Saturday 29 March 2008

Nokia N95

The new Nokia N95 Smart phone has built-in sat-nav, MP3 player, Wi-Fi, 5-megapixel camera and 8GB memory, so plenty of room for files, music, games, photos and great SatNav, even has the Spiderman 3 film pre-installed.

Typical price: £489

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The review is on CNet.co.uk: Nokia N95

Saturday 22 March 2008

The Fiat 500

The Fiat 500

The new Fiat 500, starting from £7,900.00, is a cheap and well designed small city car, the UK version has three trim levels, Pop, Sport and Lounge; featuring excellent design for the interior, it gives BMW's Mini One a run for its money when it comes to modern retro design.

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For more information see Fiat UK: Fiat 500

Sony Playstation 3

Sony PlayStation 3

Excellent though pricey console, now starting to be worth the buy now that the main games catalogue is out, with the Home concept of a free online community, the PS3 has a good online area for you and your friends/family and other gamers to hang out virtually and arrange online gaming sessions in a Sims 2 like environment, with loads of content to keep you interested, another good addition is adding a Sony PSP to the PS3 as a second controller.





Available on GamePlay.com from £299.99 plus 1 game.

GamePlay.com PlayStation3

Dementia 13 (Directed By Francis Ford Coppola)

Dementia 13

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Roger Corman


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"Following the death of her husband, Louise Haloran realises that she won't inherit any of the family fortune when Lady Haloran dies. In an attempt to secure her future she concocts a plan to convince the family that he is still alive..."


Very good film, now available for free on Public Domain, the film can be downloaded on BitTorrent, but it's worth buying the DVD though, for only £3.97 and free UK delivery on Amazon.co.uk it's a very good bargain.

Amazon.co.uk: Dementia 13

Thursday 20 March 2008

GTA IV

GTA IV - release date April 29th, the new instalment is heading for Playstation3 and X-Box 360, still the best free roaming action game there is, no news of a PC version as yet, but if there is expect it to take ages.



Pre-Order for £39.99 on both PS3 and 360 from GamePlay

Prada Fragrance For Men & Women

Always a good present for your girlfriend or boyfriend and yourself, is a good fragrance, the first fragrance from fashion house Prada, apparently took three years in the making, smells great though.

Women’s Prada Perfume - EDP 50ml Spray £38.50

Prada Perfume - EDP 50ml Spray

Men’s Prada Men EDT 100ml Spray £38.50

Prada Men EDT 100ml Spray

Available from: ScentStore

Battlestar Galactica - New Series

For fans of SciFi without the cheese, a new series of Battlestar Galactica is starting on SciFi Channel on Friday April 4th.

SciFi Channel - Battlestar Galactica

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Wednesday 19 March 2008

Samsung SM-2032BW/MW Pebble 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor

The Samsung SM-2032BW/MW Pebble 20" Widescreen LCD Monitors
The old Syncmaster has suddenly got some great design, with two new models the SM-2032BW and SM-2032MW HD Pebble Monitors are a refreshing change from the bland uninspiring designs of PC monitors of old, very couture design that may actually tempt people to give their home PC prime space in the living room; The BW is just a monitor, however the MW comes with a TV tuner, both have the same great looking design.

Check out Samsung UK for more information.


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Brabus SmartForTwo Coupe/Cabrio

When you think of Brabus, usually it’s the expensive supercars based on Mercedes for the super-rich, however for the ordinary car buyer conscious of the prestige tuner Brabus and its reputation, then the Brabus tuned Smart cars will be right up your street.

The city car has a turbo engine generating 98 bhp, acceleration from 0 to 62 mph in 9.9 seconds, sportier transmission tuning, chassis and suspension components developed specifically for the Smart, large alloy wheels and effective aerodynamic elements.

fortwo BRABUS Xclusive coupé - from £13,520 OTR
fortwo BRABUS Xclusive cabrio - from £15,470 OTR


Smart.com

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Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pi 2515 - Budget Notebook

AMILO Pi 2515

The AMILO Pi 2515 is a good but basic all rounder, the video quality is a bit poor, however it is still an excellent all-around notebook equipped with an Intel GMA X1300 integrated graphics, so it is not a gamers laptop, but it can handle the golden oldies.

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One thing that most tests leave out with budget notebooks are how well they can perform with older games, I've tested this laptop with Halo and GTA III, I wasn’t impressed but the games do work and are at a playable FPS, I haven’t benchmarked these games though, where it comes to anti-aliasing, you may as well forget it, and DirectX/OpenGL effects are a joke, it’s a case of just be grateful that it works.

2D Performance is where it’s at with this laptop, it handles very well with the basic 1GB that it comes with, though I will be upgrading to 2GB of RAM for my one though.

The cheapest price I found for this notebook was from www.tesco.com for £349.00, plus the added bonus of some clubcard points for your groceries [^_~]".

Bad points are that it only comes with 1GB of ram, despite Tesco stating that it comes with 2GB, reading the specifications sheet, it states it only has 1GB and video playback isn’t that great, a cheap upgrade of RAM to 2GB will improve performance, but modules are hard to find though, try Googling for 'Fujitsu AMILO 2515 DDR2 667MHz Memory' and see what turns up, another performance enhancing feature is to use the Flash Memory option in Vista, using the Vista ReadyBoost feature, just slot in a USB pen drive or SD Flash Card and enable the ReadyBoost feature by selecting the properties of the drive, select the ReadyBoost tab on the properties on the dialogue window and enable the feature then select how much Cache you want to use, you can use up to 4GB of Flash memory, which will Cache programs and files for faster access, you'll need a USB pen or SD Card greater then 256Meg for it though.

Tesco - Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pi 2515


Very fast service too.