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Kindle £89 ereader: great screen, superb value, wonderful price: review

Monday, Dec 26, 2011Monday, Dec 26, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

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 …

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The best headphones you can buy for around £100: AKG and Grado

Thursday, Dec 22, 2011 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Old 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 …

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Drobo-FS – great NAS drive, fiddly apps and a hideously unfriendly media server

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011 - by mike s - 6 Comments.

Billed 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 …

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Android / computing / portable / reviews

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet – early reviews say it’s a winner

Monday, Nov 14, 2011 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

Launching 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 …

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Fujifilm X10 enthusiast retro camera gets hands-on preview [video]

Saturday, Oct 29, 2011 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Sporting 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.

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Sony NEX-7 24MP interchangeable lens camera picks up rave first review

Monday, Sep 19, 2011Monday, Sep 19, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We 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, …

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Make a great sounding recording booth on the cheap [video tutorial]

Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 - by Piers Gibbon - 1 Comment

If 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 …

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portable / reviews

We gaze in awe at LaCie’s consumer-unfriendly technical support

Monday, Sep 5, 2011Monday, Sep 5, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

So, 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. …

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 – our king of the superzooms for the summer

Friday, Jul 29, 2011 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

To 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 …

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Android / mobiles / reviews

Samsung Galaxy Mini Android-powered budget smartphone – review

Tuesday, May 31, 2011Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Elbowing 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.

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Tiger single bass drum pedal reviewed, proves fantastic value for drum botherers

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

When 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, …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / reviews

Aix Weather Widget – our new favourite Android widget

Friday, May 20, 2011Friday, May 20, 2011 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

We’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 …

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reviews / software

Xara Web Designer 7: drag and drop web design on a budget – review

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Back 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 …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / reviews

Checkmark Calendar – the best calendar app for Android?

Tuesday, May 17, 2011Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - Leave a Comment

When 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 …

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audio / portable / reviews

Jabra Rhythm in-ear headphones review – well worth a tenner

Friday, May 13, 2011Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Aimed 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 …

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