Microsoft Office XP
visitors this year: 12 In a climate where a piracy is no more, prices for software must fall but not so for Microsoft Office XP. Here we look at what this edition of Office...
Category: consumer technology of the 1990s
science software for the home and school (1995)
visitors this year: 16 What’s the good software for learning and why it’s worth having – by Roger Frost, TES 1995. There was a time when the best thing to do with software catalogues...
speech recognition software – Voice Xpress version 5
visitors this year: 22 From Lernout and Hauspie Don’t underestimate how much the technology has progressed – if an early brush with speech recognition software might have raised an eyebrow, a few years on...
dictating to Dragon Naturally Speaking 5
visitors this year: 13 Here is a tool that lets you dictate into your word processor. This version of Dragon boasts improved accuracy and lots of extra commands that let you handle email and...
click with mother – software 1996
visitors this year: 11 by Roger Frost TES 1996 CD-Rom will be a one billion dollar market by the end of 1997 say leading software publishers Broderbund. With predictions this grand, and with a...
speech – the final front ear (or technology for the determined)
visitors this year: 9 Roger Frost tests speech recognition software (199x) Speech – the final frontier! The efforts to make a computer do as we speak, to type things out for us at least, are...
a computer video camera or webcam (1998)
visitors this year: 12 Frankly, a video camera was the last thing I thought I would get for Christmas. But no one here is complaining – it is half the size of a matchbox,...
software gets a mite cleverer (1998)
visitors this year: 12 Software can put a bit more sense into the computer (Roger Frost TES 1998)Microsoft’s ‘My Personal Tutor’ is a pair of titles with the claim to be the first educational...
Logitech Quickcam Pro – USB web camera (2000)
visitors this year: 35 By Roger Frost (for TES Online Magazine 2000) Here is an inexpensive video camera than any school could do very clever tricks with. In fact anyone who wonders how to...
fun and more – games short list for Xmas (1999)
visitors this year: 10 by Roger Frost, TES Lego Racers (age 8+ £39.99) is a racing game plus. You can expect all the thrills of a very good racing theme: great model cars, Lego...
a mouse that gives feedback (2000)
visitors this year: 32 Buy a computer and you can expect full colour graphics, stereo surround sound and so much disc space it would be churlish to complain. But imagine telling the computer salesperson...
games with more – high on adrenaline low on testosterone (1999)
visitors this year: 12 (Roger Frost TES Xmas 1999) Game of chess anyone? Some games have kudos that computer games have a hard time to match. Telling people you play space invaders all night...
Microsoft SideWinder Precision Racing Wheel (199x)
visitors this year: 31 Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel Logitech Force Feedback Mouse Microsoft’s Intellimouse Explorer (USB/Serial) Come home time, those who love to push the pedal to the metal and devour the playground...
software for the early years (1996)
visitors this year: 25 (Roger Frost TES 1996)Anything that claims to develop essential maths and language skills is a magnet to parents and teachers. A software trade show, though with murderous games, showed a...
cordless optical mouse (2002)
visitors this year: 37 Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical for PC or Mac; PS/2 or USB (Reviewed by Roger Frost for Times Educational Supplement January 2002) Combining two very useful mouse innovations, this hybrid Logitech...
a lot of children’s software
visitors this year: 21 Test your child software (age 6-11)Do you really know how well your child is doing at school? Well it says that on the box and it would be crazy to...
software presents Xmas 1996
visitors this year: 12 The best news this Xmas is that the computer has present shopping sorted. There is now a CD-Rom to suit every interest from astronomy to genealogy and from gardening to...
software presents Xmas 1997
visitors this year: 17 The magic of computers is in how software turns a machine into anything. One moment it’s a typewriter and the next it’s a calculator – turning it into a Christmas...
software presents Xmas 1998
visitors this year: 20 If you want to see new software you have to go visit a trade show. Next January’s BETT show is for teachers, while autumn’s ECTS is for the massive Xmas...
the joy of specs: buying a computer (1994)
visitors this year: 18 Buying a computer (1994, TES) ‘Who me? Tell you about this computer?’ said the shop assistant. ‘If I could, I wouldn’t be working here would I?’ It was an unwise...
choosing a Pocket computer (2002)
visitors this year: 33 by Roger Frost (TES January 2000). Today you can buy a pocket computer with a specification to match a desktop PC of just a few years ago. While doesn’t plays...
buying a computer for Xmas (1994)
visitors this year: 37 What to look for when buying a machine (December 1994, TES) by Roger Frost “Oh, darling… it’s a… com-pu-ter! For me? For Xmas? You shouldn’t have… how won-derful”. Yes, very...
computer cases: Targus Universal Rolling Case
visitors this year: 25 Targus Universal Rolling Case and Targus Sherpa casePrices £100 – £150 Lifetime guarantee Two styles of upright case on wheels, and one easy way of carrying a laptop, projector and...
a tiny camcorder Sony Camcorder – DCR-IP7
visitors this year: 451 Price £1200-£1500 A pocket size camcorder using the tiny Micromv cartridge that makes taking your camcorder with you everywhere a real possibility. Digital camcorder allows easy file transfer to the...
a very portable computer for the Internet – HP Jornada 820
visitors this year: 38 by Roger Frost for TES (June 99)I remember a school science lesson where they asked us to think about life without electricity. It would surprise me none if kids still...
gadget presents for Xmas (2000)
visitors this year: 50 By Roger Frost for Times Educational Supplement 2000 Having a splurge for Xmas is now so easy. Think of something you already have – video, sounds, diary, camera – make...
gadgets for Xmas presents (2001)
visitors this year: 36 “Strictly PC (or Mac) by Roger Frost – TES newspaper In the past grandma was delighted to receive a saucepan for Xmas but no more. Today she has her own computer,...
techy tips for running a reliable PC (2001)
visitors this year: 22 You can hope to be lucky with machines. You can leave a machine running day and night so that it’s always ready for use. But mostly we’re not so lucky:...
where is my nearest Internet shop? (2000)
visitors this year: 15 Roger Frost’s column in ‘TV Technology and Production’ from when the Internet just started to get easy Where is my nearest Internet shop? (March 2000) While it is in the routine...
feel the web – haptics (2000)
visitors this year: 16 Roger Frost’s column in ‘TV Technology and Production’ from when the Internet just started to get easy Feel the web (May/June 2000) As the first Giga Hz computer reaches the shops,...
theme parks
visitors this year: 87 Theme parks – Roger Frost checked up on the tea cup rides at numerous theme parks (TES) Legoland – Windsor, Near London Alton Towers – Staffordshire, Midlands Thorpe Park –...
better toys
visitors this year: 41 Here we hesitate to call everything bought in a toy shop a toy. For a few years I took on the task of finding better playthings, things that move children...
