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Articles in this issue

Clear Vision

The last time we covered 19in monitors was way back in October 1998 when the 19in screen size was only just becoming a viable option for consumers and home users. At the time the cheapest screen on te

Encarta Reference Suite 2001

Microsoft has been producing its Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas since the early 1990s, but despite several attempts it has never produced anything that could rightfully claim to be an Australian edition...

Fujifilm FinePix 40i

The Fujifilm FinePix 40i is one of a new breed that will perform both still and video capture as well as accommodate playback of MP3 digital audio

Fujifilm FinePix 4700 Zoom

If were to believe the hyperbole, this technology will do for digital technology what the invention of the parachute did for skydiving.

Gateway Performance 800

On rare occasions, however, we receive a Gateway PC that does not live up to our expectations, and unfortunately this is one of them.

Generations Family Tree Grande Suite v8.0

The booming interest in genealogy created by the Internet has provided a lucrative market for programs that help the home user research and create their family tree...

GoLive 5

With advanced packages such as the latest Photoshop (to be reviewed next month) Adobe is the leading software developer when it comes to traditional graphic design...

Hacking Exposed - Network Security Secrets & Solutions

It's a truism that you set a thief to catch a thief. Hacking Exposed takes this truism into the 21st century...

Hercules 3D Prophet II MX

Back in September Hercules impressed us all by blowing away the competition in our 3D graphics card Labs..

Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra

There is quite simply no holding nVidia back. Hot on the heels of the top-performance GeForce2 GTS chipset, with its capacity for up to 64Mb of fast DDR...

Keeping it moving

The future holds a lot of interest for industrial designers. Now they are unshackled from the beige box we can expect to see computers in all shapes and sizes. In the United States you can already get

Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition at a Glance

This book aims to provide information on Microsofts latest operating system, in a fast and easy to digest style.

Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition for Dummies

In the tradition of the Dummies series, spends the first part of the book familiarising readers with hardware terminology

More than just a colour

The impact Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive have had on the personal computer is immense. At Macworld in Tokyo earlier this year half of the exhibition floor was taken up with colour accessories - no longe

Not super enough

Raw computational power is being brought to bear on every stage of genome research from the moment the biologists tip their goo into a sequencing machine...

Olympus Camedia C-990 Zoom

The first thing that struck me about the Camedia C-990 Zoom was that it looks and feels like a camera.

One seductive Apple

Designer Jonathan Ive and Apple boss Steve Jobs unleashed the iMac - a brightly coloured, translucent desktop computer like nothing the IT industry had seen before. Despite the stunned mutterings and

Out of the office and into your living room

Apple's success can be measured not only in the improvement to its bottom line but in the number of would-be imitators, all of whom have been sent packing by the courts. It also has shattered once and

Philips 109S

Philips is no slouch when it comes to the monitor game, and the proof is in the outstanding Philips Brilliance 109P10...

Samsung AnyCam MPC-M10

Over the last few years there is no doubt mainstream PCs have leant increasingly towards visual applications. The power of visually communicating has grown in acceptance as more and more products and applications reach fruition.

Samsung Digimax 35 MP3

Samsungs multi-use camera comes with everything youd expect and then some. Twenty-first century style headphones, a transparent carry case, USB connector cable, tilt/swivel stand and our review camera came with a 16Mb (RCA brand) Compact Flash memory card.

Style on the move

It is perhaps understandable that mobile phones should be the real leaders in the techno fashion stakes; after all there are close to one billion of them in circulation and the number is growing daily

Super-hero computing

Supercomputers crunch data that could hold the secret of life, the weather and the effect of nuclear war. David Tebbutt investigates.

Supercomputing in your sleep

Internet supercomputing is in its infancy, but it holds a lot of potential for the future of computers and science...

Supercomputing, the sequel

Just as supercomputers have played a key role in unravelling the genome code...

Technology and Style

Is it worlds colliding or simply the inevitable? David Hellaby investigates the merging of fashion and computing.

Something associated with mice, bugs, crashes and screen dumps is

The Complete Reference: Web Design

Sometimes a book gets everything right, including the back cover bumpf. The Complete Reference: Web Design is a fine example - flip the book over and youre promised all you need to plan, build, and maintain dynamic Web sites that balance form and function.

Turning a duckling into a swan

That presents a serious problem to the printing industry, which until now has not had to worry too much about the aesthetics of the devices it manufactures. Now the manufacturers are having to put a l

Using Red Hat Linux: Special Edition

The first problem you face when reviewing a Linux reference title is that you know youre on to a loser.

VideoLogic Vivid!

VideoLogic is a name few people would now instantly associate with graphics accelerators. In fact, its parent company, Imagination Technologies, was present at the birth of the PC 3D accelerator field in June 1996 with its PowerVR card.

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