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Need for Speed: Nitro

Need for Speed: Nitro gets off to a fast start, but lacks enough variety to make it into the winner's circle.

If you have any interest whatsoever in off-road racing you'd do well to take this beautiful and thrilling game for a spin.

Cars Race-O-Rama

Cars Race-O-Rama is a terribly generic racer aimed at the younger crowd. It's neither great nor awful, just absolutely middle-of-the-road gaming.
Asus SDRW-08D1S-U External DVD-RW Drive

External DVD writers are never going to be exciting, but at least Asus' effort looks pretty.
Pure

Pure doesn't blaze many new trails, but this off-road racer still delivers an intense, tricked-out thrill ride.
Corsair Flash Voyager 64GB

With more than enough space, some will be using Corsair's 64GB as a replacement for an external hard drive. Transferring this much data though will leave you wishing for more speed.
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli

Exciting for Ferrari fans, but take away the licence and you're left with a competent racer with only average looks, poor AI opponents, and not enough variety.
Asphalt 3: Street Rules

Fans of classic racing games will want to check out Asphalt 3 on N-Gage. The racing is fast paced and can be thrilling, but the repetitive level design robs it of replay value.
Haze

This madly inconsistent shooter offsets a number of thrilling moments with terrible artificial intelligence and an awful story.
Mario Kart Wii

Mario Kart Wii offers varied multiplayer and thoroughly integrated online modes that will keep you coming back for more.

Desktop shopping checklist

Home PCs still have their place in the sun, thanks to falling prices and ease of upgradeability.
How to upgrade your PlayStation 3 Hard Drive

Find out how to upgrade the hard drive on your PlayStation 3.
MP3 players with great battery life

Check out these MP3 players to find out which one puts the Energizer Bunny to shame.
Best burning combos: speedy CD/DVD drives and great software packages

Getting a great CD/DVD burner is only half the battle when it comes to having a winning disc-creation package.

Iomega announces Home Media Network Drive

This year's CES saw the release of Iomega's Home Media Network Drive, a new addition to its line of external storage devices with a few simple changes.
Samsung unveils 'world's smallest' 256GB SSD drive

Samsung Electronics has unveiled a 256GB SSD solid state drive that is less than 10mm thick.
One in four SSD-based laptops fail

Notebooks with solid state drives (flash-based) cost more than traditional hard drives, are "an order of magnitude" less reliable and do not perform as well when using Microsoft Outlook.
Sony introduces US$200 Blu-ray player

Sony has dropped a Blu-ray player for US$200, as the format approaches the affordable point.

Wipe your hard drive clean

Get out your virtual scrub brush and let's get busy.
Notebook shopping checklist

Processors, memory, hard drives, screens, graphics cards, optical drives, connectivity. What should you be looking out for?
DIY: Grab music from another computer with your iPod

Remember: Your iPod is a hard drive as well as an MP3 player. If you need to, say, move your music from one computer to another, simply use your iPod. Here's how.
Planning makes perfect -- know your PC components

Your new PC will only be as good as the sum of its parts. Here's a quick guide to the main PC components you'll find available in 2006, so you can match your performance requirements and budget realities.

R-Studio Data Recovery

Recover files on your local computer and on computers across your network.
Mail-Cure for Outlook Express

Recover e-mails from damaged DBX files or hard drive.
Complete Data Wipe

Erase entire hard disk drive partition, folders, or subfolders.
USB Disk Security

Protect your computer against viruses trying to attack via USB memory disk.

Get (laptop) smart before you buy

Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.

Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
Whereis® maps

If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.