More interesting stuff in this review roundup, for example, a G5 look-alike case, a look back at the original Doom, IWill's ZMAXdp – a dual Opteron mini PC, guides to recovering from a BSOD and cleaning your water blocks and much more. Don’t forget to check out the downloads section for links to the v3334 Ut 2004 demo, Colin McRae Rally 2005 MP demo and the Richard Burns Rally v1.01 patch.

First Alert 2.4GHz Wireless Covert Camera
Quote: “I'll tell you right away when I opened the shipping box this set came in that I was not impressed. As you can see in the shot above, the corners of the product box were worn down for whatever reason. The box just looked old. The second things I noticed were the taped-over product descriptions. Yes, you read that correctly, the product descriptions on the outside of the box had colored tape covering parts of them. Check out the close-ups. Apologies for the blurriness of the second shot, but I think you get the idea. I mean, whoever did this... seriously.... Who were they thinking they'd fool with this crap job?!? Immediately, whatever hopes I may have had for this product were tainted; all due to poor packaging.”

GeekExtreme

Mercury Aeoro One
Quote: “At the first sight one could assume that under the desk a Apple PC is. An absolutely beautiful aluminum housing from the house Mercury, which hears on the name aero One S, lets suspect at the sight fast that it concerns here a quite modern and nobly working housing. Which has to offer the Mercury in things equipment and whether in addition also the often wished quality impression can convince, we will gladly somewhat more near describe you on the following pages.”

TecCentral



Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse Review
Quote: "It all started with an alliance between Logitech & Agilent where they revealed that a singular wavelength of laser light is capable of providing much greater surface detail than the LED found in the regular optical mice. As Logitech knew that there would be high market demand for such a great innovation, the typical cost of 1,000 USD for laser measuring system was reduced to an 80 USD mouse with this technology. According to Agilent, the laser mouse was found to have 20 times more sensitivity to surface detail than optical mice, and in addition to the laser capturing 5.8 megapixels of data every second, this technology had to surface ASAP and here we see it today in retail stores and in everyone's budget."

Hardware Pacers

Interview with Camino lead developer Mike Pinkerton
Quote: "Since its humble beginnings in early 2002, the Gecko-based OS X web browser Camino (originally known as Chimera) has been one of the most-acclaimed browsers on the Mac platform. Mac.Ars had a chance to find out what's up in the world of Camino (and open source development on OS X) by chatting with Mike Pinkerton, the driving force behind Camino. In the interview he talks about the pace of development, his thoughts on Safari, and how Camino got its start in the first place:

"'We started developing a side project, then called "Chimera" for its hybrid mix of native Cocoa front-end and cross-platform/Carbon/Cocoa backend. The goal of this project was to make a fast, standards-compliant browser that just worked. It didn't have 50,000 features, you couldn't check your email from the certificate dialog. It was streamlined and simple; exactly what you needed and nothing more.'

"Mike also discusses the effect the release of Safari had on Camino, some of the challenges in doing open-source development on Mac OS X, and the future direction of Camino."

Ars Technica

Games
Doom 3 review - Elite Bastards
Elite Flashback - Doom - Elite Bastards

Portable Tech
Tiny and Low-Cost BH 220 Bluetooth Headset - I4U
Ultra Products 4-in-1 MP3 Player - XYZ Computing

Systems
Shuttle Zen ST62K Barebones - Guru Review
IWill's ZMAXdp - Dual Opterons in a Mini PC - HEXUS

Video Cards
PowerColor Radeon 9800 Platinum Edition - Bjorn3D
HIS 9550 128MB VIVO Edition Video Card - Tech-Mods
HIS Excalibur X600XT Limited Edition PCI Express Videocard - Tweaknews
Albatron Trinity GeForce 6800 GT - Guru3D
Power Color 9800 Platinum Edition Manipulated Radeon 9800 Pro - TweakTown
GALAXY Glacier GeForce 6800 128MB - HEXUS
Gigabyte GA-8TRS350MT Radeon 9100 IGP PRO - PCstats

Motherboard
Albatron PX915G Pro - OCModShop
ASrock K7Upgrade-880 Socket A with Socket 754 bridge card - OCW
ABIT AA8 DuraMAX Motherboard (Intel 925X) - Bjorn3D
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum - Viper Lair

Ram
OCZ EL DDR PC3200 Platinum Revision 2 - hardCOREware

Drives and Storage
Pioneer DVR-108 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive - 3DXtreme
LiteON SOHW-1633S - Overclockers Online
VisionTek Xtreme2 GO DRIVE - The Tech Zone
Maxtor's Atlas 10K V SCSI hard drive - The Tech Report
SanDisk Cruzer Mini and Water Filled Optical Mouse - Hi-techreviews
200GB Seagate External USB2.0 Drive - Mikhailtech
KingWin Giga Plus USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure - Virtual-Hideout

Cases and Coolers and PSUs
Logisys Phantom Case - hi-techreviews
Viper ATX Case - Aftermath Reviews
Gigabyte PCU22-VG 3D Rocket Cooler Pro - TecCentral (in German)
Spire CoolForce VGA Cooling Kit - The Overclock Intelligence Agency
PolarFLO TT Series 2 Port Waterblock - PimpRig
The Jetart Xcool NP4000 Portable Notebook Cooler - Adrian's Rojak Pot
Innovatek XX Flow - Nexus Hardware
OCZ PowerStream 470W Power Supply Unit - 3DXtreme


Keyboards and Mice
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX for Bluetooth - The Tech Zone
SteelPad S&S Mousing Surface - GruntvillE and Xtreme Tek

Networking
Ovislink Multimedia Server - WMU-9000VPN - Walibe
Asus WL-330g Pocket Wireless Access Point - The Tech Zone

Misc
Motorola MA560 Cordless Phone - Designtechnica
Artec T1 USB Terrestrial Digital TV Box - Guru Review
Vantec EZ-grip molex connector kit - Rbmods
Samsung ML-2551N Laser Printer - Tech-Mods
Harmony SST-659 Remote Control - Designtechnica

Downloads
Colin McRae Rally 2005 Multiplayer Demo - GamersHell and 3D Gamers
Richard Burns Rally v1.01 Patch - GamersHell and 3D Gamers
Unreal Tournament 2004 demo v3334 - 3D Gamers

Guides
Cleaning Copper Waterblocks guide - OCModShop
Beginners Guides: Crash Recovery - Dealing with the Blue Screen Of Death - PCStats
Sweatin' the Net - Futurelooks

Opinions and Editorials
So whats new? Absolutely nothing really - Hardware Analysis
Lets Burn the Glaf (FCC Flag) - Designtechnica
"Catalyst A.I. - The future of optimisations?" - Elite Bastards

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