3dfx Voodoo4 4500
In the beginning 3dfx was the king of the 3D accelerator market with its Voodoo and Voodoo2 chipsets...
3M Renaissance Mouse
The 3M Renaissance Ergonomic Mouse is a departure from all ergonomic mouse predecessors. Described as the first vertical mouse that is not a joystick, the 3M Ergonomic Mouse design principle is to keep the arm in a more comfortable, natural position and the hand in what is known as the handshake position.
AOpen CRW-1232
Supporting a maximum 12-speed burning, though without BURN-Proof, the AOpen CRW-1232 still manages to put on an outstanding show...
Avatars
Avatar is the ancient Sanskrit word for the spirit made flesh, but its been hijacked by Western culture. Davey Winder investigates.
Avatars in the real world
Perhaps the application causing the most excitement in the corporate sector is that of the serious clothes shopper. Its not an altogether new concept, indeed the very rich and famous already have the
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Voice recognition software has always been considered to be a rather curious product...
GCC Elite 21 DN
For a laser printer manufacturer, GCC has an unusual history. Formed in 1981, the company originally developed enhancements for coin-operated video games such as Ataris Missile Command and also brought us PacMan.
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Photo-realistic avatars arent the only fruit. How about a custom built model that you can create off the peg? Such a beast can be found already at the likes of the Virtual Zones Sci-Fi World and Cycos
Living on the Web For Dummies Australian Edition
The Web is an important tool that many of us use to communicate, access our bank accounts...
MPZoo Portable MP3 Disc Player
There are now literally dozens of MP3 players on the market. However, the arrival of MPZoos MP3 Disc Player brings a slight change in direction
MYOB First Accounts
The lead up to the introduction of the GST was a boon for anybody with a localised accounting package...
PalmPro 7765PE DLP Projector
For those in the business of presentations the data projector runs hand in hand as a tool of the trade almost as important as the notebook computer.
Philips 140S
They say that once you've used an LCD display on your desktop you dont ever want to go back to a CRT...
Photoshop 6
Adobe Photoshop is so dominant when it comes to print and Web-based bitmap-editing that, in many ways, it has come to define the whole field...
PowerColor MTV 2000 USB TV-Tuner/ Video Conference Combo
In the mid-1990s a debate raged over whether we would eventually end up watching television on our computers, or whether television would take over from the PC. In 1995 a PC called the MyGeNie went on sale boasting that you could watch TV while you worked...
Ricoh MP7125A
While BURN-Proof technology has recently become very popular, it is not the only method for preventing buffer underruns. Ricoh has developed its own method, called Just Link.
Samsung ML-6060
Despite the recent flood of low-priced, high-quality inkjet printers, theres been comparatively little movement on the budget laser front, with Kyoceras FS-1000 (reviewed issue 34, p85) dominating our A-List since September last year.
Sony CPDG400
Design-wise, the Sony possesses an imposing no-frills presence, and yet is reasonably compact in dimension, enabling it to be used in small offices where space is a premium.
Sony DCR-TRV11E Digital Video HandyCam
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the size and performance of this digital format. The cameras are a fraction of the size of the old camcorders we used to lug around the countryside, the batteries last longer, the tapes get smaller and, the quality gets better.
The Australian Guide to the Internet
Tony Stevensons book, The Australian Guide To the Internet, provides an excellent introduction to the absorbing world of the Internet.
The synthespians
Computer-generated actors have, surprisingly, already hit the big screen and Im not talking about Toy Story either. It all really started with Jurassic Park and those dinosaurs, which were a lot more
The virtual Davey Winder
I was recently in London for a business trip, in fact while writing this article, and I came across an opportunity that was simply too good to miss. I said to myself what the hell and paid a visit to
Ulead PhotoImpact 6.0
Creating a half-decent looking Web site usually requires pulling out the big guns - a heavy-duty graphics program, a few choice plug-ins such as Alien Skin for button and text effects and some sort of HTML editor (and a text editor, of course, for die-hard hand coders).
Virtual girl power
The first wave of high-profile avatars has come in the shape of Ananova and Vandrea, two virtual newscasters that might look similar on the surface, but behind the scenes are very different creatures
Virtual sexism
Although many people have focused on the question of why people should feel the need for a virtual representation of themselves, claiming that the desire for an alter cyber-ego is a manifestation of s
Write Choice
The CD-RW is close to becoming an ubiquitous part of a new PC. Exactly how this came about is difficult to pinpoint, but one reason is the growth of storage-hungry multimedia. More people are using th