Reviews
Independent write-ups after weeks of end-user experiences and testing.
You may often find indispensible advice here and a no-nonsense attitude to evaluating the products.
We don’t go for the bits-and-bytes approach but aim to address the core factor: value-for-money for the average end-user.
Written by Paul Moons
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12 May 2008
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| Homestar PURE |
Segatoys’ Homestar PURE is a home planetarium, which like its
astronomically expensive museum counterparts, projects images of the night sky onto a ceiling. Unlike its museum cousins, however, the Homestar PURE is small, simple to operate and at $122US, very affordable.
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Written by Martin Regtien
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12 May 2008
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Note: This article first appeared in the December 2007 issue of AVIATOR magazine with many more photos.
(PDF: http://hilair.com.au/pdf/SkyArrow.pdf)
Ever since I first saw pictures of the sleek and – dare I say it: supersexy – Sky Arrow over 10 years ago now, I knew this machine looked like the aircraft I would want to own one day.
In my dreams I visualised this Italian design wrapped around me, piercing the skies. Well, at 95 knots cruise you’re not gonna be lightning fast but, really, flying this magnificent machine, wouldn’t you want the experience to last?
We checked out the Sky Arrow when it passed through Albany on the way back from being demoed at a few air shows along the East Coast.
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Written by Kevin Cheng
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09 May 2008
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Accessories
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| Callpod Dragon |
From Monkeys to Dragons, DigitalReviews Network is traipsing through the animal kingdom in search of good gear for our readers. Thanks to Callpod we have the opportunity to review the Dragon, a Class 1 Bluetooth headset.
On paper, the Callpod Dragon sets itself apart from the rest of the market by its long range, functionality and looks. Let's take a deeper look at this beast with "brute Bluetooth power".
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Written by Martin Regtien
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01 May 2008
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| Linksys WRT100 |
Recently we made mention of the Linksys WRT100 RangePlus Wireless G Broadband Router with MIMO from Cisco.
In that News Post we gave all the specs and the main features so we won't have to go into those details too much but will focus now on how easy it was to install.
And also: what sort of range can you expect from the RangePlus? Will it cover your whole house?
Read on to find out.
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Written by Paul Moons
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18 April 2008
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Video
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| Popcorn Hour A-110/B-110 |
In March we took a look at the original Popcorn Hour A-100 and it quickly became our in-house media playback device of choice. Sure, it wasn’t perfect - but its near flawless display of 1080p content, along with its incredible ability to playback almost every file we threw at it, made us sit up and take notice.
Now, less than five months later, Syabas has announced two new Popcorn Hour models which we have been lucky enough to get our digital hands on.
Read on for our experiences with the new Popcorn Hour A-110 and B-110 NMTs as well as a comparison and update on our take of the original A-100 Network Media Tank.
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Written by Paul Moons
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13 April 2008
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| D-Link DNS-323 |
Computerworld has recently reported that in the next few years the sum total of Earth’s data will be in the two zetabyte vicinity. One Zetabyte is equal to one billion gigabytes.. in case you were wondering.
My personal and family data storage is still a little off that, but it has increased significantly since the birth of our child four years ago. This data is mainly in the form of digital photos and videos or work documents and it is all over the place: DVDs, CDs, hard drives in different PCs, etc.
The D-Link DNS-323 NAS RAID
box offers a relatively inexpensive long term storage solution which can keep all your data in one place, allow universal access and when setup as a RAID 1 device, secure it from hardware gremlins.
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Written by Martin Regtien
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10 April 2008
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| Wattson |
Watts in a name? Well, that must have something to do with electricity, doesn't it?
It's pretty elementary as Sherlock Holmes would say to his inquisitive offsider, Watson.
I love the name that DIY Kyoto has given to this energy monitoring device.
Do It Yourself Kyoto is also pretty indicative of the type of company behind this.
So let's see what the Wattson is capable of telling us apart from all the pretty colours and numbers.
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Written by Martin Regtien
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08 April 2008
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Storage
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| Seagate |
A slew of Seagate drives landed on our desk the other day in the middle of what seems like the hard drive hunting season: after the initial flurry of excitement about increased SSD capacities it looks like hard drives are back in the limelight with new capabilities.
We will be doing in-depth reviews on a number of them such as the Drobo robotic storage system, the Rebit and hopefully also the Seagate BlackArmor.
For now, let's have a very quick look at what else Seagate offers:
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