"Gadget" Greg Gazin Demystifies Tech & Life in a useful, fun & practical way!
Propping up your camera or video recorder properly can often act as the ultimate test of patience. You seem to be forever at the mercy of the tripod itself and the surface it’s sitting on. You always need to make sure you’re centred and have adjusted each of the tripod’s legs until it’s just right. Sometimes the table wobbles or the tripod slips on the surface and you’re frustrated even before you’ve started shooting.
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After 2 1/2 decades with the same look Microsoft unveils a new logo for the company. The logo will consist of 2 components; their symbol consisting of the 4 colour squares signifying its diverse portfolio of products and a logotype in the Segoe font, the same one used in their marketing communications.
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With the price of Facebook shares dropping to about 50% of their issue price, Mark Zuckerberg and company is likely no longer the darling of Wall Street but regardless, people are certainly still willing not only to hear what he has to say, but also about what’s on his barbecue.
iOS devices have decent little built-in microphones but of course, they have their limitations. So IK Multimedia decided to come up with the iRig Mic Cast, an ultra-compact microphone, that’s designed, with no pun intended, to take the recording capability on your iDevice to the next level.
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After all the buzz and announcements regarding Apple’s Mountain Lion, or OS X 10.8 the OS X’s 9th major release and the over 200 new features it would bring, I couldn’t wait to take it for a test drive. I quickly recalled the events of a year ago during the last major release, Mac OS X Lion. It was then l made the unfortunate choice of sitting and watching the screen anxiously as the new OS downloaded and proceeded to install. So this time, acknowledging the comprehensive update of Apple’s latest cat, which weighs in at a hefty 4.05GB, I decided I would do it a little differently.
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Probably much to everyone’s surprise, some of you will be able to watch the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Olympics streamed live over the Internet. According to a post on Mashable, the chairman of NBC Sports acknowledged that their less than spectacular handling of the opening ceremonies led to the change of heart.
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While many of us have been glued to our entertainment devices – iPads, iPhone and televisions watching the London 2012 Summer Olympics, something a little more out of this world happened early Monday morning August 6th. If you’re curious, you’re partially right because after an extremely intense descent, NASA’s rover interestingly named Curiosity, landed safely on Mars.
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If you like to quickly and easily create slideshow presentations that are sleek and professional and not simply a series of pictures strung together with a little music added to the background then here’s a little offer you can’t refuse.
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EDMONTON, AB, Aug. 1, 2012/ Troy Media/ – Apple’s record of breaking records continues. In just four days, Apple says, the number of downloads of its latest operating system – Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) has exceeded three million copies. READ FULL STORY AT TROYMEDIA
You find yourself stuck in a situation where you need to make an emergency phone call but sadly your phone is dead with no power source in sight. You say to yourself, “I wish I had a spare one”. XPAL Power Inc. has developed a product for that and it’s appropriately called SpareOne. It’s a low-cost, vanilla emergency mobile phone that’s designed to be there just when you need it. It can call 911 with or without a SIM card and can operate as a phone with one installed.
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