This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com and Sharewarejunkies.com in 1998. It was good DOS software that seems to have slipped through the cracks of time. We can’t find a download link for it anymore. By John Guilfoil PC Desk is a Personal Information Manager for DOS. It is a very handy and smallin size utility [...]
Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse
Dec. 20, 2007 2 Comments
The Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse is the most complicated consumer computer input device ever made. It’s also one of the best. It’s a mouse, designed for gaming, that Microsoft says was inspired by the Master Chief from Halo and the Mazda Senku Concept Car, among other futuristic muses. “Microsoft Hardware conducted research with hundreds of gamers [...]
PC Engines Alix2 Network Board
Dec. 15, 2007 2 Comments
Here’s a review for the savvy reader. Are you frustrated with the off the shelf routers you can buy in the store? Does your hardware crash on you at the worst possible moment? Does your Best Buy router not have the option to stop your room mates downloads from slowing down your internet? Well, one [...]
IOGEAR’s Bluetooth Audio Transport
Dec. 7, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Bluetooth Audio Transport is an all-in-one earbud wireless audio product that works with cell phones, stereos, iPods and any other audio source you can think of. Though there are some considerations to make — this isn’t a good idea for an iPod or another portable MP3 device. The way the Audio Transport works is [...]
Monsoon Hava Gold
Dec. 3, 2007 Leave a Comment
Moonsoon Multimedia’s HAVA Gold is their response to the popularity of the Slingbox and other place-shifting video devices. The device allows users to view and control live television on networked computers via broadband and mobile phone service. It’s novel technology and priced right. The new product has made an impressive splash since its summer arrival [...]
iHome iH85B Cycler – Music to pedal to
Dec. 3, 2007 Leave a Comment
iHome’s new iH85B takes the earbuds out of your ear — and that’s one less distraction when you’re riding a bike. With all the bad press plastic bottles are getting lately, the iH85B, designed with a bike mounting bracket is a great replacement. It takes four AA batteries or an AC adapter for home listening. [...]
16gb iPod Touch reviewed
Dec. 2, 2007 Leave a Comment
After months of what seemed like torture following the release of the iPhone — and listening to consumers, technology experts, news anchors and my peers bragging about it — I must admit that I was tempted buy one. But I had to weigh a huge termination fee on my existing wireless plan in addition to [...]
Call of Duty 4 Strategy Guide
Nov. 27, 2007 1 Comment
The Call of Duty 4 Bradygames official strategy guide is one of the more impressive guides out there right now. It’s almost 270 glossy, full-color pages long and includes just about everything you could imagine out of the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC-CD variants of the game all in one. The guide contains all [...]
Palo Alto’s Marketing Plan Pro
Nov. 27, 2007 1 Comment
I was really impressed with Palo Alto Software’s Marketing Plan Pro. There’s a ton of people trying to be entrepreneurial and being their own bosses, and they (we) can’t always hire PR people and a team of marketing pros. In our case, a marketing class from Northeastern took us on as their semester project and [...]
Sony Cinescore Professional Soundtrack Creation
Nov. 19, 2007 Leave a Comment
As YouTube videos become better and better (shockingly…the videos are getting better, the photos are getting better, but now if only as many people would learn where commas and semicolons go…) and high-definition video cameras come down in price, we are starting to see amateur and small-business video rise in production value. That’s why software [...]
Video conversion via dongle
Nov. 1, 2007 3 Comments
I took a look at the ADSTech Instant Video To Go (PC) and Elgato Turbo H.264 (Mac). Both are H.264 USB Hardware encoders. Users can plug one of these little devices into your USB port and then instead of using the computer’s CPU to convert the video it uses the USB dongle to do it [...]
Anthony Gallo A’Diva Ti satellite speakers
Nov. 1, 2007 1 Comment
In an electronics store, Anthony Gallo speakers the usually the ones in the demonstration room that sound amazing but look like something off the space shuttle, and are sometimes the same size. The A’Diva Ti satellite speaker system isn’t nearly as mammoth. It’s another in a series of trendily tiny speakers with big sound — [...]
Sony Sound Forge
Oct. 2, 2007 Leave a Comment
Sound Forge is Sony’s professional digital audio production suite. Long considered one of the frontrunners in its class, SF has garnered much attention and has won the hearts of many with a well-polished user interface and lots of attention to detail.
Roxio Popcorn 3
Oct. 1, 2007 1 Comment
Roxio Popcorn is an all-in-one multimedia ripping tool. Of course, they don’t like to use the word ripping — Roxio prefer’s “popping.” Hence the name. But Popcorn is a versatile conversion tool that works for non-encrypted DVD’s, disc images and VIDEO_TS file folders. As long as your DVD’s aren’t protected (so forget about most Hollywood [...]
iSee for iPhone
Aug. 8, 2007 Leave a Comment
After getting the iPhone, the hottest new gadget on the block, I needed to find some way to protect it. It wouldn’t be good to get a brand new iPhone scratched up after a week, so I tried iSee from Contour Design. In an odd note, the directions show how to take the iSee apart [...]
Bejeweled for the iPhone
Aug. 2, 2007 Leave a Comment
Not much to say. It’s Bejeweled for the iPhone. Well done.
Blast Magazine’s iPhone review
July 2, 2007 Leave a Comment
I took the sim card out of my old formerly-Cingular phone and inserted it into the shiny new iPhone. I plugged it into my computer. iTunes came up said it found an iPhone and asked me to activate it. iTunes listed the phone number attached to the account asked a couple questions to verify who [...]
Otto Surround Sound Stereo Headset
July 2, 2007 Leave a Comment
Most people think of gaming as a visual medium, and why not–most of the action takes place right there on the screen, where you can see it. However, much like the movies, video games are a multi-sensory medium. Take games like last year’s Condemned: Criminal Origins for example. Half of the game’s effect–half of its [...]
Parallels 3.0
July 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Parallels allows Intel-processor Macs to emulate an x86 system. This allows them to run all versions of Windows and even Linux. Pre-Windows 2000 support is questionable in Parallels. Windows 98 and below will run but won’t have any of the integration features. Parallels 3.0 represents some major improvements in that area. There is now some [...]
iHome iH7R iPod alarm clock
May 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
iHome has just come out with another upgrade to the everyday alarm clock. Compatible with all versions of the iPod, except for the new versions of the iPod Shuffle, the iH7R makes waking up and falling asleep smoother than ever. The volume of the alarm and sleep settings increase and decrease smoothly with gradual wake [...]
