We reviewed an earlier version of the SwitchView MP, under a different brand name, here. Like that model, this one allows you to connect up to four computers to a single keyboard, mouse and monitor, and ...

It's one of computer life's little truisms that there's never one accepted standard for anything when there could be five competing ones. This is particularly true of memory cards, with five current standards: PCMCIA - also ...

Losing power while you're on the move can be a real pain. Batteries in mobile phones and notebook computers still don't last particularly long and have a habit of dying at just the wrong moment. But ...

With the (probably temporary) setback in the widespread sharing of music files over the Web, it can be hard to find digital versions of your old vinyl records. True, many will be available on CD, but ...

Is your PC at risk from mains power failure? With solar flares (yes, really) and extreme weather-related threats to electricity supplies in the news a lot these days, mains power reliability is not 100 percent guaranteed. ...

Despite the lure of high-speed, always-on, cable modems and ADSL, a lot of people continue to use ISDN, or its BT Highway variant. Part of this reason is because you get a guaranteed data speed per ...

Regularly backing up your hard disk is vital if you want to avoid spending hours re-installing your operating system, applications and drivers, not to mention recreating your data. Although you can make do with a stack ...

Think of SCSI and the name 'Adaptec' springs immediately to mind. The company has been involved with SCSI controllers from day one, and produces one of the largest range of adapters and associated equipment. With many ...

To set a potential scene... perhaps you might have a digital camera which takes Compact Flash (CF) memory cards and an MP3 player which takes SmartMedia cards, and perhaps neither device has a fast USB connection. ...

If you're wondering about the 'Fun' in the name of this modem, in this case it seems to mean 'Transparent Green'. Or it might refer to the picture on the box, of a young woman roller-blading ...

There has never been a better time to buy a personal global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver for finding out where you are and where you are going. Yesteryear's slow, inaccurate, expensive, PC-hostile and cumbersome GPS units ...

Many things designed for the office end up at home. Goodness knows how many Microsoft Office 2000 CDs and even sticks of PC memory have been 'liberated' from the office environment. And that's not to mention ...

Fed up waiting for ADSL? Don't have a cable connection? Don't want to pay £50 a month for broadband Internet access? If your answer to these questions is a resounding 'Yes', then EuroSky's satellite-based broadband Internet ...

There have been devices like this around for donkeys' years. The Cybex Switchview is a keyboard, monitor and mouse switch that allows you to control either two or four PCs (depending on which model you choose) ...

The Psion Travel Modem is designed as an add-on for either the new Psion Revo or the Psion Series 5. It connects to either, not using a cable but via the infra-red feature built into EPOC32, ...

We reviewed the original Sharedware card quite a while ago (read our review). It's an ingenious device that allows two people to use the same computer simultaneously, for different tasks. You need an extra keyboard, mouse ...

SCSI is still seen by consumers as a high-end interface with plenty of potential problems. Which is, to a large extent, true, and is one reason why SCSI is conspicuous by its absence on Apple's iMac ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) came of age last year when Apple and Microsoft finally provided proper support for the standard on their respective iMac and Windows 98 platforms. Connecting a modem to your PC is ...

Adaptec is the king of SCSI connectivity devices and currently offers two PC Card (PCMCIA) SCSI cards. The 1460 is the jack-of-all-trades model, working with virtually every operating system (including OS/2 and even DR-DOS) along with ...

With just over four months to go until the beginning of a new millennium, there are still plenty of non-compliant PCs out there. PCs which may either fail to correctly 'roll over' from 31st December 1999 ...