Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 26, 2009, 1:15 am
The GrooveNeo iPod Alarm Clock Radio is more than just an alarm clock. It’s also an iPod dock with an integrated AM/FM radio. Features 2.75” stereo speakers so it should produce pretty loud and cl...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 24, 2009, 1:47 am
Ever since the induction of Bing by Microsoft, they have been clear of their intentions to overthrow Google as the kingpin of search engines. But now the rivalry is stepping up another gear due to one...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 23, 2009, 6:03 pm
The question of how might Twitter actually make some money has been around for about as long as Twitter has been popular (you may we covered this back in March) but finally we have official confirmati...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 23, 2009, 1:42 pm
Hold back the vomit; it’s time for Real Player SP! If you’re like me, something happened in your teenage years, when you lost your mind through a combination of hormones and white cider, and deci...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 23, 2009, 12:23 pm
Are you the sort of person that can never find your way back? No matter where you parked the car, agreed to meet someone or even where you live(?) then the ECCO GPS Keyring is for you. Just set it as ...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 23, 2009, 11:05 am
Here at Zath we’ve had the opportunity to attend several LG Mobile events over the past year or two including ones for the launch of the LG Renoir (KC910), the LG Arena (KM900) and the LG Chocol...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 23, 2009, 8:12 am
What’s this? A Secret Santa idea which takes the whole concept to a totally different level thanks to Firebox, we’re talking about a Global Secret Santa event here! With the Christmas sea...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 22, 2009, 2:40 pm
Rovio can be the eyes and ears of your house whilst you’re out, whether you don’t trust your housemates, your cleaner or perhaps a babysitter. A Wi-Fi driven remote home security robot loaded ...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 22, 2009, 2:14 pm
Chances are that you are reading this on a Window’s machine, or that failing that either on a Mac or some species of Linux – it’s pretty much a three horse race, and a biased one at that. So obv...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 22, 2009, 5:08 am
Wordpress is one of the biggest blogging platforms on the planet with over 7.5 million bloggers using their hosted service. Recently, they rolled out geo-tagging, which allows you to label your blog a...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 22, 2009, 4:24 am
For those over-protective parents out there, the final Windows Live Essentials application I’m taking a look at is Family Safety. Personally, it looks like more hassle than it’s worth, especially ...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 20, 2009, 1:35 am
If you run a blog of your own, you may will be interested to know that Windows Live Essentials ships with a very capable blog editor called Windows Live Writer. When you start Writer for the first tim...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 20, 2009, 1:05 am
Here are some of the best gadgets you can get for your fella this Christmas. The ultimate list of blokes’ gifts. Should be fantastic… Beer Bottle Goblets Upside down bottles of Grolsch. Bri...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 19, 2009, 2:10 pm
Remember how excited I got about the beta 1 of Mozilla Firefox 3.6 the other week? Well I’ve just got the latest beta of 3.6, beta 3, and it’s missing a key feature I found in the previous beta! I...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 19, 2009, 1:35 am
I’ve always liked Windows Movie Maker – a simple video editing application that was bundled with Windows XP, and at the time, very impressive. In the 5 year gap between the release of XP and V...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 19, 2009, 1:15 am
Here is the list of the perfect gifts for your wife or girlfriend this Christmas. They may not be the most luxurious gifts you could buy, but they should make her smile none the less. This will be the...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 18, 2009, 4:45 pm
One of the problems with Wi-Fi is that it doesn’t have that great a range – yes its easily enough for your house, and maybe for your cheapskate neighbour as well but there is only really two ways ...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 18, 2009, 3:42 pm
What happens when you take a standard desktop computer, shrink into a neat, smooth, compact form just smaller than a shoebox and make it shiny and white? Well the Apple Mac Mini of course, but what if...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 18, 2009, 1:40 am
Windows Live Photo Gallery is Microsoft’s photo editing application that comes as part of the Windows Live Essentials download and I must admit that I really like it. It features everything that the...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 18, 2009, 1:03 am
Here’s a list of some of the greatest gifts you can get for young children or siblings this Christmas. Endless fun and excitement right through to Boxing Day no doubt. There really are some quite am...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 17, 2009, 5:23 am
Now it’s mum’s turn. Find the perfect fun gifts for your mother this Christmas. She does all the wrapping and the majority of the shopping for almost everyone in the family, so don’t forget it w...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 17, 2009, 4:44 am
Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 – arguably the biggest game to be released this year was finally unveiled to the public and ignoring the complaints regarding the multiplayer set-up it has received ...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 17, 2009, 2:23 am
I have to be honest, since the parting of the ways between Eidos and Sports Interactive and the formation of the Football Manager series; I’ve not been a great fan of the Championship Manager se...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 17, 2009, 1:30 am
When you download Windows Live Essentials, you won’t find a calendar application or even an address book application. What you will find, however, is Windows Live Mail, which covers not only your e-...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 16, 2009, 11:01 am
A few weeks ago you may have read my article on ‘OnLive’ moving gaming into ‘the cloud’. The global gaming network played via the internet eliminating the need for exceptional hardware...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 16, 2009, 10:21 am
