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There are a lot of cheaper phone services available and anyone who makes a reasonable number of calls surely uses one. TeleVoice offers a couple of things that most others do not.
This is a mono printer, it is also a sheet fed scanner, it can send and receive faxes and just for good measure it is also a copier even when the PC is not connected or turned on.
3 or 4 megapixel not enough? Then this offering from Goodmans may well be what you are looking for, a compact 5 megapixel digital camera with a basic 32MB of storage.
Its small it will easily fit in a pocket or purse. Its stylish, at least as far as Im concerned. Its easy to use and its still a powerful digital camera that takes great images.
Computer manufacturers are no longer restricting themselves to internal improvements with fast CPUs and motherboard features but are also opting for a most aesthetic approach to the design of the chassis. Take the Aver Veriton series for example.
A colour PDA with excellent screen resolution, lots of inbuilt RAM, additional storage by SD card and just for good measure a 1.2megapixel camera built in, surely now this will satisfy this old git who owns an antiquated Palm 5x?
All optical zoom lenses I know of protrude from the front of the unit, not so with the Sony Cybershot DSC-T1, the zoom takes place within the unit actioning vertically.
Something very different in price and concept from the normal items mentioned here, however as I know a good number of members are managers or system administrators this is something that is of interest.
The title only covers part of what this unit can do, it can also record and play .wav files as well as having an FM radio, so far it has stubbornly refused to make the tea.
A four megapixel digital camera for a little over £100, complete with a 32MB Compact Flash card, even with todays fast moving price reduction hysteria this is something well worth investigating.
How can one speaker enclosure + sub woofer give surround sound, sorry you are not going to get a technical answer from me, I will just say the sound it gives is excellent.
A new digital accessory from Fujifilm could be said to have a split personality. Although entitled xD-MP3, this device combines the features of a memory card reader and pen drive with its main function of being an MP3 player.
With a CD writer at say 24X or 48X the time difference for burning a 700MB disc is only a few minutes, however the time difference between 4X and 8X for a 4.7GB is substantial because of the volume of data.
It should be possible to burn up 4.7GB of data in a little over ten
minutes, given that only a few years ago it took much longer than that
to burn a CD-ROM then you can see the advances. Of course why should we
need to burn up this amount of data, this is entirely due to bloatware
- badly written packages - that we are all lumbered with using. The
data is there and data in the most important community we have.
I recently looked at the Zire21 a monochrome entry level PDA, here it is the Zire31 this is colour, it is backlit and has expansion both of which the Zire21 did not have. The price for these extras is only around another £30.
A new digital accessory from Fujifilm could be said to have a split personality. Although entitled xD-MP3, this device combines the features of a memory card reader and pen drive with its main function of being an MP3 player.
Whether you call them an All-in-One or Multi-function device, the role is generally the same. Print, copy and scan features are integrated into a single package. Lexmark, preferring the All-in-One designation, has recently added the X1180 to its product portfolio.
Lexmark's new "All-in-One" kid on the block, the X1180, bears a
remarkable similarity to the company's earlier X1150 model. This is not
altogether surprising as the X1180 will replace the X1150 and the only
way to distinguish visually between the two is to check the model
number on the scanner lid. Decked out in grey over black livery, the
X1180 measures 44 x 30.5cm (W x D) at the top and then tapers down to
44 x 26.5cm at the base.
Having a copier, printer and scanner all in one is something that certainly saves space. Can such a device be a jack of all trades or would it be second best at all, as the saying goes master of none.
Lets get my bugbear aired to begin with, no inkjet printer ever prints the stated number of pages per minute. If you want 'x' pages a minute then use a laser printer as that's the only way you will reach expectations. Even if you print short 200 word pages in draft mode you will be lucky to get much above half the claimed PPM. It is 42x31x12cm when sitting there looking inviting, put the unused paper in the tray (face forward) and the 12cm becomes 25cm.
One of Adobes major products is Acrobat, almost all of us will have a copy of three of the Acrobat Reader that is mostly bundled with applications as it saves the manufacturers printing expensive manuals.
Whichever camp you are in regarding printed manuals they are few and very far between nowadays. However Acrobat creates the PDF files we all read when the hardware or software does not work correctly, it costs a lot of money and is not really an option for the small creator. There are a number of clone applications out there and ScanSoft - more famous for scanning software - produce one of the best.
Contrary to what some people think there are other Office products apart from Microsoft Office. Some are shareware others are often bundled but it does not make them inferior, just less appreciated.
There are lots of mouse products around, some from people like Microsoft that sell on name, others sell only on price. However there is another category those that are, or do, something different.
The name may make you think this is something to be avoided, on the contrary it is certainly something to be experienced. The only clue I will give here is that its manufactured by Imagination Technologies.
A nice idea, available elsewhere when you purchase separate programs. This incarnation is easy to use and does just what it says it reads your words to you, this is text to speech software.
If you have trouble reading your own scrawl after a hasty note-taking session then perhaps you should consider a voice recorder as an alternative method.
A review of the Garmin Forerunner 201 GPS running/cycling/walking training companion...
My latest gadget acquisition is a fantastic piece of kit - the . Garmin Forerunner 201 This is a 'watch' that works as a virtual training partner using GPS technology to plot and monitor speed/distance/time. It is designed for cyclists/runners and enables accurate plotting of distances and times.
Perhaps not the most informative title but thats what its called. There is a radio but thats only a very small part of the whole package, and indeed also the weakest bit.
If you shave your face and head this is a hit!!!!!
OK so at the risk of appearing 'over-gay' (Sky One trash tv expression) i bought at the weekend a new electric razor/hair clipper combo and it's great! i bought a Scherna 3 in 1 cordless gizmo. It comes with a power handle that you attach one of three heads to for either shaving (a double foil) currting hair (a diamond sharpened clipper) or trimming a beard/moustache (trimmer).
We have just launched the WAP and WEBsite www.10secfilmfest.com a free festival for all who have an urge to be creative and have a passion for gadgets that can take video, the site has been established to recognise all the new talent that is springing up and give people somewhere to go apart from vodafone live, or Mymotomovies,etc, etc. Very keen on anyone's thoughts, opinions etc as you are a big part of our audience so you are the best people to ask!
PEEG is a neuro technology system which induces brainwaves that help to relieve stress and uneasiness. It also lead to deep sleep, well-balanced mind and body. It gives you a chance to improve your competence and performance as well.
In this case a utility is certainly a gadget as without it all my information would not be able to be read on a PDA. A small task perhaps but vital so this utility is a gadget to move my vital information.
Two different companies, two different cameras, both producing excellent images, about the only thing they have in common is that they both use the XD card format. The knowledgeable reader will now know which two companies.
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