With a suggested retail price of £79 in the UK and $99.99 in the US, the Kodak ESP 3.2 finds itself joining the entry-level multi-function printer fight.
Taking on the likes of the ridiculously cheap HP Photosmart 5510 and the Canon Pixma MG3120, the Kodak ESP 3.2 offers a competitive set of features at an affordable initial cost.
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Priced at £69 in the UK (about $110), there's little to separate the Kodak ESP 1.2 all-in-one printer from its stablemate, the ESP 3.2, which costs £79 in the UK and $99.99 in the US.
Both offer wireless printing, plus scanning and copying. Setting them up with Wi-Fi is fast with the new ESPs, and both come Google Cloud Print-ready.
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Faster, cooler and for only another £13 on top of the price of the vanilla AMD Radeon HD 7870 - why wouldn't you go for the new Sapphire HD 7870 OC Edition? The mid-range Southern Islands/7-series/Graphics Core Next (GCN) cards from AMD have impressed us. They may not have the raw graphics grunt of the Tahiti GPUs in the excellent HD 7950 or the crazy-expensive HD 7970, but they're hitting some decent price/performance numbers. The HD 7870 and HD 7850 are like-for-like replacements for the HD 6950 and HD 6970, at similar prices and with extra pace to boot. They also benefit from the new 28nm production process, which provides extras like the Zero Core Power tech that enables seriously low-power states when the monitor goes to sleep. It also makes them serious overclockers, and that's why we've been waiting with bated breath for board partners to bring out special factory-overclocked cards just like this Sapphire HD 7870 OC Edition. Tough sell The HD 7850 is our favourite of the new mid-range graphics cards, for the simple reason that it outperforms the HD 6950 it's replacing, and comes in cheaper too.The HD 7870 is a tougher sell as it's only slightly faster than the HD 6970, and is a little more expensive. That's not a great combination, but as we've said, you get the goodness of the 28nm GCN architecture, and there's that overclocking headroom too. Sadly though, Sapphire has been rather conservative with the overclocking of this card. The vanilla card is also known as the GHz Edition, sporting, as it does, a full 1GHz clock speed. This OC Edition only comes with a paltry 50MHz boost over the stock speeds. That's disappointing when we had the stock AMD reference edition with the standard cooler running happily with a 1.2GHz clock speed. As you might expect then, the extra 50MHz on the factory-overclocked card doesn't amount to a lot in terms of performance. So why opt for one of these factory-overclocked cards over the vanilla version when you're only getting an extra 50MHz? Well, theoretically you ought to be able to push the GPU clock further on this Sapphire OC Edition thanks to the third-party cooling array it has screwed onto the PCB. That's the theory, but in practice it doesn't quite work out like that. BenchmarksDirectX 11 tessellation performance
Heaven 2.5: Frames per second: Higher is betterSapphire HD 7870 OC: 21.2
AMD HD 7870: 20.3
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The LG Optimus L3 is a budget Android handset that takes its design cues from the brand's higher-end models, but has it got a performance to match?
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The Audeo Phonak PFE122 in-ear headphones delivery great comfort, a solid sound experience and are have a decent price tag.
We’d never heard of Phonak until we received these earphones for review. That’s probably a good thing, seeing as how their specialty for over 60 years has been hearing-aid systems. However, a couple of years ago, Phonak decided to leverage its experience with human hearing and in-ear acoustics to design a unique line of earphones dubbed Audeo. Lucky for us, that experience has resulted in one of the most balanced-sounding, comfortable, and secure-fitting headphones we’ve tried yet. Read on to find out why we think the Audeo PFE-122s are among the most well-rounded in-ear monitors for under $200.
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When you think of the name Incase you'll invariably think about aftermarket Macintosh products. From super slick iPhone and iPad cases to protective products for your various Macbooks, SF-based Incase does one thing very well: they make great looking products that are both stylish and functional.
When we first heard that the company was jumping into the audio market with a complete line of headphones and earphones we had no doubt that they'd be great looking and "hip." The question that remained was whether or not form would trump function.
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D-Link's mydlink app (free) is companion software for D-Link devices enabled with the mydlink cloud service, such as the D-Link DIR-605L Cloud Router. The cloud service allows for remote management of mydlink-enabled routers and IP cameras, along with the app, from an iOS or Android device—I tested on Android. Remote network management via smartphone is a great idea and is the direction home and small business networking is headed. Cisco Linksys is poised to introduce its line of mobile apps for home networks this summer.Unfortunately, being the first major consumer networking vendor to market with an app for managing routers and home networks means that D-Links sets the barometer for how this type of app should work. While there are some cool things you can do with the mydlink app (like kick users off your router from anywhere) it's apparent there's still some work required to develop the mydlink app into finely-honed software.
