Archive for Andy Lynn
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Home Cinema
Philips launches new LCD and Plasma IDTVs with Freeview
30 June 2005For some people, even the one-off payment and lack of contract for Freeview Digital Services is too much to contemplate. Philips has decided to solve this by making the tuner part of the TV cost across its two quartets of LCD and Plasma screen televisions,...
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Home Cinema
Toshiba Refreshes LCD TV Range
30 June 2005Buoyed by the tie-up deal with Microsoft earlier this week, Toshiba has turned its attention to the screen you'll be watching its Microsoft-controlled HD DVD discs by launching its High Definition ready ‘WL56' LCD TV collection with three large screen...
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Audio
Creative Takes Zen Approach to combat iPods
2 March 2005Creative has turned to the cashback deal in order to try and steal a march in the neverending chase after Apple's iPods. The new Zen Micro 4GB MP3 player will effectively debut at $179.99 after a $20 cashback voucher is sent back to Creative. For people...
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Online
Arise Sir Bill - Gates Knighted
2 March 2005Bill Gates has become the latest recipient of an honorary knighthood at Buckingham Palace for his contribution to British Enterprise and on another note, his philanthropy in the shape of large overseas donations for food and/or vaccination programmes,...
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Gaming
GTA: San An gets Ad Ban
2 March 2005Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA) boasts an impressive, stand-out advertising campaign, but for some people the in-game footage in the two advertisements, largely set to music, were too violent. After drowning in the flood of 8 complaints,the Advertising...
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PhonesThe Sony Walkman Calls on mobile phone market
2 March 2005Sony's Walkman reached a quarter of a century as long ago as last summer. (see here.) However time and competition marches on, so with an established hold in the mobile phone market, it was only a matter of time before the brand found itself combined...
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Online 3.5 out of 5Microsoft Money 2005 review
16 November 2004It's a cruel joke by the webmaster to give me MS Money to review again, as he knows I'm the sort of person who's broke in the third week of every month and hanging on by the fingernails in order to survive until pay day. In other words, I'm the sort of...
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Online 4 out of 5Ulead VideoStudio 8 review
14 June 2004Ulead is slightly better known in the UK for its PhotoImpact! Range of software and also Cool3D as bundled with early All-In-Wonder Radeon range. VideoStudio is the company’s flagship title though, now here in its eighth version. Recognising the digital...
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Gaming 3.5 out of 5Hitman Contracts - PC review
26 May 2004Ten years ago Activision raised the standards for PC Gaming to console level in terms of presentation with the sublime classic Mechwarrior 2, paying particular attention to the music as well as the action. Instead of multiple formats, there were different...
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Gaming 3.5 out of 5Breed - PC review
22 April 2004Well well, it's finally here. Technical problems scuppered a planned preview of Breed last year and we applied the patch to the review copy before proceeding, only to find that that stopped the review code from working too. Two installations later we...
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Gaming 4 out of 5Painkiller - PC review
22 April 2004Want a movie-style pitching line to sum up Painkiller? We'd called it “Serious Damned”. In fact it's a return to the good old days of Doom I and II with another graphical makeover like Serious Sam's. The paper thin plot has you in purgatory and conscripted...
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Cameras 3.5 out of 5StudioLine Photo 2 review
25 March 2004This product is not related to the newly relaunched 1980s styling gel. Instead, it’s a digital camera editing package with the emphasis on preserving your pictures. It possesses its own interface with hallmarks of Windows XP’s photo handling, but...
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Gaming 3.5 out of 5Uru Ages Beyond Myst - PC review
17 March 2004True 3D is the major selling point to the latest in the Myst Series; you can play from the third person view (default) or switch to first person, although sometimes the game will make its mind up for you, in the style of Tomb Raider. Yeesha, the 200 year...
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Online
Be safe for the day with Personal Firewall Day
15 January 2004Today is Personal Firewall Day. It doesn't quite have the same emotional warmth and fuzziness as Mother's/Father's/Grandparent's/No Smoking Day to immediately name four other more exciting or worthy celebrations, and we certainly won't be sending Personal...
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Online
Royal Mail produces UK’s first printable digital stamp
15 January 2004They were pioneered and introduced in America four years ago, but the digital stamp has now been released by Royal Mail for Britain. The principle is the same as the US version; stamps are paid for online, and then sent electronically. The user can then...
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Cameras
Kodak’s Digital Transfer makes APS format fade away
15 January 2004It's been seen as a late move but the full impact of Eastman Kodak's move to total digital camera manufacture in the US and Europe was unveiled, as it revealed that its own APS camera will also be conspired to history. 35mm camera manufacture will be...
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Online
Tough Competition takes its toll on Dixons Maiden Chain
14 January 2004The Computer World aka Tiny and Time as they were, are now on their third major rebrand as The Computer Store and with every relaunch there are store closures as shop rents and leases expire or are folded to save money. It's a sign of the company's strength...
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Online
Reports of Win 98’s Death Greatly Exaggerated, XP SP2 in summer 2003
14 January 2004First we were told the plug would be pulled on Windows 98's support on 15th January 2004 including the Second Edition previously excluded from the Christmas 2003 clearout. However business pressure from companies eager to pay Microsoft (MS) for more support,...
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Gaming 4.5 out of 5UNREAL II XMP Multiplayer - PC review
30 December 2003UPDATED: 31st May 2004. We already looked at Unreal II's single player side at http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/review.php?reviewId=247. Thanks to the desire to make an Xbox version and internal competition with the Digital Extremes, and Epic Megagames, Legend...
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Online 3.5 out of 5Adaptec XHUB2 2-Port USB Hub review
19 December 2003Adaptec, major player in SCSI devices, has diversified into the USB and Firewire area with ease, bringing over its internal PCI boards with the various external connectivity methods that are now taken as common place. Thanks mainly to Apple, Firewire's...
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Online
KaZaA Lite shut down- By KaZaA
18 December 2003Sharman Networks, original developers of KaZaA, see quite a future in their ad-supported and spyware riddled peer-to-peer software and don't want a rival based on its code impeding their growth. Therefore, every link accessible from within K++ was rendered...
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Online
Coca Cola to launch UK Music Download service
18 December 2003Sensing the disquiet in the UK about closed American download stores, Coca-Cola are to launch a paid-for download service. Like the drink the service is expected to go global. Hooking up with OD2, who already supply Tiscali, Freeserve, HMV, Tower Records...
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Gaming
Real Gun Pulled at LA Multiplayer Games Tournament
18 December 2003"All over bar the shooting" would be an unfortunate way to view the events at a recent Counter-Strike Gaming Tournament organised by CXG. Let's let Joseph F Hill of CXG take up the story in his own press release; At 4:30am (CST) I was informed by CXG...
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Online
Microsoft in Xmas software clearout
18 December 2003While ordinary folk rush to catch the final rubbish and recycling collections before the holiday disruptions, Microsoft are doing much the same thing. The difference is, Microsoft's "junk" consists of old utilities and Operating Systems which are finally...
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Gaming 4 out of 5Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne - PC review
16 December 2003In the summer of 2002 you had to marvel at a game that sold almost a million at full console price, when it was a PC game- such was the loyalty commanded by Warcraft III Reign Of Chaos finally getting released. At the same time Neverwinter Nights was...