop. Which leaves the DVD-ROM of Encyclopaedia Britannica 2011 standing pretty much alone. To compensate for…
Konami – Saw II: Flesh & Blood
The first Saw game managed to sneak under many people’s collective radar this time last year, and yet Konami actually backed the right horse there. In movie licence terms it was quite cheap. The game wasn’t the most expensive to produce. And, in truth, it was quite good too. It was atmospheric, coherent and, while…
Global Graphics – gDoc Fusion
With PDF publishing now an option in a lot of applications, specialist PDF tools have to work much harder to get attention. In the case of gDoc Fusion from Global Graphics that means not only being able to convert just about any document under the sun, but combine content from different documents into a single…
Apple iPhone app round-up: Train Yard, Moonpig, BlogPress, Reactable, Remote, Levi Roots’ Sunshine Food
This month we’ve been getting back on the right track, greeting friends and family, blogging like crazy, making music, mastering our remote controls and cooking up a Caribbean storm. As kids we were never that struck by toy trains: too regimented and predictable, always going where they were told, always keeping to the speed limit….
Dell – PowerEdge R310
With a starting price of just under £700, Dell’s new PowerEdge R310 is a remarkably affordable server, well within the scope of most small business buyers. With a single processor, 32GB of memory and just four internal disks, it’s not the biggest or fastest on the market, but for many people that won’t be an…
Apple – iLife ’11
iLife is Apple’s suite of creative software that ships free with every new Mac and is supposed to cover all of the major bases: so it includes programs for making music, movies and web sites, organising and using photos, as well as creating DVDs. You can also buy it separately (though it requires Snow Leopard…
TomTom – GO LIVE 1000
The next time you pass a minicab, take a good look at the dashboard: there’s a good chance that the hapless passenger’s destination is under the control of a GPS-enabled smartphone. A couple of years ago you’d have almost certainly seen a dedicated sat-nav device, but the inexorable rise of the smartphone combined with free…
Deep Silver – The X Factor
Ever wanted to go on The X Factor, but didn’t fancy the prospect of being ritually humiliated and scorned by everyone in the pub from here to eternity? Well, now’s your chance, because Deep Silver has produced a full karaoke version of the famous show. The X Factor on the Xbox (the most appropriate console,…
Samsung – SCX-3205W
At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking Samsung’s diminutive SCX-3205W is single-function laser. However, despite its compact size it actually manages to squeeze in a scanning unit, making it a fully-fledged multifunction device that can print, copy and scan. As is common with Samsung’s laser printers, close attention has been paid to aesthetics. The…