Category Archives: Reviews

The 10 Best Tech Podcasts of 2005

By Bish | Published: 20/12/2005 – 23:09 | Posted in Gaming, Personal, Reviews, Technology, Web2.0 | Comments (64)

Podcasting, a format to publish rich media like audio and ultimately video by use of RSS, has come of age in 2005 with an estimated world wide audience of 4.8m people compared with just 800k in 2004. As main stream media giants begin to see the benefits of this emerging technology and bandwidth becomes more readily available (broadband internet access has overtaken dial up in the UK for the first time this year), using RSS perhaps combined with bit torrent will become the formats to publish video. For now I am enjoying this, not so amateur, radio that is easily downloaded directly to my PC and walkman.

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Review: Deskloops (Public Beta)

By Bish | Published: 17/12/2005 – 22:37 | Posted in Reviews, Software | Comments (2)

Deskloops

Deskloops is a product that has been in development a while and has always looked like an innovative way to work. Available only as public beta at the moment it redefines the way you navigate multiple programs in Windows to suit you. The product description does its job pretty well,

"Imagine yourself at the centre of a virtual loop where all the windows you use are spread out around you. Whichever window you need to view can be centred in front of you with a click of a button.

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Review: Flock (Developer Preview)

By Bish | Published: 08/12/2005 – 20:53 | Posted in Reviews, Software | Comments (4)

Flock 

Flock? Excuse me? What did you say? 

Well to those who aren’t quite sure what I am getting at, Flock is an open source web browser that has come on the scene recently shouting pretty loudly about the features its offering. Available at the moment only as a developer preview but based on Firefox’s code, the Flock team have come along and put together a modern, slick looking browser with some radical ideas.

The Social Scene

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Mario Kart DS

By Bish | Published: 15/11/2005 – 22:24 | Posted in Gaming, Reviews | Comments (0)

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It appears all our juvenile hopes have come true, well nearly all! Mario Kart DS is a winner and it now looks as though I am gonna have to buy a DS now as well.

“IGN 95
It’s hard to imagine how Nintendo’s going to improve on what they’ve done for this stunning portable rendition. There’s so much gameplay and depth in this design, moreso than the series has ever had in the past.

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GTA:LCS Review?

By Bish | Published: 14/11/2005 – 19:47 | Posted in Gaming, Personal, Reviews | Comments (0)

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Even if it’s about three weeks after the US launch and a good week after the UK, I’ve just started playing GTA:LCS and first impressions are really good.

Every bit of tech, format or device needs a ‘killer app’ and the PSP as advanced as it is, is no different. This aint no shrunk down baby GTA, this is (appears) to be the real deal. The graphics appear to be real slick and the gameplay is really refined. This could have been just another PS2 port with soul destroying load times (Midnight Club 3 anyone?) but Rockstar appears to have gone to town and done the business on this one. (You can tell its the festive build up, GTA for the PSP and Mario Kart for the DS)

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