The Padcaster Mini - For iPad Mini Users Who Are Serious About Videography

In one of Apple's latest TV commercials, you might have noticed a shot of someone using a very accessorized iPad to shoot video of a waterfall. Well, that iPad is able to accommodate all that gear thanks to its Padcaster rig. Now, a smaller version of the device, known as the Padcaster Mini, has been designed for use with the iPad mini.

Like the original Padcaster, the Mini features an aluminum frame and a flexible insert that cradles the iPad, absorbing vibrations and keeping it snugly in place.

Incorporated into the frame are multiple 1/4-20 and 3/8-16 threaded holes. When combined with included cold shoe adapters, these can be used for mounting third-party accessories such as lights and shotgun mics. Additionally, a hole in the bottom lets the rig be mounted on a tripod.

The device also features a removable lens mount bracket, which allows users to position their own wide or telephoto lens over the iPad's existing lens.

According to its inventor, New York-based film-maker Josh Apter, the Padcaster Mini could also be used for applications such as a mounting frame for a DSLR, a portable lighting bracket, or (with an iPad mini inside) a teleprompter.

He is currently raising production funds for the device, on Kickstarter. A pledge of US$99 will get you one, when and if they're ready to go. More information is available in the pitch video below.

If you're interested in the concept, you might also want to check out the iPad mini model of the similar Makayama Movie Mount.

Sources: Padcaster, Kickstarter

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Rumor About Samsung Galaxy S5's Spec

Along with the iPhone 6, the rumor mill is also churning out rumors about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S5 flagship phone. After “disappointing” people with the evolutionary Galaxy S4 update, Samsung is reportedly working on a huge spec bump for the Galaxy S5.

According to Eldar Murtazin, a person known to occasionally have inside info about mobile companies, the S5 will come with a 5.24 inch Super AMOLED screen, that will sport a resolution of 2560 x 1440 at an amazing pixel density of 560 ppi. The device will have an Exynos 6 or Snapdragon 805 processor depending on the market, and a 3GB RAM, with 32/64GB storage options.

While the iPhone 6’s camera is rumored to come with the same 8-megapixel count like iPhone 5s with improvements, Samsung is putting a 16MP rear-camera in the S5, up from the current 13MP camera in the Galaxy S4. According to Murtazin, the device will come with a 3200 mAh battery (the iPhone 5s has a 1560 mAh battery).

Samsung is known to pack some impressive specs in its devices, and if Murtazin’s claims are correct, the S5 looks like a complete beast, but there’s still the question of whether the S5 will come with a plastic or metal casing.

The Galaxy S5 may be launched at Samsung’s “Unpacked 5” media eventon February 24 in Barcelona.

With iPhone 6 rumored to finally come in bigger sizes, possibly with higher resolutions, what do you think of the Galaxy S5’s alleged specs? Let us know in the comments below.

[via Android Beat]

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Download EverythingMe For Android Now

The most enjoyable aspect of using an Android, at least for me personally, is the fact that the entire experience and be flipped on its head by simply downloading and installing a new launcher. EverythingMe is one such home screen alternative, and although it has been in beta for quite a while – an entire year, even – the launcher has now been rolled out as an official, complete package. On first inspection, it has definitely been worth the wait, and if the idea of an intuitive, search-centric launcher appeals to you, then be sure to catch the details after the break.

Apart from checking up on email and other such correspondence, one of the first things we always do when picking up a smartphone, tablet, or logging into our desktops, is to perform a search. Whether it be Web-based or one of those tedious quests to find a lost file / folder among the local disorganization, we’re forever searching for stuff in this modern Digital Age.

Recognizing this, the creators of EverythingMe have tried to create something that facilitates our incessant need to find things in a swift, efficient manner. But while everything was staunchly search-based in the beta, the developers have now added a degree of context to proceedings, meaning certain functions will adapt depending on where you are, what time of day it is, what’s coming up in your schedule, and so on.

Its smart system tries, and often succeeds, to adapt to your daily life, acting accordingly upon what it has managed to surmise from the info you feed your device every day.

For example, if you wake up and regularly check the news, EverythingMe will learn to show you the latest headlines ready for that time in the morning. If you spend a lot of the day shopping online, perhaps the launcher will prepare you by throwing up the Amazon app on your daily panel. And if you love nothing more than to sit down in the evening with a good book – or at least, a digital book – then EverythingMe will pick up on this and adjust its interface so you don’t have to go looking for the relevant apps.

As well as the context-centric theme, the launcher also includes Smart Folders, which present contextual info in a beautiful, card-like interface. As you can see from the screenshots, depending on the category of said Smart Folder, EverythingMe will throw up all kinds of information on these cards, and everything happens in an automated fashion.

For example, your news folder will aggregate the top news channels trying to curate a list of the stories you want to read. Up to a maximum of five, you can then effortlessly slide through the cards via gestures, quickly catching up on the headlines without having to manually find your favored apps and scan through stories to find the ones you wish to read.

There’s plenty more to enjoy besides with this very thorough launcher, as you can see from the video below:

EverythingMe is available for free, and we’ve embedded the direct link for you below. If you’re looking for a way to make your device better work for you, you’re unlikely to find a more refined experience than this, and after more than a year in beta, the amount of work that has been put into its preparation is very obvious from the point of installation.

