Fed up waiting for ADSL? Don't have a cable connection? Don't want to pay £50 a month for broadband Internet access? If your answer to these questions is a resounding 'Yes', then EuroSky's satellite-based broadband Internet ...

There have been devices like this around for donkeys' years. The Cybex Switchview is a keyboard, monitor and mouse switch that allows you to control either two or four PCs (depending on which model you choose) ...

The Psion Travel Modem is designed as an add-on for either the new Psion Revo or the Psion Series 5. It connects to either, not using a cable but via the infra-red feature built into EPOC32, ...

We reviewed the original Sharedware card quite a while ago (read our review). It's an ingenious device that allows two people to use the same computer simultaneously, for different tasks. You need an extra keyboard, mouse ...

SCSI is still seen by consumers as a high-end interface with plenty of potential problems. Which is, to a large extent, true, and is one reason why SCSI is conspicuous by its absence on Apple's iMac ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) came of age last year when Apple and Microsoft finally provided proper support for the standard on their respective iMac and Windows 98 platforms. Connecting a modem to your PC is ...

Adaptec is the king of SCSI connectivity devices and currently offers two PC Card (PCMCIA) SCSI cards. The 1460 is the jack-of-all-trades model, working with virtually every operating system (including OS/2 and even DR-DOS) along with ...

With just over four months to go until the beginning of a new millennium, there are still plenty of non-compliant PCs out there. PCs which may either fail to correctly 'roll over' from 31st December 1999 ...

Responding to an expanding hole in the market, modem manufacturer PMC Consumer Electronics has given its ISDN terminal adapter a make-over by adding fax and voice messaging capabilities to its specification. The result is the Pace ...

There are now plenty of low-cost ATAPI/EIDE and SCSI-based CD-R and CD-RW drives on the market, making it easy for home and business users to create their own CDs, including backups, music compilations (copyright permitting) and ...

More than five years after the USB standard was first proposed, and several years since virtually all new PCs have shipped with USB ports at the rear, manufacturers are really starting to work on flooding the ...

As most users have probably discovered by now, thanks to the 'impurities' of the telephone network, 56Kbps modems rarely attain their full rated speeds. Somewhere in the low 40s is more likely and, although this is ...

This is not exactly PC hardware, but it's a small, cute, electronic gadget, so it merits a review. The IC Memory Recorder is basically a small audio recorder for note-taking, but instead of using micro-cassette tapes ...

This has to be one of the weirdest computer-related products on the market. Available either singly (for intensive mouse users) or in pairs (for frantic typists), the WristGlider is a small cushioned pad with a fabric ...

When CDs were first invented, Tomorrow's World ran a feature showing how tough they were. You could stamp on them, scratch them and even use them as frisbees, but you couldn't damage the audio tracks stored ...

CD-Recorders, and the blank disks they use, are now so cheap that many people can afford to create their own CDs. Whether for backup, archiving, music-making or software piracy, the volume of 'gold' CDs in circulation ...

One of the big problems with any technological change from one standard to another is that there's a cross-over period in which neither standard is standard enough. This sort of thing happens quite often in the ...

ISDN originally stood for 'Integrated Services Digital Network'. After a few years it became 'It Still Does Nothing'. But it seems that UK businesses, and even a few home users, are catching on to the idea ...

When is a PC not a PC? When it's two PCs. Or even three PCs. The first version of Sharedware, a hardware/software product designed to allow several people to use a single PC simultaneously, was launched ...

It had to happen some time. The ISA bus, which has been a feature of PC motherboards since the beginning of the 1980s, is due to be phased out. Or rather, if the PC99 'standard' put ...