Month: August 2006
Dash For Speed, Test Your Connection
There are plenty of websites that test the speed of your web connection but few of them look as good or are as easy to use as the one Propellerhead has been road-testing at Speedtest.net. The dashboard design is…
Boeing Axes In-Flight Internet
Here’s some more bad news for travellers, Boeing has just announced that it is scrapping its Connexion division, which was behind the plane-maker’s in-flight Internet service. Boeing has spent upwards of $1.5billion over the past six years rolling out…
Writely: A quick review of Google's online word processor
Now that Google-owned Writely – the online collaborative word processor – is accepting new applications again, I thought I'd take a quick look and see if it's any good. It works only in IE or Mozilla browsers, so Firefox…
Liverpool tops the internet Premier League
With new Premiership season just a matter of hours away, everyone's got an opinion about who will be crowned champions – and if popularity on the net has anything to do with it, the winners will be Liverpool. They…
One Minute Video Review: T-Mobile's MDA Vario II the first HSDPA phone to go on sale in the UK
We have waited a very long time for HSDPA phones, but now they seem to be coming in droves. T-Mobile looks like it will win the race to be first to market with its MDA Vario II, which goes on…
Zero G Wall Climber – drive up a wall
Here's a toy that will, quite literally, drive you up the wall – the Zero G Wall Climber. It's one of those pointless toys that will impress your mates, give you loads of fun, then be confined to a…
Samsung's swinging X830 music phone heads to Europe
Slider phones are just so yesterday – if you want to be ahead of the crowd, you've got to swing – with a phone like Samsung's X830 music phone. The swing aspect quickly transforms this miniature to gadget from…
Uni-Creation All-in-1 Card Reader with Calculator
Another hybrid gadget – this time, the Uni-Creation All-in-1 Card Reader with Calculator, not to mention a world clock and alarm. Whether all this added functionality is really necessary is open to question. As a standalone card reader, it;s…
Cygnett GrooveBase iPod speaker system
Yes, another speaker system to turn your iPod into a home audio system. This time it's from Cygnett with their GrooveBase battery and mains powered speaker system. It should give you plenty of sound, offering an output of 2…
Time to kill off Caps Lock? It's a campaign
Do we really need that Caps Lock key? Pieter Hintjens thinks it's time to scrap it altogether, and has launched the CAPSoff campaign to get something done about it. The Caps Lock key is blamed for all sorts of…