RIM buys video-editing vendor JayCut
Research In Motion has acquired JayCut, a Web-based video-editing software company, to bolster the multimedia capabilities of its PlayBook tablet.
View ArticleYou can finally buy shows on Apple TV
When Steve Jobs introduced the new Apple TV in September 2010, he made a strong case for renting television shows instead of buying them, but now the company is changing its strategy and letting users...
View ArticleYouTube, Google+ let users have video-watching party
Google+ users can now have a video-watching party on YouTube.
View ArticleIs Facebook bringing photo filters to its mobile app?
Is Facebook looking to take on popular photo filter apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic by bringing its own photo filter feature? According to some anonymous Facebook engineers quoted in The New York...
View ArticleAdobe embraces touch with six new apps
Adobe plans to release six applications designed to be used exclusively on touch-based devices, including apps to execute creative tasks such as photo editing and Web page design, the company announced...
View ArticleCool features your iPhone 4 gets after downloading Apple iOS 5
Apple's major overhaul of its iOS operating system arrives today, but amidst the excitement comes a major concern: Will iOS 5 function properly on older model iPhones? Or will there be an added circle...
View ArticleDigital photo retouching quantified in new metric
A pair of researchers from Dartmouth University have devised a metric for quantifying how much a digital photograph has been altered by digital photo-editing techniques.
View Article5 tips for using Apple's Siri without annoying people
Apple iPhone 4S users can easily annoy people around them by talking to their handset when using the built-in assistant feature known as Siri.
View ArticleTwitter launches Vine for sharing quick, looping videos
Twitter on Thursday released a new, video-focused iPhone app--replete with a social network of its own. If a tweet is 140 characters and a picture's worth 1000 words, a six-second video of the sort you...
View ArticleDoCoMo decodes new video standard without new hardware
Consumers might not have to upgrade their phones to take advantage of a new video compression system that can send high-definition images much more efficiently than today's most popular formats.
View ArticleiOgrapher turns your iPad mini into a video rig
Teacher Dave Basulto knows first hand what shrinking budgets can mean to school arts programs. His solution? Pair an inexpensive iPad mini with the iOgrapher (funding through April 13), a mounting...
View ArticleMaster the Camera app on iOS
Both the iPhone and the iPod touch make for stellar pocket cameras, and the iPad and iPad mini aren't too bad in a pinch either. An iOS device isn't perfect for every photographic need. But it can...
View ArticleHTC One debuts UltraPixel technology, but is the phone's camera all it's...
Is the HTC One a smartphone that takes pictures or a camera that makes phone calls? That question may sound facetious, but there's the buzz around the upcoming HTC One and its newfangled UltraPixel...
View ArticleWe put the HTC One's UltraPixels to the ultimate test
The weeks leading up the HTC One's reveal witnessed a lot of rhetoric from the Taiwanese mobile phone maker. HTC released videos and infographics explaining that cell phone cameras in general were...
View ArticleMozilla, Otoy team on JavaScript video codec
The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would eliminate the need for using plug-ins to view video in a...
View ArticleVideo comes to Instagram, with filters and stabilisation
Step aside, Vine: 15-second videos are coming to Instagram on iOS and Android, complete with basic editing, filters, and stabilisation.
View ArticleMake Windows Media Player the default audio player in Windows 8
Like many Windows 8 users, I spend most of my time using Desktop mode, which affords me a more Windows 7-like experience.
View Article30 awesome Instagram accounts you need to follow
Instagram has more than 130 million active users, but wading through all of that latte art to find the best of the best is no easy task.
View ArticleFlickr's slick iPhone update puts filters in the foreground
Flickr has unveiled updated camera shooting features such as new, live-view filters; customised filter adjustments; and sophisticated grid, zoom, focus, and exposure lock controls. And everything's...
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