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What is £69.95 + £69.95 the answer in this case is £99.95, not bad maths but the price for the two products purchased separately against being acquired in the same box.
The two products are Adobe Photoshop Elements v3 and Adobe Premiere Elements. Adobe are one of the few companies that still manage to maintain a reasonable price for there software with the likely street price for a full copy of either being around £500. Of course the 'Essential' units do only a proportion of what can be achieved with the full product.
PDA games are big business and I see that Landware also have offerings for Smartphones. Here I am putting two games for Palm systems through their paces.
Naim are a name best known for high quality audio equipment. They do however also have a CD label and a unique way of producing called True Stereo.
There are many dedicated in car navigation systems. Now there are solutions for Pocket PC and Palm. Here is one involving three companies in a single box and a further one that has exclusive rights to sell it.
With a vault in your pocket, your personal data can make the trip with you. Just ask Sony.
Not that long ago a DAB radio was a luxury, and probably also on a PCI card. Pure Digital are probably the biggest name in DAB today and they have a range that includes the Elan.
It is small, multi-functional and ready to store n go. For more details read on:-
This 21.3inch panel can be used either portrait or landscape and is easily big enough to display two pages of a Word document side by side. That however is only a small part of its abilities.
Surprisingly it fits in the same space taken by my 17inch monitor in fact I have an area about 18x40cm free in front of the panel that was just not available with my monitor in place. Whereas I used my monitor at 1024x768 the panel has just the same readability at 1280x1024 and the amount of extras I can fit open on the Desktop is incredible.
Memories fade as do photographs if you dont look after them. But how?
Having recently looked at a dedicated Photo Printer (Epson Picture Mate 4/11/04) here I give a good workout to another the HP Photosmart 375, this even has the ability to view images prior to printing.
It started life as Shareware, became a popular commercial product and now has a new owner meet Paint Shop Pro.
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Home&pid=1047023911984 It is with more than a touch of sadness that I have to report that
this review is based on the last version of Paint Shop Pro to appear
from Jasc. Incidentally I am reliably informed that the company name of
Jasc was formed from the initial letters of the founder's two main
interests - those of Jet planes and Software Company.
MP3 players are now often much more, here I am looking at a small rectangle unit that has a large storage capacity and also the ability to keep your music playing for 18 hours.
If your are fed up with the unpredictable printing speed of an inkjet then a laser is the answer, however should you also need scanning and copying then you need a MFU.
MFU (Multi Function Unit) sometimes called an 'All in One' are more common with inkjet technology but there are units available using a laser and the Samsung SCX-4100 is one such offering. It is a mono laser so all printing and copying can only achieve grey scale, however the scanning unit is colour so you can scan to a file or application on the PC and work with colour images.
Yes this is a mobile phone, but it is also so much more. Digital camera and also able to take video. It can play MP3 and also Java games. However as yet it has stubbornly refused to do the washing up.
It is not amazingly small or light, nor
is it thin in fact by modern standards you may even call it obese. It
is all but 2.5cm thick and 10.5cm tall, the width is close to 5cm. Rotate it in half and the height
becomes 16.5cm. There are 14 keys plus another five and a four position
wheel that controls the near 5x4cm screen that determines everything on
this camera/phone.
A lot of good software is available at bargain prices, here I am looking at four products all available for less than £5 each.
Having recently looked at two cordless rodents here are two further offerings, the first for the notebook user, nice and small. The second for those with style, yes its a
designer mouse this one even has a cord.
A chance to see some of the latest developments in the gadget world, direct from key manufacturers
This years event is very different from last years. Last years show was held in a big hall
at Olympia covering everything from digital cameras to 'personal submarines'. This year was
a more sedate and professional affair, mainly populated with the major manufacturers. Gone
this year are the little and often interesting side-stands from the smaller companies.
Not a cry from a street vendor offering saucy postcards but the ability to print excellent borderless 15x10cm images without any wires apart from a mains lead.
I have used Paint Shop Pro for more years than I care to remember. It was initially a shareware program that did things others could not. Now umpteen versions later a new package called Studio.
Any all in one (multi function unit) has a huge thing in its favour it takes up little space. However for all the devices of this type I have seen I think this is the smallest.
Not a name you instantly think of when talking about quality digital cameras. Obviously when thinking of film cameras Kodak is a big name, although they have made digitals for years, here at last they make a giant leap forward.
Unlike a lot of oblong boxes that a lot of digital cameras are today this looks like a conventional film camera. It is 10x9x7.5cm maximum dimensions with the zoom lens contracted. The weight is around 400grams with everything attached. This has a 10x optical zoom and is a 5megapixel offering. The quality of images - even in auto mode - is excellent and anyone with a little knowledge cannot fail to take great images with the DX7590.
Adding impact to your photographs is the task that Ulead has set itself with a new release.
Carrying your data in a pocket has never been easier with a USB storage device.
You do not always need or want - to spend a fortune to find something the kids will love. Here I am looking at a few such items that could solve present problems. All items I am looking at cost £15 or less.
Described as a union of design and technology, the Siemens SL65 could be the phone for you.
Buying in bulk is nothing new for the DIY minded, here however are four separate products on the theme of house and garden maintenance and improvement.
Looking to upgrade your DVD drive capabilities then dual layer technology is the way to go.
Not all mice are created equally otherwise we would be deprived of the luxury of choice.
Portable printers are always useful, a portable printer that runs on batteries very useful, a portable printer that runs on batteries and fits in your pocket, mega useful.
I've wanted a solid-state MP3 player for some time for exercising but had been put off by the capacity (64M seemed common). This little device came to the rescue.
The diminutive MPMan MP-FOL8 measures about 3" x 1" by / "
(don't have a ruler here so that's about right!). It does a lot of
things. Of course the main reason for buying such a device is to listen
to music, which it does very well. It supports both MP3 format and
Microsfts proprietary WMA format. Storage is 256Mbytes putting many
other devices to shame.
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