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  • 13 February 2013

  • News: Product snapshot: Canon PowerShot G15 camera

    As point-and-shoot cameras go, there are two distinct categories. You can buy a point-and-shoot camera without a great deal of control -- these are made for people who just want to take photos, with no fussing around.

  • News: Product snapshot: Panasonic LUMIX GF5 camera

    Micro Four-Thirds is a ‘mirrorless’ interchangeable lens digital camera system and lens mount family. If that all sounds a little daunting, here’s a simpler explanation: these cameras have big sensors (like chunky digital SLRs) stuffed into tiny bodies, because all the unnecessary and complicated pieces of their designs have been abandoned.

  • 12 February 2013

  • News: How to key a shot with Final Cut Pro X

    You've seen it in countless Hollywood movies. And it's easier than ever to do yourself. I'm talking about compositing: the process of combining a foreground subject and a background "plate" to create a single "composite" image. By shooting a subject against a colored background and then using software to remove the color, you can place your subject in any environment you like. This process is called "keying" or "pulling a key."

  • 11 February 2013

  • News: AMD promises to squash confusion and quickly clarify 2013 Radeon plans

    The graphics geeks were a-buzzin' this weekend, spurred on by an interview with an AMD product manager that suggests the company might not be releasing new Radeon HD 8000 series graphics cards until late in 2013--or possibly until 2014. Could AMD really be content to sit pat with the current Radeon HD 7000 lineup for the rest of the year?

  • 07 February 2013

  • News: Judge invalidates 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims in Microsoft case

    A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft.

  • News: 33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6

    Perhaps you are already an iOS master. Or maybe you consider yourself more of a novice. Either way, we feel confident that at least some of the tips and tricks for iOS 6 that we present below will be new to you. What's more, we hope you love them--and benefit from them--as much as we do.

  • News: Nokia to launch 41Mp PureView Lumia smartphone

    Nokia is planning to make a 41Mp PureView camera Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphone.

  • 04 February 2013

  • News: The Cat Empire and more live and free from Internode

    As part of its sponsorship agreement with WOMADelaide, Internet service provider (ISP), Internode, will offer free, high definition live streams of key performances from the 2013 instalment of the event.

  • News: Google and Mozilla hail WebRTC interop between Chrome and Firefox

    Developers now can create audio and video communications applications that work across the Chrome and Firefox browsers without the need for plug-ins.

  • News: Expo Notes: Hyper launches CameraMator DSLR device at Macworld/iWorld

    Photographers love the freedom and flexibility of creating images, but when the shooting environment becomes complex, the folks behind the lens need all the help they can get. Hyper's CameraMator, a wireless tethered photography device, lets you see and remotely control your shoot from a distance on an iPad, iPhone, Mac, or Android device.

  • News: Expo Notes: BuzzCard gives your blogs, podcasts that polished video edge

    Somehow, it doesn't look like a business app. But it is.

  • News: Panasonic doubles color sensitivity of digital camera sensors

    Panasonic has developed a new way to drastically increase the color and light sensitivity of digital cameras including those used in smartphones.

  • 01 February 2013

  • News: Will.i.am talks tech, new phone accessories at Macworld/iWorld

    Hip-hop star Will.i.am is best known for his music projects, but the Black Eyed Peas rapper is branching out into tech.

  • 29 January 2013

  • News: New version of Manga Studio captures comic art in color

    Comic book artists have long depended on Smith Micro's Manga software to draw, lay out, illustrate, and publish Japanese-style manga comics and similar artwork. Manga Studio 5, a new upgrade, promises an even greater degree of creativity and functionality.

  • News: Macworld contest winners: iPhone panoramic photos

    First, we gave some tips and pointers on how to make the most out of iOS 6's panoramic photo feature, and then we asked our readers to submit their best shots. Boy, were we impressed! We received more than 300 entries for our latest Macworld contest, and were blown away with the beautiful photos we receieved. Beaches, sunsets, football stadiums, bridges, cities, and tons of gorgeous landscape shots flooded our inbox, making this a particularly difficult contest to judge.

  • 26 January 2013

  • News: BBC iPlayer booms on mobiles as PC popularity fades

    The BBC’s iPlayer service served a record-breaking 2.32 billion programme requests in 2012, but it was mobiles and not PCs driving the boom, the BBC has reported.

  • News: ITU group OKs H.265 video standard to cut bandwidth use in half

    An ITU group has approved a successor to the H.264 video encoding standard, opening the door to future video transmission using only half the bandwidth that's now required.

  • 25 January 2013

  • News: Vine's blocked Facebook search rooted in larger trends

    The blocked Facebook friend-search feature on Twitter's new Vine mobile video app may be an annoyance for users, but it's all part of the social networking game.

  • 24 January 2013

  • News: Twitter 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 can create with Vine must be worth 144,000 words or so, by today's exchange rates.

  • News: Twitter announces Vine for video

    Twitter has announced a new mobile video sharing service, called Vine, designed to allow users to connect through short video clips in a fashion akin to tweeting.

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