Monthly Archives: December 2010
Edifier – Soundbar USB
Laptops aren’t known for having great speakers. This can be a pain if you want to do things like listen to music while you use your computer, or deliver presentations to others directly from it in a work situation . Not surprisingly, there are plenty of third-party speaker sets designed to give the sound quality…
Activision – James Bond 007: Blood Stone
So you’re given the opportunity to design a James Bond game. You sit down and start ticking off all the essentials a fan would expect from a 007 experience. Flash, fast cars? Check. Spectacular explosions, breathtaking chase scenes, beautiful women? Check. Exotic locations, cool gadgets and a megalomaniacal villain bent on world domination? Check, check,…
Sanyo – Xacti VPC-GH1
Sanyo’s recent collection of ‘dual’ cameras (that is, capable of taking both still photos and videos) have been designed like mini pistols, with developers concentrating on making them ultra-thin (like the VPC-CS1) and even waterproof (like the VPC-CA100). At the same time, it has also produced a range of more traditional box’-style camcorders that nevertheless…
Avanquest – Family Tree Maker 2011
Family Tree Maker (FTM), one of the most recognised genealogy software packages for the PC. Now produced by Avanquest under licence from Ancestry, it has been released by one publisher or another for 17 years now. The family history market is a crowded one, with competitors including Family Historian and RootsMagic (both of which come…
Nokia – C7
The Nokia C7 is one of a rare group of handsets currently available running the new touch-friendly Symbian ^3 operating system. There will be more handsets as time goes on, but currently the OS is finding its feet – and Nokia is learning if we like it or not. The C7 is a well specified…
EA – Hasbro Family Game Night 3
The latest release in the Family Game Night series from EA bundles five party and board games up together in one console-based compendium. Titles in the family pack include Yahtzee (albeit a card-based version), Mouse Trap, The Game of Life, Cluedo and Twister. Our first thought was probably much the same as yours: “Twister?!” How…
Apple iPhone app round-up: Munch 5-a-day, Sleep Talk Recorder, Momento, IMDb, Appshopper, Rage HD
This month we’ve been eating, sleeping, writing, watching, shopping and killing zombies. Well, man cannot live by bread alone… We’ve been trying to increase our fruit and veg intake with Munch 5-a-day (0.59p), a simple food tracker that lets you record whenever you give your body what it needs, rather than what it fancies. Couldn’t…
Samsung – N350
With its glossy outer shell, the N350 looks very similar to Samsung’s N230 netbook we reviewed a couple of months ago. They are both 10.1-inch models, but the big difference is that this new model has one of Intel’s new dual-core Atom processors beating away inside. Samsung’s done a great job in terms of making…
Nikon – COOLPIX P100
If you can cast your mind back about a year, you’ll remember that Nikon brought out the COOLPIX P90 as a solidly built super-zoom bridge’ camera which provided several of the features belonging to typical DSLR cameras, while still making the controls and menus relatively easy to operate for those who were used to the…
Android app round-up: Google Reader, Vignette, Dropbox, Skype, Bike Doctor, Angry Birds: Seasons
This month we’ve been checking our RSS feeds, tweaking festive photos, sharing documents with our PC, making Skype calls, repairing our bicycle and getting in a bit of Christmassy Angry Birds action. If you’re a fan of RSS feeds, you might like to check out the new free Google Reader for Android. Launched this month,…