Jun 5, 2011
The Netgear N600 is a well designed, high quality router that should satisfy most users’ needs not just in today’s ADSL world, but well into the the NBN future. Providing wireless connectivity on both the 2.4 and 5.0 GHz bands, the setup of this modem was one of the easiest that I’ve encountered, and the connection points provide for a measure...
Feb 27, 2011
While NetGear’s Stora device is essentially just a NAS – Network Attached Storage – it carries with it some very elegant and well implemented design concepts. Let’s start with the basics, though: a NAS is a device that you can connect to your home network that stands apart from your computers, and should be accessible by any of the...
Feb 20, 2011
This week, Sony announced a new music streaming service. Called “Music Unlimited”, their service allows you to listen to music streamed from their servers. Sony has a huge music catalogue, which includes labels under the banners of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music. We’re told that the initial...
Feb 6, 2011
As you know, we have previously spoken highly of the various JAYS products. For the uninitiated, these products consist of a number of different in-ear headphones for personal listening to your iPhone, MP3 player, or similar. A couple of weeks back the new a-JAYS Four earphones arrived in Australia, courtesy of the local distributors, Smart IT, for us to...
Jan 9, 2011
EuroSmartz PrintBureau is an app for the iPad and iPhone that promises much, but delivers very little. At AU$16, it’s actually a very expensive application, but even if they were giving this away for free, it would be overpriced, such is how poorly I view this particular application. For instance, it’s supposed to deliver direct printing from your...
Dec 12, 2010
Coming on to the market just in time for the holiday season is the ultra cool Parrot AR Drone. Here we have a device that has very few redeeming qualities and not much in the way of practical uses, but it’s just so much fun, and it’s lack of practical uses is a part of its appeal: this one is just for fun, and there is absolutely nothing at all wrong...