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Tributaries HXC5: 1080p video over Ethernet

Crave So you've got all that wonderful home cinema gear installed in your house, everything is looking rosy, but then you make a horrifying discovery. You installed the screen too far away from the HD DVD player and moving it would mess up your whole setup.

Tags: loss, cable, house, send

20 November 2007, 10:36

RealDVD: DVD ripping goes legal

Crave Once the RealDVD software is installed, you just pop a DVD into your PC, and the program will copy the entire disc to your hard disk. Secondly, it's transportable: you can rip the discs to an external USB hard drive and watch them on up to four...

Tags: dvds, beta, cover, disc

9 September 2008, 11:30

BlackBerry and Apple: When fruits communicate

Crave We've got our hands on Pocket Mac's latest Mac OS X software -- which installed without a hitch on Tiger -- and had a snoop around the features available to Mac users. Judging from the BlackBerry preferences panel that the software installed, all...

Tags: apple uk, os, hands, mac os

30 June 2005, 11:51

Binatone Carrera X350: Zebra-print sat-nav for £80

Crave UK and Ireland maps are installed as standard, but if you opt for the Europe-wide coverage then you'll be looking at an extra £40, taking the cost up to £120. With the UK maps you get thousands of points-of-interest pre-installed on the device, so...

Tags: maps, installed, pen, nav

18 April 2008, 12:09

Crave's guide to World Cup gadgets: Part Two

Crave The £180 Slingbox plugs into your TV receiver and uses your broadband connection to pipe the signal over the Web, where it can be viewed with any portable device that has the Slingplayer software installed.

Tags: gadgets, alerts, gps, broadband

14 June 2006, 13:10

O2 Wallet: Oyster card, Barclaycard and phone in one

Crave Triallists will be able to pay for goods worth under £10 using their phones at selected stores where readers are installed. But Barclaycard and Visa assured us this is something they take very seriously, and adequate security measures would be...

28 November 2007, 14:35

Mio C710 and C210: Mamma Mio!

Crave The C710 features a pocket-friendly form factor, maps of 24 European countries pre-installed, touch-screen functionality, seven-digit postcode recognition, a dedicated pedestrian mode, an anti-glare screen, speed camera location alerts and a...

Tags: mio, wi fi, pre, european

22 June 2006, 13:29

Seven days of Vista -- day 7: Which Vista version?

Crave Vista installed fairly quickly (within 30 minutes) on our test machines. Each OEM version of Vista is tied to the motherboard it's first installed on. Buy a copy or get a new PC," we snapped. But there are, like, dozens of versions.

Tags: microsoft, upgrade, windows vista, premium

31 January 2007, 12:12

Photos: A tour of the HP Blackbird 002

Crave In this case, HP has installed a pair of 1GB DDR4 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics cards in a dual-card Crossfire configuration. Bizarrely, these cards are installed atop an Asus Striker Extreme motherboard with an Nvidia Nforce 680i chipset.

7 September 2007, 10:23

Put to the test: Holly water-cooled PC

Crave We installed Half Life 2 on our liquid-cooled gaming monster this morning - an experience which was the closest we're likely to get to a Vietnam tour of duty. The Holly's fans whirred like chopper blades (almost inaudible chopper blades) and Half...

Tags: life, gaming, morning, holly

19 April 2005, 14:59

Look, no wires! The Mini goes portable

Crave Silas Bennett has installed an internal battery in his Mini which makes it run without being plugged into a wall socket. It's difficult to see the point of what some people get up to with their Mac Mini, but there's no shortage of crazies messing...

Tags: apple uk, car, mini, wall

19 May 2005, 13:12

Motorola Rokr E2: It's out... kind of

Crave The much-hyped phone, which was launched last year, didn't live up to its promise of making mobile phones more music-friendly -- particularly as the pre-installed iTunes software only held 100 songs. Crave is still recovering from the...

Tags: motorola, itunes, port, breath

30 August 2006, 12:52

Asus W3: where's the catch?

Crave We've installed Thief and Hitman on it and they both fly like hawks. It may be small, it may be sweet, but baby it can sure move its polygons around the screen at high speed. Slackers looking for a gaming laptop they can pass off as a work machine...

Tags: asus, lcd, section, keyboard

13 May 2005, 11:36

Netgear's Skype WiFi Phone: Make free calls without a PC

Crave The Skype client software comes pre-installed on the handset, and you can flick through your contacts (up to 200) on the colour display. Netgear has just announced what it says is the world's first Wi-Fi phone for Skype.

Tags: netgear, fi, wi fi, handset

13 September 2006, 11:01

Asus AiGuru S1: Make free calls and listen to streaming music

Crave The handset has Skype pre-installed, but unlike some of the other phones it can't connect to your existing 802.11b/g Wi-Fi infrastructure. A couple of months ago you couldn't find a decent Skype phone for love nor money, and now four turn up at once.

Tags: asus, wi fi, fi, handset

21 September 2006, 11:52