Month: April 2006
BT 8 meg broadband – wait in line
If you use BT broadband and hope to get an automatic upgrade to the new 8 meg service, you might well be left disappointed. BT Retail's 2.3m broadband customers will not be automatically upgraded to the new service -…
Omisys multimedia MPEG4 DVD player
You do feel that the clock's ticking on portable DVD players, with downloads and more compacts likely to force them out in the fairly near future. But there's still life in the market now and prices are low for…
Little Britain talking pen
Guaranteed to amuse your workmates for an hour, then annoy them intensely for the rest of the day – it's the Little Britain talking pen. Just think of the fun you can have when a click of the pen…
Motorola's V3i RAZR in 3 new colours
Yes, it's that time again – time for Moto to release special edition colour variants of their popular RAZR brand. This time it's the V3i RAZR that's had its colours done, arriving in these darker, some might say more…
Mobile network 3 claims key role in Gnarls Barkley Crazy download story
You probably already know plenty about Gnarls Barkley the band who went from zeroes to heroes last week when their single topped the UK charts without any of their CD singles ever going near a record shop. Well possibly…
Word – Faster Replace Trick
Microsoft Word has lots of useful undocumented features, here’s one from Propellerhead that will save you a lot of time and trouble. The next time you want to replace a chunk of text forget the backspace or delete keys,…
ElGato EyeTV DTT for Macs
There are loads of gadgets on the market for converting your laptops for digital TV signals and into TV recorders – but not many for Macs. Here’s one, from the newly-launched laptopstuff – the ElGato EyeTV. The EyeTV DTT…
Life-size Scarface mannequin
Have you ever seen the 80s remake of Scarface with Al Pacino? It was probably the first film I saw that genuinely made me feel slightly ill (during the motel torture scene if you must know). If you've not…
Fujitsu shows UMPC with fold-out keyboard
The shape of things to come? Fujitsu are currently showing off some concepts for portable computing at Milan's Triennale di Milano – with their idea of how an ultra-mobile PC should look certainly drawing attention. A long way from…
Samsung Q1 UMPC to ship at £800
UK mobile device retailer Expansys has become the first company in the UK to begin taking orders for the most talked-about device of the recent CeBIT – Samsung's Q1 ultra-mobile PC. The 22.8 x 14 x 2.7cm Samsung Q1…
