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| Helping Clients Buy What They Want And Love It |
| We use these kinds of shortcuts daily. Our minds are biased to prioritise certain pieces of information above others, like over-arching ‘rules of thumb’. Generally, this approach saves time and allows us to make satisfactory decisions, particularly when we’re unfamiliar with the choices. |
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| Top 10 Headphones - Jan 2013 |
| Bose’s latest long-haul headphones are its finest yet. Wearing a pair is as comfortable as binding pillows to your head with silken thread, and both sound and noise cancelling are exemplary. For a louder, more rocking listen, try Monster’s Beats Studio. |
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| Top 10 Hi-Fi & Music Streaming - Jan 2013 |
| In a world awash with AirPlay-equipped docks, the new SoundSpheres create a niche for themselves by offering proper two channel stereo output. Idiosyncratic looks ensure they'll stand out even further from the crowd, and they sound great too. |
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| Samsung Galaxy Camera - Click And Share Instantly |
| Samsung has launched the Galaxy Camera, a digital camera that uses the Android operating system. It isn't the world's first Android camera. Polaroid and Nikon previewed similar cameras earlier this year. |
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| New Year Gift Guide 2013 (Part 5) |
| For video streaming on a budget, it's hard to beat Roku's LT. It might only manage 720p but with iPlayer, Netflix, Vimeo and built-in Wi-Fi, it's the perfect bedroom streamer. Like the Roku, but want a little more? The Roku 2 XS is £100 and has 1080p, a remote, and a slot for memory expansion. |
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| New Year Gift Guide 2013 (Part 4) |
| Not all extreme sportsters need a fancy GPS camera to capture their 'nutter grabs’. This excellent - value full HD cam also records 720p@60fps and even comes with an expandable microSD card slot for recording more crazy antics. |
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| New Year Gift Guide 2013 (Part 3) |
| The little brother to Fuji’s X-Pro 1, the X-E1 keeps the same mirror- less 16.1MP APS-C sensor, the XF lenses, the hotshoe and the EXR Processor Pro for sharp pics. It shoots 1080p video at 24p, plus it’ll do 350 snaps on a single charge. You can opt for the metal boxy clad only in the finest black leather or a two-tone black and silver model. |
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| New Year Gift Guide 2013 (Part 2) |
| Satisfy your nephew’s esoteric music tastes with this internet radio. Other than access to bags of music online via a 3.5in colour touchscreen, it’s also got DAB and FM radio, Last.fm and network streaming, and an iPod dock for the aural gannet. |
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| New Year Gift Guide 2013 (Part 1) |
| The Transformer Pad rocks a 10.1in screen and the latest quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, but it’s attachable keyboard is the real star. It gives the Transformer Pad an extra eight hours of battery life, along with microSD, microHDMI and USB ports, too. Ideal if you want to get things done on the go. |
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| AOC d2757Ph 27" 3D Monitor |
| The last AOC display I reviewed, with a built-in iPhone dock, didn't impress me. The limitations of that design were soon erased when I took delivery of the new AOC d2757Ph and its Film-type Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology. |
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| You Can Master RAW (Part 4) |
| Enhancing portraits is all about making selective adjustments to certain areas of the face. It can be helpful to think of the face as a series of zones, each requiring a particular edit. You’ll lighten the eyes, soften the skin, boost the lips and sharpen the lashes. |
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| You Can Master RAW (Part 3) |
| Sharpening is an essential step in the image-editing process, particularly when working with RAW files, which are usually softer than Jpegs – due to Jpegs being sharpened in-camera. There are two types of sharpening: Capture and Output. I |
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| You Can Master RAW (Part 2) |
| Adobe Camera RAW is the first port of call for RAW files, but it’s far more than just a quick stop off for converting your images. There’s surprising depth to the features on offer. You can’t make composite images, graphic designs or text, but you can make exactly the kind of edits photographers need to make, such as tonal adjustments, lens correction and sharpening. |
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| You Can Master RAW (Part 1) |
| Most of us probably began shooting images in Jpeg, and while some have made the switch to RAW, others are more reluctant. While it’s true that Jpegs have their advantages, in some ways RAW is the less complicated format. |
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| Happy iMas (Part 2) |
| The latest entry in a category we’re come to refer to as ‘twirly iPhone clamps’, Gripster is a thin stiff plastic backplate for your iPad 2,3 or 4 with a hefty rubberised grip attached. This takes the form or a D, with the straight side attached to the backplate on a pivot, so the curved part hinges out to form a stand. |
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| Happy iMas (Part 1) |
| Apple users can tricky to please. So we’ve rounded up some of the most compatible gifts you can give. Or, of course, receive. Just leave this article strategically placed around the home or office to be sure of seasonal satisfaction. |
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| Pod Botherers – Apple’s Rival High-End Headphones |
| Apple has finally replaced its dreadful old earphones. Those who don't like shoving things into their ear canals will appreciate that the EarPods sit just outside. There's no isolation, though, so sound leaks both ways, and while they sound good for free, those who don't get them with a new Apple portable can do better for similar money. |
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| Magnum KT120 New Light Amplifier Review |
| Magnum KT120 New is the newest integrated light of Rogue Audio firm (America). It has impressed output capacity 102W at one side. It has round sound quality, dense, particular, blending and useful for bass. |
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| DirectX 10 Game Programming : 3D Primer - Matrix Scaling, Matrix Translation |
