Month: April 2006
Bypassing Bill – Ms Alternatives
Strange as it may seem there are some people who just don't like Microsoft, and we hasten to add that Propellerhead is not one of them. MS products and their funny little ways have kept us in gainful employment for…
Oono Mini DAB radio
There's nothing groundbreaking about a new portable DAB player, but it's less common to see one that also throws in an MP3 player and voice recorder, like this Mini DAB from Oono. Looking uncannily like an iPod, the Mini…
Timex Trail Runner Bodylink System
Gone are the days when a watch was simply about the time and date. These days the technology is up there with any of your mobile devices, n example of which is this Trail Runner Bodylink System from Timex….
Carphone Warehouse does free broadband
As hinted at yesterday, Carphone Warehouse has unveiled details of a new bundled broadband and phone service, using the strapline "free broadband forever". The price significantly undercuts similar services from leading players such as AOL, BT and NTL/Telewest. To…
Sonos ZonePlayer 80 music system
The latest version of the Sonos wireless system – the ZonePlayer 80 (ZP80) – caught our eye at this year’s CES. Well, the good news is that this multi-room music player is set to hit UK stores by the…
Pure launches sub-£50 DAB radio
Pure always go slightly off the mainstream in terms of looks with their DABs and their new budget model, One, certainly makes a mark in black, white and most obviously, a bold pink. The One has 20 combined DAB…
Microsoft announces fix for "critical" flaw
PC users are being urged to apply software patches that close a "critical" vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Since coming to light in late March, the flaws have proved popular with hackers, who have created hundreds of webpages that use…
Webaroo – browse the internet offline
How would you you like to take the web and browse it later, offline, at your convenience? That's what a new, free software service called Webaroo promises to do. Webaroo takes the most relevant parts of the web and…
Rabbit Point offers free international mobile calls
It is what us mobile obsessed types dream of – a phone that allows you to make and receive international calls but doesn't come with the after shock of those horrendous network call charges. Which is why we have…
Speed Up Acrobat Reader In Firefox
If you have a broadband connection and read a lot of PDF (Portable Document Format) documents you may well find that the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in can be a quite slow to open in Firefox, which can be quite frustrating….
