Category: Software

  • Diptic: The Coolest Photo App Ever (With a Mediocre Name)

    Ever want to share a bunch of photos, but couldn’t make up your mind which? Whether you post on Facebook or attach them to an email, it would be great to combine a bunch of related shots into a single image. The app, “Diptic” (available on Apple devices and Android) lets you do exactly that.…

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  • Flickr Makes its Move

    Over the last month, there’s been some interesting maneuvering going on in the photo-sharing community. Specifically, once-dominant Flickr, which had been stagnating in comparison to its made-for-smartphone rival, Instagram, has made a couple of moves likely to put it back into a dominant position in its genre. First was the release of Flickr’s new app,…

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  • iPad for video and music creation

    Although you can’t beat the price for video and music editing software when it comes to iFilm and GarageBand for the iPad, trying to create a video from top to bottom using nothing but an iPad 2 still leaves a bit to be desired.  Probably people who have never used any other video or music…

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  • Sandboarding. Swakopmund. Sony Vegas

    For years, I’ve been editing with versions of Adobe Premiere and Premiere Elements, and the one complaint I’ve always had is its tendency to lock up on most computers.  The exception has been my old desktop running XP with 512 MB memory – but even there, I’ve got to restart the computer after I finish…

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