I had an idea that somebody with more time and dev skills could run with. Here it is: write an app that allows someone to plug the iPhone or an iPod Touch into an external hard drive and browse its contents.
I have to deal with literally hundreds of external hard drives clients give me, and [...]
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Videographers Wishlist for the iPad
Published by February 3rd, 2010 in Technology and apple. 0 CommentsGary from Videoguys created a videographer’s wishlist for the recently announced Apple iPad. Given its limitations and closed development those wishes probably will remain dreams for the time being but the ideas are great. What’s your idea?
Make sure to follow Gary Bettan and Videoguys on Twitter @videoguys
Expensive Analysts VS Listening To Your Market
Published by October 3rd, 2009 in Sales & Marketing and Technology. 0 CommentsA quick thought…
I’m reading news coverage of a Morgan Stanley analyst (Kathryn Huberty) “predicting” that Apple’s iPhone would do much better without carrier exclusivity, that is, making the iPhone available on wireless provider networks other than AT&T.
The news articles generally make it sound like this is a new idea nobody else had thought of before.
A [...]
NEC 43 Inch Curved Monitor a Video Editors Dream
Published by June 4th, 2009 in Gadgets and Technology. 0 CommentsOMG I so want one of these! For around $8000 NEC now offers this 43 inch curved (!), ultra- wide monitor.
As someone who constantly works with horizontally elongated timelines (editing and music production software mainly), NEC CRV43 would be fantastic to have. I was giddy when I got my first wide screen 24 inch monitor [...]
ALPS Touchpad Driver Windows 7
Published by May 18th, 2009 in Software Resources, Technology and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsIf your laptop’s touchpad doesn’t scroll properly on Windows 7 or Vista your driver needs to be updated.
Here is a driver provided by Dell for the ALPS touchpad. However, this driver may work on other touchpad brands as well so give it a try.
ALPS Touchpad Driver for Vista and Windows 7 32 bit
Other Windows 7 [...]
Wolfram Alpha – Computable Knowledge
Published by May 16th, 2009 in Search Engines and Technology. 0 CommentsI’m rarely impressed these days but Wolfram Alpha manages to get my attention. While “semantic web” is one of the key phrases you hear being thrown around every so often, current search engine technologies, while much improved over the years, is still not able to deliver results beyond a certain level of sophistication.
WOLFRAM ALPHA vs [...]
Google Outage – Let This Be a Reminder
Published by May 15th, 2009 in Search Engines, Technology and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsJust a quick note on the Google outage on Thursday – if you are entrusting your important business documents or email to Google you are, frankly, an idiot.
WHAT HAPPENED
Google went down for parts of the world and with it went their mail service and Google docs. If you couldn’t access your business documents or missed [...]
Wireless Charging is Here – Powermat – Palm Pre
Published by May 1st, 2009 in Gadgets, Technology and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsFace it, wires suck. You have your laptop or your other gizmo here and now you have to find a power outlet to plug it in because once again your battery is dead. Later you want to move your laptop but can’t because the power cable is about the length of your forearm and you [...]
Market 7 Free Subscription
Published by April 6th, 2009 in Software Resources, Technology and Video Editing. 0 CommentsGood news for those who followed my Market7 review from a few weeks ago.
Today I received an email from Brian Baumley announcing several different subscription packages including – get this – a FREE one. He wrote:
(…) Market7 (www.market7.com) is introducing a variety of subscription packages (including free!) for its online video collaboration services to fit [...]
Video Collaboration by Market7 – Review
Published by February 21st, 2009 in Kroy Recommends, Reviews, Technology, Video Editing, Video Software and digital content creation. 0 CommentsRemember I told you about a tool for video editors, production teams, and clients that got me quite excited? Today I am happy to share with you my thoughts on Market7, a production collaboration service that works entirely online. Nothing to install and it works regardless if you or anyone you work with are on [...]
New Super Secret Revolutionary Video Production Tool
Published by February 8th, 2009 in Software Resources, Technology, Video Editing, Video Software and digital content creation. 0 CommentsWatch this space folks! I’ve been approached by a company that has a new tool for my fellow video and production folks that’ll downright revolutionize your workflow. I’ve had a mind blowing introduction to it from its creators and I’ve come away quite impressed.
This is a wonderful new tool for: video editors, production teams, animators, [...]
Solid State Disks vs Hard Disk Drives
Published by December 30th, 2008 in Hardware Reviews and Technology. 0 CommentsHere’s a side by side comparison between solid state disks (SSDs) and conventional hard disk drives (HDDs, the mechanical stuff you probably have in your system).
The video came from Samsung, one of the tech companies who jumped on the SSD wagon early. Keep in mind this video is far from recent but it gives some [...]
Tests and Benchmarks for new Dell XPS 730x with Core i7
Published by December 23rd, 2008 in Hardware Reviews, Technology, Video Editing and digital content creation. 0 CommentsThe folks over at HotHardware.com did a thorough write-up on Dell’s new XPS 730 series with Core i7 equipped machines. Very thorough.
We don’t care about gaming at all but for digital content creation (DCC) the XPS 730 seems a great fit.
Personally I don’t like the chassis look of this thing at all, but we’ll need [...]
Podcast: Shooting Content with Kroy Pt1.
Published by October 15th, 2008 in Because You Asked, Editing with Kroy, Marketing with Kroy, Shooting with Kroy, Technology, Video, Video Editing and Video Software. 0 CommentsThe SiN 2.0 Sex Information Network, a news and information center for professionals in the adult industry, just put up my recent interview. J-SiN and me discuss Content Production (video and photos).
J-SiN and me had a lot of fun so the interview went a bit long and it’s broken down into two parts. Part one [...]
New Apple MacBooks and 24 Inch Display and Blu-ray Troubles
Published by October 14th, 2008 in Gadgets, Technology and Video Editing. 0 CommentsNope, I won’t be talking about the “new” Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, or the 24 inch Apple display that were announced by a scarily thin Steve Jobs today.
(image to the left stolen from Gizmodo. Hello, Giz. Love ya!)
Go to Engadget or Gizmodo for your fix. Warning: nothing too exciting here, new MacBooks look more like [...]