A Professional-Level Digital Camera: The Olympus E-10
Digital cameras continue to improve in quality, giving their more traditional brethren a run for the money. Olympus pulls out the big guns with its E-10, a full-featured four-megapixel digital camera. But is it worth two grand? Neoseeker was very careful not to drop the unit they checked out in their review.
Get a Broadband Connection, Or Tweak the One You Have
You say you haven’t purchased broadband yet, or you’re looking to change providers? No problem. Our feature will walk you through everything you need to consider before signing a contract. You say you’re already hooked up? Perfect. We’ll tell you how to get the best from your high-speed connection, and how to keep it from getting the best of you. Technical Editor Will Smith gives you the information you need in the Broadband Experts Handbook.
Finding a Use for That Old Box: Make it a FreeBSD Firewall
If you’ve got an always-on connection (cable, DSL, or if you’re really lucky, T1), network security is an issue. But hardware firewalls are expensive, or a pain to set up–and let’s face it, it’s always more fun to do it yourself. Beta Bites shows you how to turn that aging 486 into a FreeBSD-powered firewall and router in their article.
Building a Better Transportation System
The sim-game craze has spawned some pretty strange offshoots, with games like Pizza Tycoon and Microsoft’s upcoming Zoo Tycoon being two of the oddest. Traffic Giant puts you in charge of a city’s municipal transportation system, and you’ll have to design efficient and profitable transit routes. Sounds bizarre, but could it be fun? 3D GameForce finds out in their review.
When the Bottleneck’s the CPU, You’ll Want the Best One for the Job
So you shelled out the long green for a shiny new GeForce 3 card, but you want to know which CPU would work best with it. The Tech Zone was wondering that as well, so they put together a couple of 1000Mhz systems to see which works best with GeForce 3–Intel or AMD. Check out the results in their head-to-head test.
There’s a New Two-Monitor Card in Town
Matrox was the first vendor to bring dual-monitor support (appearing in Windows98) to the mainstream with its G400 chipset. Now nVidia is entering the fray, with its Twinview-capable Geforce2MX video card. The Tech Zone stacks both cards up in this head-to-head review.
It Was All Fun and Games Until it Became a Business
AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI, and RealNetworks today announced their new venture, which creates a platform for online music subscription services. It’s called MusicNet, and it will combine downloadable and streaming music with Real’s technology to bring music subscription services to customers.
(Another) Security Hole in Internet Explorer Discovered
Users of certain versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could have their system seriously compromised, according to the information in this security bulletin. If you use IE 5.01 or IE 5.5, Microsoft recommends you install this patch immediately.
