For years, Lesa Snider has been an ace photographer, a Photoshop black belt, a prolific writer and columnist, a lecturer and anything else that she could find to do with photography. (How many years? I’m not stupid and Mrs. Petrie didn’t raise no fool!) So,...
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Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Bring The Phun Back To B&W
Monochromatic. “adjective; containing or using only one color: monochromatic light.” Before the technology was available, all film and photography was rendered in black and white. In film, it saw its heyday in film noir. As for photography, you need know but one name...
Freshly Squeezed Op-Ed: The 2,147th Music Review
Over the past several months we have been buried under an avalanche of reviews of both Watch and Music. Personally, I’m not a fan of wearing bling but I’m debating purchasing an Watch. I’d like to have it primarily for tracking my exercising. I’m wheelchair-bound...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Back to Basics
“… and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton …” to quote a lyric from one of my favorite XTC songs. But no, I’m the true Mayor of Simpleton. That’s why I’m drawn to apps like the one I’m going to look at today. I’ve been writing software and hardware reviews, plus the...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Play Ball!
Aaaah. Finally, it's spring! And this young man's thoughts of fancy have turned to one thing and one thing alone. Baseball! And I have to have my beloved game at my beckon call. Of course, there is an app for that. But this year they have upped their game… If you're...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Memories Digitized
Product: Elgato Video Capture Developer: Elgato Systems Price: $99.95 Requirements: OS X 10.6.8 or later Test Rig: Test Rig: 2012 MBA 11", OS X 10.10.3, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD I've moved several times in the last two years. What a pain. Particularly as I'm a media...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Calibre, Your Personal Library of Congress
When I was a homeowner, I fashioned an office out of one corner of the rec room. On one wall, I placed three floor-to-ceiling bookcases and crammed them with books. Naturally I hadn't read all of them. But I made it through about a good quarter of them. And I'm...
Freshly Squeezed OpEd: Wait A Tick! I'm My Father's Mac!
When I first started using computers, it was a lot like my early forays into dating. I was always in the dark and there was a lot of fumbling about. But then I was introduced to the Mac. The computer for the rest of us. Or, put another way, not your father's computer...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: iPad Video Cutting Board
Product: ProcutX for iPad Author: Pixel Film Studios Requirements: Final Cut Pro X; OSX 10.7 or 10.8 Price: $0.99 Test Rig: iPad Mini w/ RD, Wi-Fi, 32GB Some years ago, I earned my degree in video production. This should've been enough to land me a...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: High Fidelity, Digitally Speaking
Product: Fidelia Developer: Audiofile Engineering, LLC Cost: US$19.99 Requirements: MAC OS X 10.7+ Test Rig: 2012 MBA 13", OS X 10.9.2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD In a previous lifestyle, I was a composer and musician. One of my favorite parts of the creative process...
Freshly Squeezed Reviews: What's Your Desktop's Flavour?
Years ago, BeOS (if memory serves) allowed you to alter the entire theme of your desktop. This could be anything from the colors of buttons, the corner shapes of your windows, to having everything on your desktop have a brushed aluminum appearance on your Menu and...
Freshly Squeezed Review: Voila – Now You See It, Now You Do
Product: Voila v3.4 Developer: Global Delight Requirements: Mac OS X Lion, 10.5.8 or later Test Rig: 2012 MacBook Air, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, 2 GHz IntelCore i7, Mavericks 10.9.1 ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ A cliché and for good reason. Because it's true. With...
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