Danny Allen - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Danny Allen

Article | 5/06/2008 Computex Taipei: Fear, loathing and the mini-laptop war

Fear: Being woken by an earthquake my first night in Taipei. Loathing: New ASUS Eee PCs face a battle royale for low-cost mini-notebook dominance, as ...

Article | 27/05/2008 Music and movement

Danny Allen takes a look at the GypsyMIDI MIDI controller, a suit that uses upper body movements to operate any MIDI-compatible hardware or software

Article | 11/04/2008 Save DOS! The Greatest OS Fondly Remembered

PC World's Danny Allen visits the Computer History Museum reminisces about the old days.

Article | 3/10/2007 A Brief History of Game Consoles, as Seen in Old TV Ads

From Atari's PONG to the Sony PlayStation 3 - we laugh, we cringe, we reminisce.

Article | 28/09/2007 Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One

This all-in-one's slightly high price is offset by competitive ink costs. Performance is fair, but photo quality can be very good.

Article | 22/08/2007 YouTube draws the most audience

Our number-one favorite place to waste time on the Web, YouTube is the only service in our group that could possibly lay claim both to uncovering scan...

Article | 22/08/2007 MySpaceTV beta good for addicts

Want to spread a viral video to a huge chunk of Web audience beyond that of (or in addition to) YouTube? Want to upload video to your MySpace profile,...

Article | 22/08/2007 Online video shoot-out

<a href="http://www.youtube.com">YouTube</a>, now owned by Google, may still be the 800-pound gorilla of video sharing sites, but an impressive number...

Article | 16/04/2007 Features justify pricey graphics board

The new games standard is DirectX 10, but the graphics boards supporting it have been very expensive. Now a new wave of lower-memory nVidia boards is ...

Article | 10/04/2007 Coming: Inkjets That Print 60 Pages Per Minute

A new inkjet technology called Memjet could allow printer manufacturers to launch $200 letter-size-document printers capable of outputting 60 pages pe...

Article | 2/03/2007 A Brief History of Game Consoles, as Seen in Old TV Ads

The first piece of tech gear that I could call my own wasn't a computer; it was a game console--an original Sega Master System. I remember it, and the...

Article | 16/02/2007 Nintendo Wii

Nintendo's new Wii game console is a big winner, starting with its innovative, crowd-pleasing controller.

Article | 12/01/2007 CES - Creative gets into music streaming

Audio-specialist Creative's biggest announcements at CES this year focused on streaming music around the home.

Article | 2/12/2006 Playstation 3

As the long wait for the much-anticipated PlayStation 3 game console dragged on, gamers started to joke that Sony stood for Soon, Only Not Yet.

Article | 22/11/2006 A closer look at the Nintendo Wii

Our reviewer catches his breath to report on his first few days with the Wii and its innovative, crowd-pleasing controller.