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There any number of reasons you might want to record what you can hear from your Mac’s speakers, grab that radio show, record that Skype conversation or capture audio for a screen cast. The sublime interface adds makes it a joy to use.
Continue reading → Piezo The Refreshingly Elegant and Feature Packed Sound Recording App
Well everybody its now official, invites have been handed out by Apple (where’s ours eh) for the a launch even on the 7th March. Quite what’s going to be announced is anyone’s guess and I’m sure you’ve all seen the news and speculation on what it could be.
Continue reading → Apple confirms iPad 3 launch event for March 7
It was purely by chance that whilst sipping on some brain juice in an attempt to get the grey matter firing I noticed a rather unique case that stuck out in the crowd of iPhones around me. Turns out I had stumbled onto a range of new wooden iPhone case from mumu* called the “Slide Case” which are coming soon and it looks like it’s going to be something rather special.
Continue reading → mumu Slide Case For iPhone 4 and 4s World Exclusive First Look.
The Colcoa iPhone and iPad sleeves look so good and with a design that nestles your phone so snuggly that you wish it came in a human style for you to wear. You might have guessed but I’m more than taken back with the Unitah iPhone sleeve. The Colcoa sack range of cases are natural protective sleeves that protect with style.
Continue reading → ColcaSac Unitah iPhone 4 / 4s Sleeve Reviewed
Point and case made…
Quite often the simplest of graphics say it all.
At the end of a long day there’s nothing more than I like to do that kickback, relax and switch the brain off by watching the idiot latern (TV). With more repeats on TV than ever I find myself looking to the internet more and more to keep myself entertained without burning a hole in my pocket with iTunes series links. Reality TV has never been my thing but Justin.TV / Twitch.TV takes this to a new level with games casting alongside chat interaction with the caster.
Continue reading → Justin.Tv HD reviewed : High Def Streams But Missing The Small Details.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you will be more than aware that mountain lion is set for release this summer And we’ve scoured the Internet to find you information of some of the lesser publicised changes in Mountain Lion.
Continue reading → OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Preview : More Features and UI Changes Revealed
Rumours have been abound for weeks that a new version of the ever popular Video Lan Client or VLC was due significant upgrade for the Mac and here it is, ready for download in all its 64-bit goodness.
Alongside being a 64-bit binary this is a major update featuring a completely redesigned user interface, full-screen support Lion and experimental support for Blu Ray discs.
Continue reading → Video Lan Client 2.0 is out. Sports new look and features
During the office clearout, i.e listing things on eBay, we needed a way to ensure we had the right information for listings. The internet doesn’t always make things clear and so when we stubmled upon Mactracker we had to mention it here.
Continue reading → Mactracker : A very handy detailed Mac / Apple History App
Whilst reviewing the Tascam iM2 condenser microphone for Apple devices we came across its accompany application nestled away in the App store the Tascam Pcm Recorder which we thought would be a godsend for all our recording needs whilst out in the field. (Full tascam review has now been posted.
Continue reading → Tascam PCM Recorder App : Not exactly a “sound” app
The team create a chip fat powered restaurant and help a film lover put several surround sound systems through their paces. In this week’s product test only 3 sets of speakers areon test which is understandable given the complexity of having to set these things up pack them away, set them up again etc etc.
An interesting side note is a surround sound experts – expert is brought in to help configure the systems for this test.
Our favorite service letting to allow the watching of USA based TV websites in the UK, such Hulu, Fox, NBC and more, has undergone a bit of an update. UnoTelly has re branded itself as more of a DNS service rather than a television watching portal.
The camera in the iPhone range has is best described as adequate at best. Even with statistics pointing to the fact it’s the most used camera phone out there (Flickr for example) pictures taken with the iPhone often need a little bit of a helping hand to look their best. Enter HDRtist a Mac application designed to take the hard work out of getting the best from your photos.
Continue reading → Ohanaware HDRTist Review. Simple and Easy HDR for everyone.
The race for smart TV gets more interesting, even before the release of Apple TV. Nuance, the makers of dragon dictate products and LG have announced a speech controlled TV set to be released in early May.
Essentialmac was there at the Nuance Wednesday press event hosted in London to get some idea of what Nuance have been up to the in the world of speech recognition and where they are heading. One of the most exciting announcements came in the form ofDragon TV.
Continue reading → Dragon TV Speech Controlled TV Coming In May Before Apple’s iTV