.NET
Where will .NET lead us? In the first of three parts, Jon Honeyball recalls the birth of a new realm in computing.
When it comes to large-scale sweeping changes in the computing wo
CLEANPRINT
an Australian product that effectively cleans out the gunk, by following the page path through the printer.
CREATIVE Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX
Creative has raised the stakes again with the Audigy, this time from 16- to 24-bit sampling.
CREATIVE Sound Blaster Live! DE 5.1
The SB Live! is one of the most commonly used cards, and as such, is a good yardstick for the performance of the new generation of sound cards.
Current world
All the pieces were in place for a royal battle. Sun and Microsoft had fallen out, but Java was well established and had a growing band of followers.
In the Redmond camp, things were moving apac
HERCULES Game Theater XP
Four USB ports on the rack also turn it into a useful powered hub
Internet storm
Then the heavens fell in. In 1995, Bill Gates decided that the Internet was going to be huge. Everything had to take on an HTML nature and the battle was on with Netscape.
One of the fir
Kyocera FS-1800
Mono laser printer
Microsoft does Java
To many peoples surprise, Microsoft liked Java too: it invested heavily in the technology and the capabilities of the platform, writing both development tools and the JIT run-time for the Windows plat
Pinnacle Express
Like its direct competitor Ulead DVD MovieFactory, Pinnacle Express can be used to create VideoCD and SVCD discs as well as DVD titles. Unlike Ulead's program, however, it supports slide shows as well as video...
Pioneer DVR-A03
Like the Ricoh entry, the Pioneer DVRA03 is a versatile unit, and is capable of burning all CD formats with the added advantage of burning DVD-R and -RW discs...
PLANET EARTH: OCEANIA
The first of seven planned DVDs in the series, 'Planet Earth: Oceania' is a beautiful disc. It's a DVD comprised of highresolution images of the Earth's coastlines, beaches, oceans and islands taken from space by the Space Shuttle and MIR Space Station...
Primordial soup
The big picture goes back to Windows 2.x days, which may be surprising, as this takes us to before the beginnings of the World Wide Web. But theres an underlying theme here, which is application devel
RICOH MP5120A
The Ricoh MP5120 justifies the many years of press releases and delays that led to critics forming a prematurely negative impression of the emerging DVD+RW writing standard.
SONIC BOOM
If you are serious about getting great sound from your computer - and putting sound into your computer - you need to make sure you are packing the right hardware to do the job.You can now buy any numb
SONY CRX175MC1
When it comes to CD-RW drives, both the Sony models in the Labs this month represent top quality and performance.
SONY CRX85U
The Sony CRX85U external USB 2.0 is even smaller than the Plextor and the Iomega Predator models, and given its square shape and thin profile, as well as the top loading pop-up lid for the CD, you could be forgiven for thinking that this CD-RW drive was just a DiskMan.
STOREX CD ORGANISER
If your desk is anything like mine, the monitor is ringed with untidy stacks and toppled piles of CDs. It's not all chaos - there's a chronological order to it - the most recently used discs are those thrown on top.
THE AUSTRALIAN GUIDE TO ONLINE BUSINESS
The Australian Guide to Online Business provides a thorough overview of the various facets involved in establishing and managing an online business.
THE WRITE BURNER
CD-RW drives have been a mainstream PC peripheral for a considerable time now, and in most cases, can be found as a standard component in a typical entry level PC rig. We are also well past those frus
TRIUM ECLIPSE
Mobile phones have become powerful and flexible office tools, but there's still one area that's dated - the screen. Trium's Eclipse aims to remedy this, by combining the usual spread of phone features with a 120 x143 pixel 256-colour screen. But do you really need it?
TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR PC
Is software or hardware you installed on your PC causing your system to crash? Perhaps you are having rouble with a USB connection or your computer takes a long time to switch between programs?
VIDEOLOGIC SonicFury
The concept of sticking all that ever-so-sensitive analog circuitry into a box that resides outside the electrically noisy confines of a computer seems conceptually sensible.
What to choose?
The battle on our desktops between two global corporate entities gets boring after a while. We just want to solve our business problems and get on with life. I think neither party believes it can win