Monthly Archives: April 2011
Avid Studio
Avid Studio is the new top-of-the-range in Avid’s consumer video editing suites. It trumps Pinnacle Studio HD Ultimate Collection 15, and includes just about everything the serious home user needs to produce professional-quality movies and slideshows. Although it shares some features with Pinnacle Studio 15, notably an impressive collection of bonus effects and add-ons –…
BenQ W1200
Small, handsomely designed and selling for just over a grand, BenQ’s latest Full HD projector is aimed at the ‘home projection’ market – and that means photos and gaming as well as home cinema. The W1200, you see, has something that virtually all serious’ home cinema projectors lack: built-in speakers. It’s a nice addition that…
Android app round-up: Firefox Mobile, SoundHound, PowerAMP, WritePad, Handcent SMS, Coloroid
This month, we’ve been playing an eyeball-popping game, getting to grips with SMS and writing, spending a lot of time with music and exploring an old favourite web browser that’s finally made it to Android. Firefox MobileFirefox’s newly released free browser for Android has some clever features up its sleeve. The most important of these…
Asus GTX 590 (ENGTX590)
AMD has held the fastest video card in the world crown for quite some time now, with the ageing Radeon HD 5970 still more than capable of beating off competition from the fastest NVIDIA cards. The first Fermi-architecture release from NVIDA, the GTX 480, was far too hot to spawn a dual-GPU variant, but after…
Dell Vostro 460
Dell’s Vostro series is designed to offer small businesses a good specification for the money, along with ease of maintenance. The Vostro 460 sits at the more powerful end of the range, featuring a choice of faster Intel Core processors. First impressionsThe casing for the Vostro 460 system is compact at 14x7x17.5in. Dell touts it…
Creative ZiiO 10 inch
Creative has hit the Android tablet sector with two designs. One is the7in ZiiO offering; the other – the subject of this review – has a 10 inch screen. The company’s idea, presumably, is to cover off both bases in terms of what users find an attractive size for a tablet. But has Creative done…
HP OfficeJet Pro 8000 Enterprise
Laser printers dominate in enterprise office environments, mostly due to their low cost per page, flexibility and network manageability. But in most large offices you’ll still find plenty of inkjets tucked away, used for tasks such as photo printing that even the best lasers just cannot cope with. With the Officejet Pro 8000 Enterprise, HP…
The Sims Medieval by EA
The medieval version of The Sims hasn’t simply thrown in some lute music and substituted 2.4 kids in an apartment for 6.5 urchins in a mud-brick shack. While the core mechanics are still here, with a very similar interface and the usual (albeit simplified) need meters, some major alterations have been made to the formula….
LG Optimus 2X
Smartphones get better all the time. There are two aspects to this advance: one is adding ever more adventurous software features to handsets; the other is improving the hardware. Arguably the biggest improvement on the latter front for some time is the introduction of dual-core processors. And first to market with a dual-core processor is…
Corsair Graphite Series 600T Mid-Tower Case
Corsair is a name more commonly associated with high-performance memory and, more recently, SSD storage. Its first venture into PC cases – the Obsidian 800D – was well received by most reviewers, but wasn’t without its critics. For one, the case was incredibly heavy, tipping the scales at a back-breaking 16kg. It also took some…