Stories by Damien Donnelly

BenQ DW1650

BenQ's latest burner hasn't changed dramatically since the previous version, the DW1640. In fact, almost all the specifications are the same. The only difference we could see was a slight increase in power requirements and an update of it proprietary...

Linksys WRT543G3

With the introduction of the Linksys WRT543G3 router, you have more Internet choices.

Seagate Momentus 5400.3

Seagate is the first hard drive vendor to release a hard drive that features perpendicular storage technology. Perpendicular storage offers a breakthrough in the way data on your hard drive is stored. It will no doubt herald a new era where hard driv...

Goowy Goowy

Goowy unifies email, calendar, contacts, RSS, games and widgets functions into one central interface within your browser window.

Toshiba Tecra A7

The Tecra A7 is a well-featured, desktop replacement notebook featuring Intel's Core Duo T2300 dual-core processor and a 15.4in screen. It has a fairly small footprint of 360 x 267 x 36.8 mm and weighs a light 2.8kgs, making it very mobile. The Tecra...

PC Game -- Rise of Legends

Arthur C. Clarke once said: "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic." Had he been in the land of Aio, the setting for Rise of Legends where magic and technology clash in an epic battle, then he may have thought different...

Acer Aspire 5672WLMi

The Acer Aspire 5672 has been designed so you can use your notebook as a versatile communication portal. This has been achieved by the introduction of a small Bluetooth VoIP phone that charges while it is docked in your PC Card slot. The phone relies...

Torrential reign

If you're an aspiring artist then there's a good chance that you don't have a penny to your name because you spent it all on your Gibson Les Paul guitar, booze and fast women, leaving nothing left for the important stuff - like actually getting your ...

Acer PD100

Weighing just 2.17Kgs, the Acer PD100 is a great projector for anyone on the move. Its small form factor (230x238x123 mm), resolution of 1280x1024 and built-in speaker make this an extremely versatile, multi-function unit, but it is definitely not fo...

Sony DRU-810A

Sony has blitzed its DVD-burning competition with the release of the DRU-810A - the fastest dual-layer burner we have tested.

StumbleUpon

Like most people, you probably turn to Google to satisfy your online searching needs. But its very effectiveness in turning up thousands of results, which you have to trawl through manually, can soon take the fun out of your quest for knowledge.

PC Game -- Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Civilization IV brings new aesthetic and strategic elements to world domination, without losing any of the elements that made the Civilization series such a successful franchise. Graphical enhancements are significant; everything is now in 3-D, and y...

DeviceWall 3.1

Most of us are using firewall, antivirus and spyware protection, so it would be fair to assume you are safe from externally-based information crimes. However, the increased use of portable storage devices means the threat to company data from the ins...

TI AMD Deluxe 3800

The TI AMD 3800 Deluxe is quite a bargain, it is among the first sub-$1500 desktop PC's we have seen with a RAID array. Two 80GB SATA drives have been configured in a RAID 0 array (for a total of 160GB), which boosts the read and write performance to...