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The new generation of smartphones and digital SLRs make it very easy to take panoramic photos and time-lapse films that would be inconceivable at the price point a few years ago. But if you want to take the pictures to the next level without investing a fortune in accessories, you need to check out the Veho MUVI X-Lapse. It's a
I don't know if I should be happy or angry with YouMail today. Every company needs to make money or otherwise it has a way of ceasing to exist. YouMail has a great free version of it's service and I have been a happy customer for quite some time now. Today, however, a message in my inbox announced some changes,
Do you have a big camping trip planned? Are you preparing for the next big storm? IOGEAR has released it's new Ultra Capacity Mobile Power Station to get you ready for those and other events. The GMP10K packs in an incredible 11,000 mAh capacity to keep all of your devices alive when you run out of other options. The new device
One of the machines I have is a 6 year old 13” white plastic Intel MacBook. In recent years I’ve used it as a backup machine just in case I needed it. It has a 2 gigahertz Core 2 Duo processor and is maxed out at 2 gigabytes of RAM. Solid State Drive prices have been dropping lately, so I
Just a quickie for UK readers. Email in from Google to say that the Nexus 4 is going back on sale at 5pm today.
The British Museum's Impressions of Nations is now online and it shows coins from every United Nations member state. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, they're all here, though as the Museum points out, not every country issues coins. Looking through the coins, eagles are popular images,with lions, elephants and fish also appearing. Queen Elizabeth II is the single most represented person
There has been an interesting update to the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that was about Facebook's “Sponsored Stories”. This is the lawsuit that was filed in federal court in San Jose, California, by five Facebook members who were upset after seeing their likenesses appear on one of Facebook's “Sponsored Stories” without their permission. In short, the five people said
This is the 22nd show I have done on the road this year and my 70th night in a Hotel this year if you add up Vegas and all my other trips it accounts for a lot of time pulling gear around. In early 2012 I worked on perfecting my road show and tonight I think it was pretty close
Mozilla is becoming more social. Today the Firefox web browser maker announced full integration with Facebook Messenger. The app works much the same as any Firefox add-on, but it has been built on some brand new technology. Messenger for Firefox utilizes the new Social API from Mozilla. Users will need to be running the latest version of Firefox, but seeing as the
While this may or may not have anything to do with the earlier Facebook-Zynga news, the company has quietly bought up several new domains. A major internet company buying up domain names may not be normally news, but when it's Facebook and it comes on the heels of other major news surrounding the company, it becomes magnified. On November 30th (yesterday) Facebook
GigaPan brings you Gigapan images that you can explore by zooming in, zooming out, and moving the image around. This is a whole new way to look at photography, and it combines very nicely with social media. What's a Gigapan? Gigapans are gigapixel panoramas. They are digital images that have billions of pixels. They have a clarity that other photos
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