Exoplanets—worlds orbiting other stars—are one of the hottest topics in astronomy, as researchers close in on detecting potentially habitable Earth-like planets, while also finding exotic worlds such as “Tatooine”, which orbits a double star. iPad app Journey to the Exoplanets ($9.99) is a multifaceted, immersive introduction to the subject, complete with beautiful artists’ renditions of our best guess as to what some of these worlds might look like up close.
Journey to the Exoplanets, a collaboration between Scientific American and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is classified in the iTunes App Store as a book. As an interactive, multimedia eBook, it’s highly impressive, rich in information and with beautiful supportive graphics (and in some cases, audio or video clips). It does well in covering even basic material in a lively, engaging way, and should be enjoyable to a wide-ranging audience, from young students to astronomy buffs, teachers, and scientists. It’s in easy pick as an Editors’ Choice as an educational app.
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Recently, some lucky Google users received an invitation to Google Drive (free to $4.99 per month). If you haven't yet been invited to Drive, relax because you actually have most of the product and service already. It's called Google Docs, and it's fantastic.
Confused? The newly launched Google Drive is merely a rebranding of Google Docs with a few added features, chief among them local file syncing. In other words, Google Docs—ahem, Drive—now works more like Dropbox , SugarSync, CX, or any other file-syncing service you care to name, while still retaining the core Docs functionality, too. You can upload files to your Google account, convert them to Google's file format to edit them online or create new docs in the Web interface, collaborate with others in real time, and export the finished products to more standard file formats, like .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .csv, and so on.
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You could think of the HP Laserjet Pro 300 Color MFP M375nw ($599 direct) as the junior cousin of the HP LaserJet Pro 400 Color MFP M475dn ($699 direct), with a lower rated print speed and lacking an automatic duplexer, but sharing most other features and specs. It does have one extra that its bigger cousin lacks: WiFi connectivity. In our testing, it was even slower than the already pokey M475dn, but its overall output quality was as good, thanks to top-tier graphics.
The M375nw prints, copies, faxes, and scans; it can fax either from its 3.5-inch color touch screen or from a computer (PC Fax). You can scan to a USB thumb drive, email, or a network folder. It has a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) for faxing, scanning, or copying multi-page documents without you having to feed each page by hand. It can scan at up to legal size using the ADF.
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GlobalSCAPE Managed Information Xchange (starting at $299 per month) solves a very basic problem that still plagues many organizations today: how to securely transfer large files and sensitive data from one computer to another over the network without relying on consumer-focused storage services such as Dropbox. The hosted managed file transfer service makes it possible for businesses to remain compliant and track what files are being transferred through an easy-to-use and manage cloud platform.
It shouldn't be so tricky to transfer large amounts of data nowadays, but it is. For many businesses, emailing files isn't feasible, especially if the mail administrator blocks attachments, impose file size limits, or allocate smaller-than-desired mailbox quotas. (And considering how many malicious attachments masquerade as work-related files, reducing the number of attachments in your inbox is a good thing!) While cloud-based storage is an option, I don't think anyone advocates uploading patient data or customer lists to a personal Dropbox account. Burning DVDs and shipping them overnight is also possible, but not cost-effective or in any way efficient.
Read more...As a small-office color multifunction printer (MFP), the Brother MFC-9325CW ($450 street) adds a couple of extras over the Brother MFC-9125CN ($400 street, 3.5 stars): WiFi connectivity and a port for a USB thumb drive. In our testing, it showed good speed for a color laser-class MFP in its price range. However, it stumbled on quality for both graphics and photos, which are the main reasons one would buy a color printer.
The MFC-9325CW can print, copy, scan, and fax. It lets you fax either from your computer (PC Fax), or standalone faxing without needing a computer. A front-facing port you can print JPEG and PDF files from (and scan files to) a USB thumb drive.
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Windows Phone isn't exactly ubiquitous at the moment, and it isn't really setting smartphone owners on fire.
Nokia's current financial woes show this, even though it's now joined at the hip to Microsoft and its flagship Lumia 900 is in the wild.
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The Range Rover Evoque is bold, beautiful and kitted out to its core - arguably one of the best cars we've ever tested. Find out why...
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