It’s time to blow things up, rescuse some prisoners, and then do it all over again. For the in-depth details on this Hellfire: Apache vs. Hind, read this article.

This is a game with stunning graphics. The tropical setting is a nice change from the typical dank dungeon and industrial settings of most shooters. Carrying twice as many missions as most FPS games, Far Cry will give you many hours of enjoyment. Normally, we don’t cover strictly desktop applications in Computing Unplugged, but News and Contributing Editor James Booth just begged and begged, so we had to let him run with this review. You’ll be glad we did.

Product reviews often talk about new products but don’t let you know how these gleaming goodies stand up to the test of time. Our Six Months Later series does. In this series, we look at products after they’ve been used in real-world situations for at least six months. This month, we look at the palmOne Tungsten T3 to see if how well it withstood the test of time.

Back in the April issue, Senior Technical Editor James Booth reviewed v1.5 of Crazy Olympics from Crazysoft. Since that time, the program has been renamed Crazy Athletics, and v2.0 has been released to coincide with the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. We take a look to see if it wins the gold.

If you need to keep track of a lot of passwords, you might want to try visKeeper, a different sort of password manager. To access your password database with visKeeper, you need to know remember where to touch certain spots on an image. Is this a workable idea? Read Cynthia Green’s helpful review to find out.

Describing everything that Nero can do is like asking the proverbial group of blind men to describe an elephant. There’s a lot there, and no matter who you ask, you’re likely to get a different perspective of the product. That said, if you want to erase, play, save, or rip data off a CD/DVD, chances are good that Nero can do it.

Although Tapwave likes to think of the Zodiac as a mobile entertainment system, we think that’s selling it short. It’s so much more. Not only is the Zodiac a portable game machine, a portable video and MP3 player, it’s also a powerful Palm-based handheld computer. With the appropriate exposure and marketing, the Zodiac could really make a name for itself.

Although there are numerous benefits to the mobile ad-hoc network, due to their nature, they’re vulnerable and not deployable on a large scale because of the limits of technology. This article highlights some of the technical aspects of mobile ad-hoc networks with a brief discussion of the mechanisms currently in use, and how they overcome the challenges posed by this technology.

Earlier, in a previous article, Ph.D. student Humayun Bakht talked about routing protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks. In this article, he discusses the importance of secure routing in mobile ad-hoc networks.

In this article, networking researcher Humayun Bakht highlights some of the characteristics of a mobile ad-hoc network. This article will be helpful for both technical and non technical readers in gaining a wider understanding of mobile ad-hoc networks and their characteristics.