Reviews

Easynews – the new & easy approach to usenet

April 20, 2011

Easynews offers a simple and straightforward solution for accessing literally petabytes of audio, video, image and text files posted to over 100,000 topic-specific groups (more specifically called “newsgroups”). Plans range from $9.98/month for 20 gigs of downloads to $29.94 for 150 gigs of downloads. They are also offering a 14 day/10 gig free trial (you [...]

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The Collection – a revolutionary trendy ‘appazine’ for iPad

April 18, 2011

Have you ever thought about reading on your iPad the latest and hottest topics that only the top magazines can offer? The Collection Introducing the new iPad application called the “The Collection” – an appazine (a combination of app and magazine) – which was created to take journalistic apps to an entirely different new level. [...]

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Home improvement – making it easy with mobile apps

April 13, 2011

Just as rapid as the growth in sales of the iPhone (see How big a data plan do you really need for your iPhone, March 21 2011) has been the explosion in the number of apps you can download. From games and entertainment, through business productivity to planning your travel itinerary, the breadth of the [...]

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New eBook available: The Power of B&W in Adobe Lightroom & Beyond (A Masterclass)

April 12, 2011

The Power of Black & White in Adobe Lightroom & Beyond (A Masterclass) by Piet Van den Eynde is an exceptional course on creating black and white photographs in Adobe Lightroom. For the emerging photographer, digital black and white seems like it’s simply a mouse-click away but the process to create exceptional monochrome images requires [...]

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Free Applications for iPhones

March 28, 2011

Apple amazes everyone, mainly the gizmo freaks owing to its superb features and iphone apps which are fairly easy to install. The huge demand for the iPhones arises owing to its well integrated set of applications. The free iPhone applications can be found across wide categories namely news, entertainment, utilities and social networking etc. What [...]

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Best Wireless Routers for Mac Users

March 22, 2011

There are dozens of wireless routers in the retailers’ electronics departments that infamously claim to be “Mac compatible.” If you or one of your friends has ever purchased one of these routers, they either own a PC or know that compatible is used quite loosely. So what router should you buy if you have a [...]

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“The Evocative Image” – A Photographer’s Guide to Capturing Mood

February 24, 2011

A new ebook has just been released by Craft & Vision, titled The Evocative Image, written by Andrew S. Gibson. The Evocative Image is an inspiring introduction to the processes and techniques specific to making photographs that express what we feel. With great examples, creative exercises, and insightful comments Gibson offers up his unique perspective [...]

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Samsung release Galaxy S II with Android 2.3 Gingerbread

February 21, 2011

It is no wonder that Samsung would release the new smartphone Samsung Galaxy S II as its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S, has been a great success in the past year. Without further ado, let’s take a look at what you will get with the new Samsung Galaxy S II. When you get to hold [...]

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7 iPad Apps That Can Save You Money

February 19, 2011

Your iPad is capable of much more than gaming, browsing the web, checking email and staying up to date with everything on the social web. In fact, come to think of it, there’s not much that it can’t do – including helping you to stay on top of your personal finances. Hand picked from the [...]

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Review: Kata “Reflex-C” Camera Strap

February 15, 2011

You’d be surprised how hard it is to review a camera strap. I mean, it’s a strap. It holds your camera. What else is there? Actually, there’s more to it than that, and if you’re still shooting with your branded original camera strap, I’ll let you in on a secret: It sucks and it was [...]

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Review: Sony Walkman E450 (E453, 4GB)

February 9, 2011

The Sony Walkman E453 is a budget friendly MP3 and video player that comes in five different colors (red, green, black, blue and pink) so you should be able to find one that fits both your style (color) and your bank account (it’s not that expensive). Sony sent me a pink NWZ-E453 4GB to play [...]

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Using Visual Similarity In Image Searching on Your Mac

February 2, 2011

Some amazing developments in Mac software continue to come from both research centers and private developers. We are well aware of applications like Spring Cleaning from Smith Micro Software. This software will perform a large variety of functions, such as finding archives, disk images, empty folders, font files, superfluous help files, music, podcast and even [...]

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New eBook from Craft & Vision: Winter in the Canadian Rockies by Darwin Wigget

January 18, 2011

Winter in the Canadian Rockies by Darwin Wiggett is the newest ebook to be added to the Craft & Vision library and the latest in The Print & The Process Series. Darwin captures the spirit of Canada’s most striking mountain range in this monograph of breath-taking landscapes. Photographers of all levels, and geographic persuasion, will [...]

