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

November 21, 2010
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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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Photoshop vs Photoshop Elements: Which One Is Right for You?

November 2, 2010
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If you’re in the market for an image editing software, chances are you’re choosing between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Both are excellent software for manipulating digital photographs and images. In this article, I’ll discuss some of the ways the two software are different. Hopefully, after reading this, you can make an informed decision. Keep in [...]

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3 Best Smartphones In The Market

October 6, 2010
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Smartphones are more than phones that you can not only make calls, but also use them to read and send emails, browse websites, use as personal organizers with to-do list and calendars, electronic books, automatic reminders and alarms, meetings and memos, business tools and digital cameras, GPS navigators and much more. 2010 has been more [...]

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Friday Flick Find: The PEN Story – stop motion video of stop motion, amazing!

September 24, 2010
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Some stop motion videos suck, some are good and some are just amazing – like this one, which took around 60,000 pictures to shoot and contains 9,600 developed prints. I can’t even imagine how many hours were spent making this 3 minute video! Click here for more great Friday Flick Find videos!

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Free giveaway: Daniusoft “Video Converter for Mac” – 3 Licenses ($35 each)

September 16, 2010
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TechPatio is happy to announce the first free giveaway draw in the history of this blog. Thanks to Daniusoft for providing three licenses that we may give away for free to our readers! Daniusoft Video Converter for Mac is a full-featured piece of software that will convert video and audio in excellent quality. Obviously it [...]

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Sony introduces super-slim Walkman S750 with noise cancelling tech

September 15, 2010
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Sony is busy at the moment, yesterday introducing a new speaker dock for iPhone/iPod, the RDP-X50iP, and today they’re giving us a brand new Walkman music player, the S750. This colourful video MP3 player lets you enjoy your music, videos and podcasts in unmistakeable style. Key features of the WALKMAN S750 are: Superb Walkman sound [...]

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How to Choose the Right Digital Video Camcorder For You

September 14, 2010
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Are you going to buy a digital video camcorder, but you have no idea how to choose the right one for you? There are many people who have bought a digital video camcorder for many reasons such as capturing their child’s milestones, their pets, funny moments, vacation trips, and just about everything and anything under [...]

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Friday Flick Find: “Don’t be evil?” – Eric Schmidt parody

September 10, 2010
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Consumer Watchdog in the United States is behind this cartoon parody video of Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt. The video makes it clear that nothing is free and even though the kids does get “free” ice cream, they’re actually paying by giving up information about themselves. Sound familiar…? The video also features the well-known comment from [...]

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Outsource all your video work?

September 7, 2010
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If you’re like me, you’ll know how frustrating the whole online video production process can be. There’s just so much to learn, and so much to do, and to be honest, it can do your head in! But it doesn’t have to be that way… Powerful online video marketer, Gideon Shalwick, is running a brand [...]

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Friday Flick Find: IBM 305 RAMAC – 1956 Promo Video

September 3, 2010
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Sometimes it can be a good idea to take a step back in time and see how things were done back then – also when it comes to technology, but mostly because it’s interesting to see how things used to work. The IBM 305 RAMAC might not be an iPhone killer (or is it?), but [...]

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YouTube Tip: Link to Specific Timestamp in Video

August 19, 2010
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I often find that I don’t need to share a full YouTube video with somebody, I just need them to see a certain part and so I tell them to just skip ahead to whatever timestamp that certain part is about to start. There is something much easier though (for the recipient), that not many [...]

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iPhone 4 Commercial Parody [Fun Video]

August 16, 2010
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There are more Apple parody videos on the net that you could probably ever count and this is one of the better, and newer, I think. This one is based on the iPhone 4 video where some high-standing Apple employees are talking about how great the iPhone 4 is. This one, however, also includes the [...]

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Video: Microsoft Created Real-Life ‘Nigeria Scam Letters’ – Teaches New Yorkers A Lesson

August 11, 2010
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We continue to see videos like the one below, popping up every now and then and sometimes also as part of certain promotions, but there’s a reason for it – people continue to be stupid when it comes to giving up personal information that should have been kept personal, at all times. In the video [...]

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See How Easily Video Cash Is Made [YouTube]

August 7, 2010
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If there’s one thing I hear all the time about making an income with video, it’s that it’s too HARD. Too time-consuming, difficult, expensive… Listen up friend: THAT IS SO 2005! Take Gideon Shalwick for instance. He cranks out cool videos pretty much as fast as he can think. These clips often get thousands of [...]

