Category: Gadgets

iPhone 5 Review: Day 2 First Impressions

There’s an iphone 5 in my family (actually two). This meant that I got some demo time with it yesterday asI helped my family set them up. If I were to sum up the iphone 5 in one word, I would say “Zippy”. The 4G and improved processor make the iphone 5 incredibly fast compared to past models. Web pages load in seconds, and...

iOS 6 is…boooring!

I’d like to say that iOS 6 is revolutionary, but unless you have an iphone 4S, new ipad or ipod touch, or iphone 5, it’s not. For the iphone 4, it seems to have lost more than it gained.  Some nice new features include the updated stores, and Do Not Disturb which handily controls your calls, sound and privacy. Speaking of privacy, there is now...

Retina Macbook Pro- The First Days

I’ve had my retina macbook pro for about three days, and though I’ve reviewed it before, I do have a few comments to make, along with the more in-depth stuff later on. This computer does the following really well! It is REALLY fast. I never knew my wifi was fast until I got my new Macbook Pro. I downloaded gigabytes of apps and installed...

iStopmotion 3 Review

Animation is cool, but it requires a bunch of fancy expensive softwares and equipment to produce anything good. This stereotype used to be true, but istopmotion 3, released this week from Boinx has set out to change that… and it has. In the past, Boinx has offered a non-HD, non-Professional version of their istopmotion software for $50, and the real mccoy HD pro version...

Canon Powershot Sx260 HS Review

With so many compact digital cameras on the market boasting similar specs, it’s really hard to find the right one, but I can tell you that you can’t go wrong with the Canon Powershot SX260 HS. For $300 you get a great camera. It has its’ weaknesses, but none overshadow the strengths such as various cool modes and excellent image and video quality. Image...