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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
Here we go with this weeks GadgetGeeks recap. The gadgeteer’s help musician test the best noise cancelling headphones, and construct a robot jockey to help a horse trainer exercise their steed.
It’s a big of a big one this weighing in at a 1.02gb update.
Out now via software update but it seems it’s not without it’s problems.
Originally we were on the look our for a cable to connect our office Electric Guitar which has been hung up on the wall for far to long, to our Macs. Mistakenly we purchased the Griffin Guitar Connect Cable for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch not realising that it wouldn’t hook up to a Macbook or desktop yet it’s come in surprisingly useful thanks to Rock Prodigy
Continue reading → Griffin Guitar Connect Cable for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Guitar Hero ignited dreams for a lot of people, including myself, of being a rock god. The truth was far from it the game was a time sucker making me realise that If I spent as much time with a real guitar as I did with the game then perhaps I could actually rock out in the real world. Turns out Guitar hero does nothing to help potential axe men realise their dreams. That is until Rock Prodigy came along
Use it to learn guitar and songs faster than ever. Follow the Rock Prodigy lesson plan to take you from beginner to pro.
After installing the iPad application and connecting your guitar, step one is the issue of tuning. Not a problem with the built in tuner that supports standard tuning and other styles as you progress. Jumping into the quick start / lesson, a teacher’s voice will then start to guide you throughout the lessons. Just like Guitar Hero, you have to pluck the right note on the right string whilst keeping time.
Continue reading → Rock Prodigy for iPad / iPhone : Be a real world Guitar Hero
And now for something completely different.
A short video on how to make your very own speaker from one of the preferred, late night blogging, alcholic beverages, Red Stripe
Continue reading → Editorial : Red Stripe – Make a speaker with Yuri Suzuki
Quite why it’s taken so long for any other channel to start a program similar to channel 5’s “Gadget Show” is anyone’s guess. This week saw the launch of Gadget Geeks aiming to help consumers with gadgets and a few challenges along the way. Here’s our, admittedly late, recap of Gadget Geeks S01 E01.
Show opens up with a more subtle intro than that of it’s main competitor, less noise and perhaps gaudiness which can be a little bombarding on the Gadget Show. Here we go with a quick meet the team.
The reviewers are
Continue reading → Gadget Geeks Recap, Season 1 Episode 1 Shown on SkyHD
Well this is a new error message on us. During one of our daily FaceTime calls we got the error “FaceTime can’t initiate the call. Your computer is bust in another FaceTime call” when obviously it isn’t.
anyone out there care to shed some light?
Continue reading → FaceTime error: FaceTime can’t initiate the call.
JetPack Joyride, quite simply put is almost the most fun you can have using a single digit and with a lead character called Barry, why are you still reading this and not downloading it right now? Gameplay is beyond simple and yet utterly compelling. Barry Steakfries is propelled into the sky with his machine gun get pack in a perpetually side scrolling affair with a simple aim of getting to the end… if there is one.
Continue reading → JetPack Joyride : Theres addictive and then there’s JetPack Joyride
Apple fanatics can rejoice as there is now Cupidtino dating is an app designed to help in the quest to meet someone with similar interests, even if it is just all things Apple. Cupidtino have released an App version of their website.
Cupidtino is the first ever “Mac-inspired” dating site. It’s goal is to bring Apple fans and lovers of beautiful hardware and software design together.
What makes Cupidtino a little different to most other dating websites, rather than simply asking that hardest question of all on dating sites to “Tell us about yourself”. your profile consists of answering questions like;
Continue reading → Cupidtino App – Meet the Apple Fanboy or Fangirl of your dreams
Okay let’s get the 1st statement out of the way, when Steve Jobs was quoted to say in his autobiography he had solved all that is wrong with the Apple TV the answer is not Siri based.
Continue reading → Editorial : Siri Not for Apple TV, iPad 3 thoughts & Football Streaming
We covered the bandwidth sucking giant of streaming gaming that is OnLive a little while ago, leaving us subtly impressed with their gaming service. Now they bring OnLive Desktop to the your iPad.
This landed on the mat of the Essentialmac.co.uk the Tascam iM2 which promises to turn your iPod / iPad / Iphone into a high quality digital recorded. Think Dictaphone but for the new generation.. Here’s our first look before we dive into the review.
Continue reading → First Look : Tascam iM2 Condensor Microphone for iOS