| One of the transformations you can apply to an object is scaling. Scaling is the ability to shrink or grow an object by a certain factor. For instance, if you have a square centered on the origin that was two units wide and two units tall and you scaled it twice its size, you would have a square that now went four units in each direction. |
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| O&O MediaRecovery 8 - Excellent Tool For Media Recovery |
| We've all lost files at some point, and it can be very frustrating, especially if they were valuable or irreplaceable. With videos, photos and music all in digital form, we have a lot more files on our computers, disk drives, cameras, music players and USB memory sticks than we used to. I |
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| Adobe Premiere Elements 11.0 |
| Premiere Elements 11.0 is aimed at the iMovie-level user who isn’t yet ready for Final Cut Pro X. While, superficially, iMovie ‘11 and Premiere Elements 11.0 look, feel and do much the same, Adobe’s refresh adds a number of small improvements. |
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| Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.0 Premium |
| Speech-recognition isn’t for everyone but, after training the software to learn your voice, NaturallySpeaking translates accurately at great speed. A microphone headset in the boxed edition also improves accuracy. |
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| Choosing The Right Gear For The Right Job |
| Getting professional results when shooting video on DSLRs can take quite a bit of work. One thing you can do to make things easier and give yourself a better chance of producing great quality material is to ensure you have the right tools for the right job. With this in mind, I’m going to give you some ideas of good DSLR/lens combos for a variety of different DSLR video situations you’re likely to encounter. |
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| ViewSonic VSD220 - Turns Android Into A Desktop Computer |
| Imagine this scenario. You have a laptop computer with a monitor attached. It’s a nice, 22-inch monitor. Sometimes you don’t need the full laptop experience, but you do want to use the internet, access some apps or do some gaming. You fancy using Android. With the VSD22O you can do just that. |
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| Livescribe Sky 4GB Wi-Fi Smartpen |
| For any student, journalist or other semi-professional note-taker, a pen allowing you to to jot things down while recording audio is a blessing. If it can record your every pen stroke as well, then you're on to something special. However, this is all a bit too normal for Livescribe, which long ago mastered such tricks. |
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| Magnepan DWM Woofer Review |
| By adding DWM planar magnetic dipolar woofer, user can optimize bass for home theater featuring big-sized or medium-sized speakers. |
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| Livescribe Sky - Sync Your Handwritten Notes |
| Despite the existence of laptops, smart phones and tablets, there’s still something to be said for taking notes the old-fashioned way, with paper and pen. But that doesn’t mean paper and pen itself can’t be improved for the digital age. |
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| SteelSeries Flux Luxury Edition Gaming Headphones |
| SteelSeries makes a very large range of gaming headsets, targeting both console and PC players. The new Flux design covers bot and is also designed for those who like to listen to their mobile phone or tablet in some comfort. |
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| Hot Stuffs – January 2013 |
| You never hear a trap-jaw ant say anything incriminating, because it shuts its mouth quickly: at 50m/s, it’s over 2000 times faster than humans blink. Also, it can’t talk. |
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| Take Encoding Up A Level (Part 2) |
| If you thought all that was complicated enough then prepare to be terrified - we haven't even scratched the surface of video encoding here! In fact, we've probably taken a couple of shortcuts to keep this tutorial as slimed down as possible. |
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| Take Encoding Up A Level (Part 1) |
| Desktop PCs today are saturated with video. It floods in from all ports, and the scary thing is, the machines seem to take the punishment with ease. Where once we were thrilled to see a quarter-screen VGA video streamed from a CD, we now tut and roll our eyes if YouTube can't offer 1080p, leaving our eyeballs to endure mere 720p. |
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| Philips 7000 Series 46PFL7007 |
| Also available in 40- and 55in, the 46in 7007 is two steps down from Philip’s flagship 9707 Smart 3DTV. It’s a beauty to behold, with a thin 5mm metal bezel and a smart wedge stand that doubles as a wall mount. |
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| Virgin Takes The Plunge On Internet Television |
| Virgin media has released an app for iPhone and iPad owners who use its TiVo set-top box. The app controls the TiVo remotely over a wifi network to schedule and delete recordings and allows the device to be used as a gesture-based remote control. |
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| Handwriting Input And Recognition (Part 2) |
| If you have installed a graphics tablet, the Ink pane in System Preferences gives rapid access to automatic conversion of handwritten characters into text. If that pane doesn’t appear, download and install the latest driver for your tablet. Test conversion by connecting your tablet, opening a word or text editor, and turning on recognition in the Ink pane. |
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| Handwriting Input And Recognition (Part 1) |
| If you’ve spoken with Siri or pecked out a few paragraphs using your iPad’s virtual keyboard, you’ll know that traditional keyboards are no longer the only game when it comes to text entry. |
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| Get Reflective With Photoshop |
| As painters like Constable and Turner demonstrated in many of their masterpieces, water can enhance a landscape. On a calm day the ripple-free surface of a lake creates a natural mirror that adds a pleasing sense of symmetry to a scene. |
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| Tasty Treatments |
| Colour photography is all about reproducing the colours that were in the original scene - except when it isn’t. It may seem a little perverse if you spend your time trying to capture sharp, detailed, accurate photos, but flaws hold an intense fascination for many people. |
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