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What Separates Us Smartphone Photographers from the Pros

Given how good smartphone cameras have become, it’s relatively easy to take a good-looking picture (especially coupled with a versatile photo-editing app).  Run of the mill point-and-shoot digital camera are powerful enough to take a very high-quality shot.  So what is it that professional photographers do take to their photos to the next level? Last … Continue reading

Waze: The Only Way to Travel

The power of the average smartphone has grown immensely.  Over the last 5+ years, we’ve watched smartphones replace device after device, as their capabilities have increased.  We no longer carry around MP3 players.  I don’t remember the last time I saw someone walking around with a digital camera.  And when’s the last time you drove … Continue reading

Do It Yourself: Iron Man Hand Repulsor

Halloween is only four days away!  Some of us are counting down the days until we can finally break out the costume we’ve been putting together for the last few weeks.  The procrastinations are realizing there is just enough time to put something together and still look like there was some actual effort put into … Continue reading

Snapseed = Instagram on Steroids

Now that we’ve got cell phones with cameras capable of shooting up to 41-megapixel photos and 1080p HD video, everybody’s a smartphone photographer.  Unless you’ve spent hundreds (or thousands) on a D-SLR camera, many of us don’t see the point of carrying a standalone camera.  However there seems to be a huge gap in the … Continue reading

Klout: The Power of Social Media

The power and influence of Social Media is something I’ve been very interested in learning more about for years.  That curiosity along with a few of this week’s tweets from our in-house Twitter Legend, Gino (@GinoTheGhost) sparked me to investigate Social Media even further.  That research led me to a company called Socialnomics, which specializes in shedding … Continue reading

Apple’s iPhone 5, worth the hype?

Before any of you jump down my throat and start accusing me of being some pro-Windows, pro-Google, anti-Apple, hater, nerd, anti-mainstream freak, let me preface this whole article with this…. I LOVE APPLE!  I have owned almost every Apple product since the PowerMac desktops of the early and mid 1990s.  I love the style, design, … Continue reading

Live365, the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I don’t usually call something “the greatest thing since sliced bread”, but when I do it’s no exaggeration. Ever since my trial subscription to XM Radio expired I’ve been dying to fill the commercial free, massive variety of genres, and huge station selection void it left behind.  Live365 is the answer.  Live365 is a network of … Continue reading