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Schneider Optics iPro 2x Tele Lens – Expert Review
Schneider Optics is a name that will likely be familiar to most professional photographers and enthusiasts alike. They’re the US subsidiary of Schneider-Kreuznach, the German optical company and makers of high-quality DSLR and large format photographic lenses, and are on a par with Carl Zeiss and Leica. Schneider-Kreuznach is also the manufacturer of the popular B+W Filter range. At the beginning of the new millennium, Schneider Optics bought Century Precision Optics, a North Hollywood based manufacturer of film and video lens accessories. The company specializes in lens converters and mount adaptors for both consumer DV cameras and broadcast lenses and so it’s not really surprising that this brand name is…
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iOS – Soctics League/HD App Review
Soccer tactics games on iOS just got a whole lot more engrossing with this compelling and addictive app. Stats Developer: Bitongo Ltd Price: $0.99 / £0.69 Version: 1.0 Released/Updated: May 31, 2012 Size: 20.7 MB Rated: 4+ Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 4/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 5/5 Re-use/re-play value: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Price: $0.99/£0.69 iPhone/Download here iPad/Download here What Is it? New from developer Bitongo, Soctics League HD is game of tactics and skill that’s based on soccer but is vaguely reminiscent of air-hockey as the football can rebound off the touch-lines and goal-lines. Continuing with the air-hockey analogy for a while, you use one or more players (up to…
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iOS/Android – G.O.D [God of Defence] App Review
Tower defence games on the iPhone (or ‘droid) just got a whole lot more fun with this sleek-looking and addictive app. It’s free too. Stats Developer: MGAME Corp Price: Free Version: 1.0 .2 Released/Updated: May 28, 2012 Size: 39.7 MB Rated: 9+ Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 4/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 4/5 Re-use/re-play value: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Download here What Is it? This app (which is also available for the ‘droid) is a simple tower-defense ‘Shoot ’em Up’ but with a bit of a sleek twist, given the name; it uses what appears to be the ‘Hand of God’ as the weapon with which to slay your opponent. This takes the…
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PadFolios v.1.5 – iOS App Review
We recently interviewed the developer, Juan Pablo Mazuera, of this incredible app, you can read that here. We were very impressed with the extent of dedication that had been put into this app and couldn’t wait to review it. Take a look at our review below, this is a great app for the working photographer… While the iPad’s built-in Photo Album looks good and is well implemented, especially on the iPad 2, it’s not the kind of app that will impress a client when pitching for a high-value commission at a formal portfolio presentation. Your work maybe fantastic but how your book looks can make all the difference. What’s needed…
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Memory Cleaner – Mac App Review
Available from the Mac App store for $5.99, Memory Cleaner is an intriguing app, from the same developer that brought us Security Camera, which promises to make us ‘work more productively by freeing wasted memory’. Read our comprehensive review below to help you decide whether this is the app you need to help your Mac run faster. We have a fair amount of RAM running on our office iMac’s that’s true. But even with 16GB on our late 2009 Core i7 iMac’s it can sometimes mean apps start crawling after a while and, by mid afternoon, we nearly always need to perform a restart just to get the apps behaving…
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Security Camera 2.0 – Mac App Review
Security Camera is a great Mac app and that certainly bears fruit in its sales, where it has reached the top spots in the Mac App Store Utilities category in many countries around the world. Not least reaching number 2 in both the US and UK App Store charts. We’re really impressed with this app, read our review below to find out why this app should be on your Mac. You’ve probably heard the story a while back now on the intertubes about how one guy, after sending his Apple MacBook Pro off for repair, saw still pictures of the repairman (should we say ‘repairperson’ now to be PC) working…
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GeoLogTag Apple iPhone App review
This review concentrates on the latest updated version 3.3 that now includes support for geotagging Samsung RAW (SRW) photos, a fix for Mac geotagging when traveling through different timezones and a fix for Mac geotagging on an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network. We put this app through its paces as the competition is heating up in the Apple app store of this style of app. Read our extensive review here… Introduction GeoLogTag is an innovative geocoding app for the iPhone (3G, G3s and iPhone 4) that allows owners of digital cameras and Macs to tag their images with location (GPS) data without the need for additional hardware. Unfortunately, Windows users can’t geotag…