Turbo.264 HD Review

Turbo.264 HD Review

July 16, 2010 in Hardware, Home Media by David John

High Definition video has pretty much reached the domestic market. The arrival of AVCHD has seen the firewire ports flounder on some Apple computers and SD card storage capacities boom with 16GB being the norm. Also this year both Vimeo and YouTube rolled out their High Definition services and the affordability of HD cameras is meaning SD is [...]

Creative Photography : The Lens Baby

Creative Photography : The Lens Baby

June 30, 2010 in Hardware by David John

It is one thing to use post production software such as Aperture or Lightroom to enhance the look of your photos but what about getting creative at the point of capture. This morning I have been playing with the brilliant Lensbaby Composer. If you haven’t heard of this lens before well in short if offers [...]

Elgato Video Capture Review

Elgato Video Capture Review

May 28, 2010 in Hardware by David John

Elgato have pretty covered most of our video needs with TV encoders (and EyeTV) for our TV capturing and editing needs. The Turbo.264 HD allows us to encode footage directly from AVCHD camcorders and virtually any other video format. Now the company tackles our analogue video needs in the form of “Video Capture” Video Capture [...]

Your money back if England wins the World Cup!

Your money back if England wins the World Cup!

March 25, 2010 in Featured, Hardware by David John

Elgato is offering its EyeTV DTT Deluxe TV stick in a one-time special promotion: If England wins the title, customers who purchased the EyeTV DTT Deluxe Football Edition during the promotion will receive a full refund of the RRP of 89,95 € (approx. 79.95 GBP, subject to current exchange rate). To be eligible, participants must [...]

Eye-Fi Pro X2 Released

Eye-Fi Pro X2 Released

in Hardware by David John

I have been using my Eye-Fi card with the Canon 500D for a few months and wouldn’t be without it (read the full review here). Well, Eye-Fi have just released the next generation Eye-Fi experience of the award-winning Eye-Fi Pro X2. The “X2” family of Eye-Fi cards have faster-than-ever wireless photo and video uploads, improved [...]

EyeTV Netstream DTT : TV Heaven

EyeTV Netstream DTT : TV Heaven

February 26, 2010 in Featured, Hardware, Home Media by David John

With the exception of Apple’s heralded iPad there really hasn’t been many technological announcements that have excited the TotalApps team. Even the Apple iPad doesn’t fill me with the same “I have to have it” feeling the iPhone launch created. Yesterday all that changed and the excitements were at their highest for 2010 when I [...]

New Canon 550D features 1080p HD

New Canon 550D features 1080p HD

February 8, 2010 in Hardware by David John

Canon have just announced the latest to their sub £1000 digital SLR range in the form of the new 550D.  The EOS 550D is a reasonable upgrade over the 500D especially if you use your camera for digital video production. The camera, incorporates technologies and features more commonly found in semi-professional DSLRs into the compact, [...]

Buffalo Updates Storage Line

Buffalo Updates Storage Line

February 5, 2010 in Hardware by David John

Buffalo Technology, have announced the availability of two brand new products. The first, IFC-EC2U3UC 2-port USB 3.0 Express Interface Card, which allows users to upgrade their laptops to take advantage of SuperSpeed USB 3.0.

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