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The second installment relating to the Apple Ipod...
If you have read PArt 1 you will know that i had a Firewire card to install in order to use the Ipod.....installing the card couldn't have been easier. Plug and play with Xp..very easy. Plugged in the docking station via the firewire lead and plugged the Ipod into the station. First bit of good news was that it charges the Ipod from the docking station. having read the manual this seemed not to be the case but thankfully was.
What is small, silver in colour and has a 3D feature? This is not a trick question and Ill even answer my own question. It is the Optio S4 camera from Pentax.
Some recent PCs have a TV card normally provided at a price here you can have one for less than £30, you also get Teletext, Window in Windows and a personal PVR.
5.3 Mega Pixel, 8x optical zoom, these two items alone should be enough to encourage any keen camera user to read on.
Apple Ipod? You must have heard of it? Well following a long seduction process from press and media i have taken the plunge...
I received a text from home on Wednesday lunchtime informing me that my 'pea-pod' (what it is with women?) had been delivered. I drove home with the wind at my back...new toys and all that. Opened the box and WOW. The Ipod looks good on telly and in magazines but is even better in the flesh...smaller and lighter than i was expecting..feels only slightly heavier that my phone (T610) and is a bit wider.
Little did I think six weeks ago when I reviewed a couple of 8 in 1 card readers that the one missing component would be available so quickly.
They may have started life as basic devices but now keyboards and mice have definitely moved on a stage or even several stages. An example of this transformation can be seen with Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop kit.
I attend a number of presentations and events during the year and occasionally you are given a small gift, sometimes a flashing pen or even a shoulder bag, normally whatever it is, is emblazoned with the company logo. However last week as I was leaving an event one of this nameless companys employees handed me a 30x20x32cm box.
A mousepad is a mousepad right? Wrong, lots of colours, designs, shapes and sizes but all doing more or less the same job? Wrong, they provide somewhere to allow you to control the mouse cursor to move around the screen right? Right but
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Perhaps the ultimate gadget, something to get you from A to B and then even to C and D. The latest versions of Auto Route and Route Planner probably the most popular packages of their type in the UK.
With more and more devices now connecting to USB ports the available ones soon fill up, if you have a modern machine with a couple of ports on the front changing items need not result in a slipped disc, however more access to ports is still important.
A beautiful phone and in the top three of the 'T3' poll for gadget of the year i beleive...
I have always had Nokia phones and to be honest although i like the interface and menu's the designs and functions can get a bit boring...(the new 6600 is emphatically excused from that statement). For my latest upgrade i took a wild card and, having read Donato's review, went for a T610.
Any visiting H G Wells type time-traveller would think that humanity was suffering from an epidemic of violent ear-ache. Everywhere you go people have a hand to their ear as if to relieve pain and seem oblivious to their surroundings. Of course it is a case of mobile phone-itus that is the cause rather than ear-ache although having to listen to outbreaks of various ring tones and loud one-sided conversations could induce pain in the ear. Still we love mobile phones and all the new features they bring.
Up until recently I would never have associated the Korean company
LG with mobile phones. This ignorance was due to the fact that LG had
ignored the UK market when it came to this type of device. This
situation has now changed as LG is looking to increase its market share
of 5.2% that it has built up in other areas of the world.
This is a somewhat different MP3 player, the neck strap has volume and track controls built into it, change them by just pressing the fabric of the strap.
Size is not everything where have I heard that before? at least with a Notebook mouse that is certainly true. Small it certainly is, but it still has two buttons and a wheel.
How Lisa Seduced me and Changed my Life
A fond farewell to a loyal friend.
A laser with attitude, dont get me wrong it performed flawlessly, it has extras as standard, how many lasers at this price have built in duplex, and it works fine.
What can Santa bring the keen photographer who seems to have everything? This device stores images when away from your PC. So no more taking umpteen media cards, now you can take as many images as you like.
Close range phone mugging?
Review of Logitech® diNovo Media Desktop
Let's start with the diNovo's biggest flaw, the price. At £200 this has to be one of the most expensive keyboard mouse combos ever to go on sale. But is it worth it? Forget the price for a moment and the diNovo is a fantastic piece of hardware. The first thing that strikes you is the keyboard is split into two parts, the main keyboard and the 'media pad' (otherwise known as the extra keys on the right hand side of a normal keyboard that you rarely use).
Until very recently the cost of a colour laser has been beyond the end user, only businesses could afford the cost of hardware and toners, suddenly they are affordable.
Many years ago I purchased a second hand LaserJet 6MP it performed flawlessly until recently when for some reason it comes up with an undefined error, to repair it would cost more than the new 1010.
Now a mere 650MB from a CD is far from enough space so DVD is the obvious way to go. There are however two distinct formats namely DVD+RW and DVD-RW this unit is one of the former.
Like memories, photographs tend to fade with age. Fortunately a solution is readily available. Captured digital images can be stored and retrieved from your hard disk for printing. The results should be as vibrant and fresh as the day they were captured. You just need to match your photographic needs and financial considerations with an appropriate digital camera.
Priced at £249.99, the 3.2 mega pixel Olympus C-350 Zoom digital camera sits between budget offerings and high priced professional models. The C-350 Zoom follows the usual design format favoured by Olympus for its Camedia range of products. Silver in colour and reasonably compact in size, although I would not want to carry it around in my pocket for lengthy periods, the camera's lens remains concealed behind a sliding cover until it is needed.
Most will know this is one huge plus for HP that came out of the merger with Compaq. Although I have used several Pocket PCs I have never before used an iPAQ.
Does your notebook have a naff sound chip, has your desktop system got built in sound, is it one of those that is difficult, or near impossible to disable, here are two possible solutions.
A couple of years ago Corel launched the first edition of Essentials; it certainly was an essential purchase. Now at last Essentials 2 is available is this just as essential?
If you promise to keep it to yourself Ill let you into a secret. I can remember when the only choice you had for your listening pleasure was limited to mono sound. Those were the days. Now, thanks to advances in technology, we can immerse ourselves in a surround sound environment using multiple speakers. Whether it is music or gaming, the capability is now within everybodys reach for an enhanced audio experience.
Why should a gadget be just hardware? Lots of software applications can perform a job that either would be difficult or close to impossible without them, the choice then would be to buy the product produced from a third party.
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