It is unusual when marketing hype matches reality; more so when “full HD” is the primary selling point. After spending ten days evaluating Panasonic’s recently released HDC-TM700, I’ve had a change of heart — due in part to one new and one improved selling point. The 3MOS 1/4-inch cam is a half step faster than [...]
I wish the adage “the best camera is the one you have with you” also applied to tripods. Unfortunately, tripods are often essential, and seldom convenient. They are too big, long and heavy to fit in a camera bag or backpack. The market has yet to respond with a small, stable and easily transportable [...]
Internet access is becoming essential in today’s world, particularly if you travel with your laptop. Accessing email, web pages, or uploading images or video to sharing sites depends on an available wi-fi hotspot or network. Some networks may exist nearby, but their signals may too weak to be identified and accessed by your built in [...]
If you regularly print CD/DVDs on a tray-based inkjet printer, you know the whole process is a little wonky – – which literally means crooked, off-center and askew. At best, these printers require patience and a couple of resets to print a disc. But as the only low cost print game in town, they were [...]
The Pocket View RAID unit is a solidly built triple interface two drive RAID enclosure from an ostensibly new kid on the block, iStoragePro. The unit ships with enclosure, and two hot swappable 2.5-inch drive carriers populated with 7200 rpm SATA Seagate drives. The unit has two bus powered FW800 ports and single connections [...]