Over the next few days I will list a number of the best Christmas gadgets you can give to your family. First up is dad. Whether you’re a wife, son or daughter these are great gifts for the father of...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 16, 2009, 7:35 am
When I first installed Windows 7, it somehow felt incomplete without MSN Messenger waiting for me in the start menu. In fact, the first thing I did was download it as part of the Windows Live Essentia...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 15, 2009, 4:52 pm
What are Windows Live Essentials you might be asking? Well with the recent launch of Windows 7, we can see that Microsoft have really done many things right with the latest version of their operating ...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 15, 2009, 11:14 am
With another football season underway, a new version of Football Manager is the highlight of the month for me – I racked up a lot of game time with FM 2009, and grabbed a copy of Football Manage...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 14, 2009, 7:30 am
And about bloody time!!! I’ve never know a game that has been put back so many times as has the Final Fantasy 13 release date being delayed, well perhaps Duke Nukem takes that crown, but anyway a r...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 10, 2009, 6:05 pm
Ok, so Windows 7 is all the rage right now. In case you hadn’t heard, since its release a few weeks ago, the market share of Windows 7 has already surpassed that of Snow Leopard and Linux put togeth...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 10, 2009, 3:20 pm
Have you ever wanted to play around with the Unreal Engine 3? Yes the Unreal Engine 3 that is used to create some of the best video games currently out there (some of which were on display at the rece...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 10, 2009, 2:37 pm
Swoopo is on the face of it, a great place for a bargain, they advertise sales such as Nintendo Wii’s for only £20-50. Sound’s great. However, as always, there’s a catch, but perhaps not one th...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 9, 2009, 3:20 pm
As I’m sure you are aware that some of us at Zath have recently visited the Euogamer Expo’s at both Leeds and London, and this is the second of a few posts having a look at some of the games I got...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 9, 2009, 2:47 pm
You’ve got your iPod, you’ve got your laptop, and now you can proudly walk around showing them off just like everybody else. But we humans seem to have an inherent need to be different, so somehow...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 8, 2009, 7:12 am
So as you know, we here on Zath have recently attended the Eurogamer Expo’s in Leeds and London and we’ve played a few games that were there on show and I thought I’d share with you a few of the...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 7, 2009, 5:50 pm
Remember Windows 7’s Aero Peek feature I was telling you about a few weeks ago? I loved it when I first used it, and I still love it now. The only problem, as with all new features in Operating Syst...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 7, 2009, 5:37 pm
Google Wave works well as standalone system for chat, file sharing and so on. However, it also gives you the option to add extensions which enhance your experience and the range of functions it can pe...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 6, 2009, 5:05 pm
It wasn’t until the first images and the first teaser trailer of Avatar that I realised the potential of this film. James Cameron has spent 14 years of his life working on this one film. 10 years de...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 5, 2009, 4:38 pm
Ninite is a free web service which brings all your favourite free windows applications (including most of our Top 5 Open Source Apps) into one single installer. Which could be very useful for anyone w...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 4, 2009, 3:32 pm
As I’m sure you are aware that some of us at Zath have recently visited the Euogamer Expo’s at both Leeds and London, and this is the first of a few posts having a look at some of the game...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 4, 2009, 3:29 pm
Perhaps the best, quickest and easiest way of buying personalised greetings cards! Moonpig.com allows you to choose from thousands of card designs and alter them to add the personal touch. You can upl...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 3, 2009, 2:20 pm
Electronics retailer Best Buy is coming to the UK in 2010. They will be opening physical stores and also bestbuy.co.uk will be delivering the online service that has provided so popular across the pon...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 2, 2009, 12:49 pm
Upon downloading the Vuze bittorrent client for our 5 Top Open Source Applications feature, I was offered to download and install a free application called TuneUp. Normally, I despise this sort of sl...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 2, 2009, 11:17 am
I love music and have a huge iTunes library to prove it, but having to go into iTunes every time I want to view what’s playing, select a new track or rate a track I’m listening to gets annoying! E...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 2, 2009, 9:37 am
Here at Zath we like to do things properly, so when we thought we’d check out the Eurogamer Expo 2009 not only did a couple of us visit the Leeds gaming show but I headed off down to London to g...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 1, 2009, 5:20 pm
Everyone seems to have digital video cameras these days, whether it’s carrying a dedicated device such as the Flip Ultra HD Mini Video Camera or even simply using their mobile phone to record vi...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Nov 1, 2009, 2:18 pm
... ’s make your first wave a little more entertaining by adding a video. How To Add Video To A Wave Adding a YouTube video couldn’ ... will appear, click this and it will give you the ...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Oct 31, 2009, 4:00 pm
When I checked Software Update to see if there was any new software available for my Mac, I wasn’t too surprised to see an iTunes update, v9.0.2, following the update of the Apple TV. When I was sca...
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Simon B. posted an article on Zath! - Oct 31, 2009, 11:16 am
... a bit time consuming and ultimately, not that great for professional looking greetings cards. However, I then came across the Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe software, which is a greeting card desig...
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