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Last year, Amazon’s Kindle eReader was the runaway must-have Christmas gift, and Amazon look to have scored another hit with its cheaper successor, first announced in October 2011. Released in …
Kindle £89 ereader: great screen, superb value, wonderful price: review Read MoreOld school headphones seem to be enjoying something of a revival, with all sorts of hip names putting out heavily branded (and often comically oversized) headphones. If in-ear ‘phones aren’t your …
The best headphones you can buy for around £100: AKG and Grado Read MoreBilled as “delivering the best file sharing experience ever,” the Drobo FS network attached storage (NAS) box lets you slide in as many as five hard drive, so you just …
Drobo-FS – great NAS drive, fiddly apps and a hideously unfriendly media server Read MoreLaunching in the US on Saturday – but with no UK release scheduled – early reviews of Amazon’s ground breaking new $200 Kindle Fire tablet have been coming in, with most critics impressed …
Amazon Kindle Fire tablet – early reviews say it’s a winner Read MoreSporting deliciously old-school retro looks that give it that 1960s street-shooter look, Fujifilm’s X10 enthusiast compact camera has just had an early hands on preview from the folks at DPReview.
Fujifilm X10 enthusiast retro camera gets hands-on preview [video] Read MoreWe have to admit that our eyebrows raised a tad when we heard that Sony were releasing their Sony NEX-7 compact dSLR sporting a frankly ludicrous-sounding 24MP sensor. Respected photo site, …
Sony NEX-7 24MP interchangeable lens camera picks up rave first review Read MoreIf you make music at home or you want to put a voiceover onto your Youtube video you’ll know that recording the human voice in a normal room can sound …
Make a great sounding recording booth on the cheap [video tutorial] Read MoreSo, the LaCie 2TB external hard drive which we wrote such nice things about last year has started to make really nasty clicking noises, less than a year into its life. …
We gaze in awe at LaCie’s consumer-unfriendly technical support Read MoreTo capture those summer holiday moments, you can’t go wrong with a decent super-zoom camera and in our eyes, you won’t find a better mix of features, high quality optics and all …
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 – our king of the superzooms for the summer Read MoreElbowing its way into the space currently occupied by the likes of HTC’s budget priced Wildfire handset, the Samsung is wolf-whistling cash-strapped folks looking to move up to a smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy Mini Android-powered budget smartphone – review Read MoreWhen we’re not hammering down on our keyboard we’re often to be found thumping away at our Pearl Traveller drum kit downstairs, and after a bizarre gardening accident destroyed our last bass drum pedal, …
Tiger single bass drum pedal reviewed, proves fantastic value for drum botherers Read MoreWe’ve lost count of the amount of weather apps that we’ve installed over the years, and although the fantastic Palmary Weather PRO remains our #1 fully fledged weather app, the widget wasn’t quite getting our meteorological …
Aix Weather Widget – our new favourite Android widget Read MoreBack in the early days of the web, building a site was pretty easy – you just had to get your head around the rudimentary HTML code, lob in a …
Xara Web Designer 7: drag and drop web design on a budget – review Read MoreWhen it comes to calendars for Android phones, we’ve tried just about every one we can think of – Touch Calendar, CalenGoo, Pure Grid and more. Although we’ve yet to …
Checkmark Calendar – the best calendar app for Android? Read MoreAimed at perambulating music fans who like to stay just one click from their next call, the Jabra rhythm headset is a budget priced ‘premium’ headset fitted with a built- in mic and answer/end …
Jabra Rhythm in-ear headphones review – well worth a tenner Read More