At first glance the Globetrotter is nothing more than an external LaCie Mobile hard drive with Mandriva Linux pre-installed. Yet Mandriva (until recently known as Mandrake) really has a winning combination here, which becomes apparent when ...

The principles behind DESlock+ aren't difficult to grasp. The package includes a Windows application that lets you protect sensitive data by encrypting it, using either the popular 3DES (Triple DES) algorithm, the even more secure AES ...

The eBay phenomenon, where people around the world sell whatever they want to seemingly endless queues of eager online buyers, has become an industry in itself. One of the latest products to service online auction sellers ...

I'm a bit of a rucksack junkie. I have different rucksacks depending on how much I need to carry at any one time, and whether I am hiking or just going to the supermarket - yes, ...

There's something totally captivating about the idea of writing onto paper and having your words of wisdom automatically translated into machine readable (and editable) text. Logitech has already had one stab at bringing to market a ...

This is a very difficult product to categorise. It claims to increase the life of any Lithium-Ion battery and takes the form of a simple sheet of black film with some attractive metal flecks, which you ...

Most accessory kits for notebook users are designed purely for international travellers, containing foreign power plugs and phone jacks. The Notebook Road Warrior Kit, on the other hand, is for everyone, offering a core set of ...

Back in the old days, microscopes to keep the kids entertained were a messy business. Collecting the samples to view on the various slides was a challenge, as was keeping all the bits in one place. ...

Memory sticks are all the rage now, especially if you're in a high-pressure profession, constantly on the go and wanting to keep a reasonably large amount of data with you at all times. The chances are ...

In an age where PC gaming is a serious business and multiplayer gaming via the Net is the biggest growth area, the dedicated gamer is demanding higher quality in everything from graphics and frame rates to ...

Bluetooth has not really taken off as a technology for wireless stereo listening: its forté is more in the realms of wireless mobile phone conversations. But you can combine these two worlds with the i-Phono BT420EX. ...

At first glance, you could be forgiven for approaching the HP MovieWriter DC4000 with cynicism. It's billed as a device to transfer your old analogue video and camcorder tapes to DVD and, as such, it would ...

Rumours of the death of the low-cost Digital Data Storage (DDS) tape format appear to have been exaggerated. The name may have changed but DAT 72 is, in effect, the fifth incarnation of DDS, based on ...

Despite BT claiming it'll have broadband to everybody in the UK by 2005, there are currently large swathes of the country where it's not available. Most of these are rural areas, where the number of potential ...

Permission to get all the cheap gags out the way in the first paragraph? Ah, splendid. We can't see the point of an invisible mouse mat, it's a transparent concept, it's clear what its problems are, ...

SilentStream is a water cooling system for your PC. For many people, the idea of introducing anything containing water inside the box of their PC may cause sweaty palms, but Global WIN has thought of this ...

We recently reviewed another of Lindy's card readers, and at first glance there's not a huge amount of difference between that one and this. For example, this card reader, like its predecessor, can read and write ...

At the lower cost end of the hardware market, the products on sale are increasingly tools to do a specific job, and little more than that. And fitting firmly into this bracket is Lindy's 6-in-1 card ...

There's a growing trend among makers of PC cases to mount within them connections for the likes of FireWire and USB ports at the front of the case. It's proven to be a great idea, and ...

If you rely on your PC in a home or small office and risk losing valuable data in the event of a power failure, you need more than a simple surge suppressor - you're in the ...