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Tag Archives: review
Kiwi app review: Photo Tutor Modules 1 & 2
Photography has become a realistic hobby for all of us in recent years with the price of good DSLR cameras dropping every few months. Recognising the lack of a good and cheap tutorial on how to use these cameras, theDesign have created two apps to guide you through what your camera can do. Are you ready to venture away from the Auto mode of your camera? Read on if you are!
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Accessory review and hands-on video: Wowee One’s bass performance will knock your socks off
Portable speakers. Let’s face it: they’re usually a bit rubbish. Cheap and nasty with tinny sound and awful build quality, most portable speakers hobble the quality of the sound that your iPhone, iPod or iPad has stored in its vast music library. So when we heard about the the Wowee One and its ability to output incredible bass, we had to try it for ourselves. Check-out our review of the diminutive and deceptive little musical block that pumps the bass louder than you’d ever imagine.
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Kiwi app review: Ciao Baby
Ciao Baby is a Kiwi-developed app to help parents with hard-to-settle babies who have tried to use the ‘controlled-crying’ or ‘Ferber’ method (where baby is reassured at regular intervals while he or she ‘cries it out’), but who get lost with the timing. As a Dad to a seventeen-month-old baby boy I am no stranger to this problem, and depending on your take on this rather emotive subject, this could be the solution.
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App Store Essentials: LogMeIn Ignition lets you take your Mac or PC with you
If you’re not familiar with LogMeIn, you’re missing out on one of the best online tools around. Available in free or paid-subscription versions, LogMeIn lets you access your Mac or PC from any other computer in the world easily and securely. And I don’t mean just accessing your files and folders, but the whole thing – your entire desktop environment. Through the web browser of the computer you’re sat at, you can log in to your home computer and control it just as if you were at the computer itself.
Well now LogMeIn is available for both iPhone and iPad. Both versions come bundled together as one app, and at $38.99 it sounds expensive but it’s an investment that is certainly worth consideration. If you want to be able to access your computer on the move, you’ll forget about the cost after just a few minutes of use.
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Accessory Review: Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter
So after taking a look at the Apple Component Cables, when we were given the chance to take a look at the Apple VGA Cable we thought it would be a great opportunity to do a comparison of the two.
Hit the ‘read more’ to find out what we think and see a video of it in action.
Read MoreApp review: Transit Auckland
There have long been apps for public transport in Christchurch and Wellington on the App store, and I have often wondered when somebody would do one for Auckland. Well, now a new app, Transit Auckland, finally gives us Aucklanders train, bus and ferry timetables at the touch of a screen. But will it make that trip easier to organise? Read on to find out.
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App Review: VehiCal – Car Expense Management
Ever wanted to track your fuel top-ups without having all those little EFTPOS receipts hanging round? If so, VehiCal - Car Expense Management app is for you. Read on for more!
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Kiwi App review: Resene ColourMatch
If you’re looking for some inspiration to freshen up your home with a lick of paint but are lacking in the old colour-coordination department, then this new Kiwi-coded app from Resene could help. By matching colours in objects and pictures that you come across in everyday life to a colour within Resene’s extensive range, Resene ColourMatch can help you achieve the look you thought was reserved for the home and garden magazines. How? Read on.
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The iPad in New Zealand… a week later
After a week of playing with the iPad and working out what does and doesn’t work, here is our look at the iPad, what it is like to use here in New Zealand (before it’s officially available) and what we think of it.
Now you may be wondering why it has taken so long to write this, and the answer is that I wanted to have a good sit down with it and figure it all out first. Whenever you get a new toy like this you tend to spend the first few days showing it off to other people who are eager to have a go, and consequently you don’t really get to know it enough to give your verdict on it right away.
So without further ado hit the ‘read more’ link to find out more thoughts of the iPad… a week later.
Read MoreOpera Mini: The web browser made for New Zealand?
We all love Safari on our iPhones with its ability to bring the ‘real’ web to our devices, but that ‘real’ experience comes at a real cost for those of us on a lower mobile data plan who can’t justify spending any more. As websites become more heavily loaded with photos and graphics they chip away at our mobile data dollar ever faster. So what is the solution? Well, one solution could be Opera Mini which was added to the App Store just today. Here we’ll take a look at the key differences between it and Safari and find out whether the savings add up.
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