AirDroid provides an easy way to manage apps, files, contacts, ringtones, media and much more Android is designed as a completely standalone product able to function without the need for a desktop companion app. This is a good thing. Yet there are times when being able to connect your phone to the desktop is a … Read more
Find out how easy it is to send a text message from your PC When working at your PC, it can be distracting to turn your attention away from whatever you’re doing to focus on another device. The scale changes; the keyboard and display are smaller. If you’re at work the distraction can prove costly. … Read more
n early October, CNN revealed that veteran voice actor Susan Bennett was the voice behind Siri until Apple changed it in iOS 7. But even more interesting than Siri’s identity is the question of how a person’s voice is transformed into software that can synthesize any text thrown at it. My Voice Is My Passport … Read more
Deftly evading the conundrum of how to brand its core tablet after four previous models— the last two of which were largely similar— Apple’s iPad Air arrives with a new name, but more importantly, a refreshed design. Truth be told, the iPad Air looks a whole lot like a super-sized iPad Mini, but the sublime … Read more
Apple invented the graphical user interface as we know it, so OS X will feel familiar to any computer user. Let’s take a closer look The dock The Dock runs across the bo4om of the screen and ives you quick access to commonly used apps, documents and folders. The Mac’s le browser, called the Finder, … Read more
One Mac for all The eye-poppingly designed aluminium iMacis one of the most radical desktop omputers you’ll see, yet it ontinues a lear evolutionary path from 2004’s iMac G5, the ‘rst Apple omputer built into an LCD display. It’s a tried and tested format, but this revision leverages new manufacturing techniques to tessellate high-end omponents … Read more
MUST-HAVE FEATURES such as Smart TV, DLNA playback and integrated Wi-Fi are filtering down to mainstream Blu-ray players. This means there’s no longer any need to spend a fortune on a high-end model that does everything. Samsung BD-F6500 costs less than and has built-in Wi-Fi, lots of image quality settings and many online services such … Read more
SOUND BARS ARE still relatively new to many people in comparison to surround-sound speaker systems, but we’re already expecting more from them than simply better audio quality for watching TV and films. Philips was clearly on the same wavelength as us when it produced the Fidelio HTL9100. This sleek sound bar splits apart into surround-sound … Read more
The iPhone 5C’s screen looks fantastic. Viewing angles are wide, contrast is excellent and colours look vibrant and rich thanks to the IPS panel ALTHOUGH RUMOURED TO be a budget handset designed and priced to take on budget Android handsets, the iPhone 5C is a direct replacement for the iPhone 5. However, the iPhone 5C … Read more
THE SONY VAIO Tap 11 is a Windows 8 tablet that comes with a keyboard so you can use it like a laptop. The keyboard is completely separate from the main tablet, with no cradle or detachable magnetic strip – just a tiny docking port that snaps the keyboaid to the bottom of the main … Read more
Panasonic invented the concept of compact cameras with interchangeable lenses. However, last year’s GF5 was a disappointment, with image quality and controls that lagged behind the competition. The GF5 has now been discontinued, but some retailers still have limited supplies on sale. The GF6 brings improvements in almost every area. There’s now a mode dial … Read more
Asus took the most daring design route, but its remote- desktop mode is problematic. While Dell, Lenovo, and Sony adopted the same essential design for their respective all-in-ones, Asus took a completely different approach. In fact, a better description of Asus’s machine might be “all- in-two,” because the Transformer All-in-One P1801 is essentially two discrete … Read more