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Amazon Kindle revolutionizes reading habits

January 16, 2011

While we are all busy tracking earth shattering inventions and gadgets, there is a silent revolution taking place in the book publishing world. Ebooks have entered the domain which techies feared to enter – e-publishing. The pioneer in this field is once again Amazon which brought out the first real, paper-like ebook reader – The [...]

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Photography: What’s drawing the eye (visual mass)?

December 15, 2010

If you like taking pictures, then you’d probably prefer taking pictures that people like to look at as well. Sometimes we get lucky and capture a great shot, but often it takes a little bit of thought or planning to get it just right. Remember, don’t just take pictures – make them! One thing you, [...]

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readySTEADY – A much cheaper alternative to a Steadicam for stable video recordings [review]

November 21, 2010

The readySTEADY is one of those little “why didn’t I think of that?”-devices that’s very simple but can do a really good job. What readySTEADY does, is it helps you to stabilize your video recordings – if your camera is something like a Flip, Vado, Kodak Playsport, Sony Webbie or just about any other small [...]

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RSS Beacon for iPad – Yet another RSS reader [Review]

November 15, 2010

There’s a ton of RSS readers out there for iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad. RSS Beacon is somewhat just yet another RSS reader, but it has a few tricks up its sleeve. First of all, it has the social element, such as sharing to Twitter, e-mail etc., like most readers do nowadays, but [...]

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Quick Tip: Free Mac data recovery software

November 9, 2010

Just a quick tip for Mac users on how to recover deleted or lost data, such as pictures or documents. CleverFiles has just released Disk Drill, which is a new free Mac data recovery software. Disk Drill recovers damaged and deleted data from external or internal hard drives, memory cards, etc. and allows protecting data [...]

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Review: Nikon Lens Cup (24-70mm, 1:1, zoomable)

November 8, 2010

Hmm, a lens cup. How to review a lens cup. Well, it’s a cup. You can keep hot or cold drinks in it as well as drink from it. I guess that’s about it. But if you want more information… Canon lens cups have been around for quite some time now, though I doubt they [...]

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Review: Monitis – All-in-one server monitoring from the cloud

October 30, 2010

Monitoring your website is not only for big corporate sites – with the prices of today, everybody can do it and it’s especially important if you’re somewhat dependent on your website, or blog, to be online as much as possible. There’s no way you yourself will be able to monitor your site 24/7, that’s why [...]

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Free online game: “56 Sage Street” – can you make it?

October 8, 2010

Barclays’ 56 Sage Street is a free online single-player game that aims to challenge players, especially those belonging to the younger generation, on how to manage money wisely. The story is about a dying millionaire, Mr. C, who resides at 56 Sage Street, hence the title of the game. Mr. C is searching for a [...]

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HTC Desire HD vs HTC Mozart – Froyo vs WP7

October 5, 2010

High Tech Computer Corp, commonly known as HTC, is one of the top smartphone brands in the world. Even the iconic Nexus One had been developed by this company, for Google. Both Google and HTC have shared a very steady relationship since the birth of the Android platform. The HTC Dream, was in fact the [...]

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5 iPhone apps that can save you money

October 3, 2010

On June 11, 2007 Apple announced that the iPhone would support third party applications and since then, their rise has been phenomenal. As of July 2008, there were only 500 applications available from the Apple iStore but that number soon rapidly grew. As of this month, September 2010 there are over 250,000 apps in circulation [...]

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Samsung Epic 4G: A Super Multimedia Phone [review]

September 10, 2010

The Samsung Epic 4G is very much unlike its Galaxy S siblings as it has a physical keyboard and a front-facing camera. This is currently the second phone that runs on Sprint’s 4G network and as of August 20, 2010, it is priced at $250 along with a two-year contract from Sprint. The question now [...]

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Review: Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones

September 3, 2010

On my recent vacation in the United States, I suddenly found myself in a Bose outlet store in Leesburg Premium Outlet. An outlet center filled with boring clothing shops, if you ask me But the Bose shop instantly caught my attention. Initially I just wanted to look at their products and see if I could [...]

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Review: Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet [iPad]

August 30, 2010

Like photography? Own an iPad or iPhone? Then you’re gonna want to check out Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet app. There’s both an iPad and an iPhone version out, the iPad version is $8.99 and iPhone version is $4.99 in the US iTunes Store. This review is based on the iPad version and if you [...]

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