As some of you may already be aware, last week Google decided to launch a new pilot project for its users, a service which it bills as the natural next step in its YouTube Partner Program. A number of select partners now have the ability to offer paid subscriptions to its users. This announcement isn’t [...]
Pretty much my favorite thing about PC gaming can be boiled down to a single word: customization. There exists a great many dedicated, talented hobbyists and amateur designers out there who, given the proper tools, can cobble together some downright incredible experiences. A few of the video game mods I’ve played were actually better than [...]
Are you sharing your location on social media? Are you checking in on Foursquare? And, are you checking in on Facebook? Or, even if you’re not checking in, are you telling the world where you’re located every time you post a status update? There are security risks with being so public about your location so [...]
Samsung has recently introduced their Galaxy S4. And, I recently had the opportunity to check it out. Now, I preface everything here with this… I am a long-time iPhone user. I took a temporary hiatus into the world of Android awhile back, and was quite disappointed. So, what did I think about the Samsung Galaxy [...]
It really is amazing sometimes just how connected we are to the Internet. It used to be that going online was a bit of a novelty. We’d buy a computer just so we could go online, and internet connectivity was something that we looked at as special. Remember those AOL discs? Today, many of us [...]
There’s actually quite a bit more to Windows 7 than a lot of users seem to realize. This is actually somewhat surprising, given how long the operating system has been on the market – and given the fact that Microsoft has already (perhaps mistakenly) moved on to pimping Windows 8. Given that many of us [...]
I don’t think I’d be exaggerating if I were to refer to Twitter as my favorite social network. It’s a downright incredible platform, and an excellent means of communication. As an added bonus, it’s all this without the rather disconcerting privacy concerns of Facebook. It’s where I go to get most of my news on [...]
To make good videos with almost any camera, it is good to remove vibrations from hand-holding it. And, the most common way to do that is by mounting it on a tripod. Problem is, mounting a smartphone onto a tripod requires some extra gear. Whereas almost all cameras have a tripod mount on them, phones [...]
There’s so much content floating around the Internet, it’s incredibly easy to feel like one’s drowning under it all, to feel like one’s gotten lost in the constant, continual surge of information. It’s not even how much data we’re processing, so much as it is the wide array of sources we’re processing all of it [...]
Ever tried to record video with a point-and-shoot camera, smartphone, or…. well, ANY camera, and do so using the built-in microphone? What does it sound like? Garbage, that’s what. The resulting audio is noisy, full of hiss in some cases, and it picks up every little background noise going on. The subject of the video [...]
