Allison interviews Joseph Nilo representing FxFactory about their visual effects tools. FxFactory is a suite of over 1000 visual effects plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects. It includes editing tools for looks, color keying, titles, photo animation, transitions and more from independent developers. FxFactory also provides a free application that […]
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Password Playdate
I’ve been thinking a lot about how much using a password manager has made my online life easier and less frustrating, and of course more secure. I have a lot of friends who don’t use password managers and I hear them complaining, watch them pull out ragged paper lists, and I know they’re not using […]
Continue readingAppearances on MacCast and Clockwise
It’s been a busy week for me in podcast land. I had the great pleasure of joining Adam Christianson on The Maccast. He invited five of us to come on individually to talk to him about the Apple Watch and then compiled it into one long show including a segment on his own impressions. His […]
Continue readingPhotos App – More Discovery and Some Bugs
I haven’t talked much about the day to day experience of using Photos. I have to say it is positively awesome to have all of my photos on all of my devices. I bought a 1TB SSD in my MacBook Pro because I did not want to compromise on having all my photos, now I […]
Continue readingI AM Dick Tracy
Apple Watch 48 hour Impressions They say that behind every great woman is a great man, and that’s definitely the case with me and Steve. On Friday, also known as first Apple Watch delivery day, he stayed home for seven hours babysitting the doorbell not for delivery of his OWN watch, but for mine. Sadly […]
Continue readingTayzu’s Robotics Drone Can Land in Water!
Allison interviews Tayzu Robotics CEO Donald Scott about their new waterproof drone. This is the first quadcopter with waterproof motors and airframe. This drone is designed to takeoff and land in the water and comes equipped with a waterproof 3-axis gimbal to house a GoPro or other action camera. Although the airframe is not designed […]
Continue readingVSN Mobil V.360° Waterproof Action Camera
Allison interviews Matt Gordon from VSN Mobil about their new action camera. The waterproof and dustproof V.360° camera captures full 360 degree HD video using a single image sensor. Using a single sensor eliminates the need to stitch frames together to form the seamless 360 deg image. The setting is the ShowStoppers NAB 2015 show […]
Continue readingCan iCloud Photo Library Handle 58,820 Photos?
I’m into week two with the new Photos app and I’m still really liking it. My entire library did finally sync up from my Mac to iCloud Photo Library so I could see all 58,820 of my photos at icloud.com. They also all came back down in optimized versions on my iPhone. Oddly though, while […]
Continue readingIs it Time to Jump to Photos?
Last week OS X 10.10.3 was released and with it the production version of Photos. I’ll give a little bit of background for those who might not be watching every bit of this as closely as others. Photos is intended to replace both iPhoto for the casual photographer and Aperture which is used by professional […]
Continue readingDigital Audio Recording With Audio-Technica Wireless Mic
Allison interviews Brian Piper from Audio-Technica Camera-Mount System 10 Wireless Microphone Package. The System 10 digitally transmits/receives the audio signal and adaptively selects the cleanest channel to minimize interference. Using digital audio, the System 10 provides full HD quality audio to your recording device. System 10 supports either a wireless handheld mic or a lavelier […]
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