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Got my iPhone 4!!! So, what about the antenna? Video inside…

August 3, 2010
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I finally got my iPhone 4 after having ordered it on launch day, July 30th. Thanks to a friend of mine in Denmark who ordered it with a contract, I bought it from him as he was satisfied with his current iPhone 3GS and didn’t mind extending his contract with another six months. Lucky me. [...]

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Star Wars Voices For Your TomTom GPS – Get Them, You Must!

July 13, 2010
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Oh man, it’s times like these that I miss my TomTom GPS which I let go after I bought Navigon for iPhone (which is great, by the way!). Back when I did have my TomTom, I had it with the Homer Simpson voice. Weird, I know, but it was fun! Now it gets even better, [...]

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Whoa! YouTube Adds Support for 4K video

July 12, 2010
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It’s just about 8 months since YouTube added support for 1080p video, also known as Full HD, and now they’re ready with an even higher resolution: 4K. 4K video has a resolution of, you better sit down, 4096×2304 pixels. That’s more than four times as much as Full HD (1080p). I don’t think my Mac [...]

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iPhone 4 & Droid Incredible – Robotic Disassembly by TechRestore

July 8, 2010
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Remember the iPad disassembly video by TechRestore? That was really cool. Now TechRestore did it again with the iPhone 4 (and the Droid, but that’s an older video). I don’t know why, there’s just something really cool about these videoes – it’s probably the robotic sounds and movements and the fact that you get to [...]

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Browsing Speed Compared: iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS

July 7, 2010
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This is probably a no-brainer as the iPhone 4 really should have faster browsing speed compared to iPhone 3GS. Nevertheless, it’s nice to actually see the difference in a side-by-side video like the one below by Obama Pacman. You could even use this as an excuse to go out and upgrade your 3GS to iPhone [...]

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iPhone 4 Retina Display Review vs iPhone 3GS Display [video]

June 28, 2010
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I’ve been posting a lot about the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 recently, but it’s a hot topic at the moment and a topic that I’m very much interested in – and then when I find a video like the one below, I just have to share it with you guys. It demonstrates pretty well [...]

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iPhone 4 Cell Reception Suffers When Touching Its Stainless Steel Band (UPDATE: Or Software Issue?)

June 24, 2010
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Scroll down for updates to this article. A video on YouTube is showing what some of us feared – that the cell reception suffers when you touch the stainless steel band that surrounds the iPhone, holding the two pieces of glas (front and back) together while also acting as antennas. There’s not much news about [...]

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Facebook Privacy Settings Exploit (Video)

May 7, 2010
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On a big site like Facebook (read more posts about Facebook), there will always be some kind of exploit available, just waiting to be found – sometimes already found by somebody. Once such an exploithas been fixed by Facebook, it’s just a matter of time before another one appears. It happens for everybody and I [...]

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Three New iPhone Ads – Backpacker, Dog Lover & Family Man

April 22, 2010
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Three new iPhone ads have come from Apple this past week, “Backpacker”, “Dog Lover” and “Family Man”. Backpacker The “Backpacker” ad shows a college graduate making a trip to Spain and we get to see how iPhone apps assist him on his trip. The app that translates spoken English into spoken Spanish seems very cool, [...]

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Steve Jobs Responds to Gizmodo iPhone Leak [Fun Video]

April 21, 2010
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Hey, did you hear about the new iPhone yet? The one found at a bar? Then suddenly in the hands of Gizmodo? And next it was all over the news and the Internet? Yeah, that’s the one. iPhone 4G or iPhone HD, whatever it will be named. Well, Apple sent a letter to Gizmodo, few [...]

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iPad Taken Apart By TechRestore, Cool Stop-Motion Video!

April 19, 2010
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This is the coolest unpack/disassembly video I’ve ever seen. Well, at least that I can remember It’s a stop-motion video created by TechRestore. Besides the cool sound effects, we also get to see the iPad deep inside. For instance, it has two built-in batteries with more than 5x as much capacity as the iPhone. Here’s [...]

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Friday Flick Find: The Italian Man Who Went To Malta

April 16, 2010
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It’s Friday and that calls for a new Friday Flick Find video. I figured, since the Pope (Benedict XVI) will be visiting Malta this weekend, that the video for today should be something about Malta. Just so we’re clear, this video has nothing to do with the Pope (I’m not going to have some crazy [...]

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