(Download: EverythingMe for Android on the Play Store)

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See How Much Time You've Wasted On Facebook

Facebook will celebrate its 10th birthday next week. Created in a dorm room by Mark Zuckerberg and a few friends, TheFacebook.com came to life on Feb. 4, 2004. In its decade of existence, the social network has attracted 1.1 billion users, and all their pokes, wall posts, baby photos and engagement announcements add up to a whole lot of time. Use TIME’s calculator to see just how many days of your life have been lost to this ten-year-old.

Methodology

Facebook doesn’t publicize data on exactly how often a user logs in, though you can bet that they’ve got that information. In lieu of that measurement, this app runs through the timestamps on every post in your feed until it reaches the earliest one, which it uses as the estimated date that you created your profile. Users who are extraordinarily active on the site may get an estimate that is considerably later than the actual date that they joined.

SHARE IT TO YOUR FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK 

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List Of Jailbreak Tweaks That Are Installed On Saurik's iPhone

Jay Freeman aka saurik, the founder of Cydia has shared the list jailbreak tweaks installed on his iPhone after a user requested for it on reddit.

So if you’re curious to know what’s on his jailbroken iPhone then here’s the list of 37 jailbreak apps and tweaks:

• Cydget(PhotoExample, CyDialer)
• Cyntact
• Cyueue
• Veency
• FiveIconDock
• WinterBoard(None)
• RingerXVIP
• VoicemailForwarder
• SafariDownloadManager
• Barrel(Roll-Away)
• Activator(VolumeHUDTap=iWhiteboard
• VolumeBothUp/Down=SpringFlash
• StatusSwipe=SBSettings(SeriousSBSettingsHD))
• Bars
• CallBar
• DietBar
• DietBulletin
• f.lux
• FlashyStatus
• FolderCloser
• GlyphPatch
• Graviboard
• HarlemShake
• LowPowerBanner
• MarkThatMessage
• NoCoverFlow
• NoNewsIsGoodNews
• OpenNotifier(Messages)
• PasswordPilotPro
• SleeptoLock
• SwitcherMod
• Tab+
• TetherStatus
• TypeStatus
• TypingPrivacy
• YourTube
• 3GUnrestrictor

You will quickly realize that saurik hasn’t upgraded to iOS 7. One of the primary reasons why he hasn’t upgraded to iOS 7 is because of the changes Apple has made to Safari:

I am not certain what to do about iOS 7. Apple ruined the web browser by adding the “scroll up for navbar” feature: it is horribly distracting and entirely useless. I could just remove it, but they also bring up a solid bar now with the back button… :(. On iOS 6 they simply nailed it: the HUD was entirely gone except for a few transparent buttons that were always present; I seriously now do most of my browsing on my iPhone (I’m typing this response on my iPhone, in fact), but I simply can’t use iOS 7 Safari. When I have time I might try to do some major surgery to “fix it”, but until then I am on iOS 6. (That said, I also rely on a ton of these extensions, and only very recently have some of them been ported. iOS 7 also screwed up the address book, and they use colors everywhere like red… red means “this is dangerous or is an error”, not “edit my alarm”. I’m just distraught.)

via: iphonehack

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Make Your iDevice Run Faster

Running out of space in your iOS device? Try deleting some of the unused apps. But then we might need it later on, so that may not work for everyone. Hey, what about recovering some storage capacity by removing the space-hogging files? And you can do that easily with PhoneClean.

iMobie PhoneClean is a desktop tool which cleans up your iOS device to release some extra space back for use. It deletes files such as temporary files, cookies, script files, media files that failed to sync properly, and cached and offline files. PhoneClean is available for both Windows and Mac.

Recommended Reading: 15 (More) iPhone Tips & Tricks You Probably Don’t Know

Clean IPhone, IPad, IPod Touch

PhoneClean is available for download here. Before starting to clean your iOS devices with PhoneClean, it is advisable for you to do an iTunes backup first. In case something goes wrong, you still have your iTunes backup to restore it to your device.

By connecting your device with PhoneClean it will show you the details of your device. PhoneClean allows you to choose which type of files that you want to scan (and subsequently delete) from the iOS device. There are four types of file:

• Temp and Junk files
• Cache and Off-line files
• Cookie and Script files
• Sync-failed Media files

As you can see for this review, our sample device has 19.19GB free space and 10.34GB used space. Let’s see how much free space we can recover after scanning.

Scanning can take up to a few minutes depending on your device capacity.

By clicking on the ‘arrow’ icon under Detail, a list of apps will be shown, along with the number of files it has and the sizes. Uncheck the apps that you do not want deleted. Go back and click on Clean upwhen you are done.

After it finishes cleaning it will display the amount of space that has been recovered.

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Jony Ive and Marc Newson Detail Upcoming (RED) Auction in Teaser Video

The auction house, Sotheby’s, recently released a short teaser of its upcoming (RED) charity auction with curators Jony Ive and Marc Newson describing how they selected and, in some cases, created the pieces up for bid. The (RED) auction is said to feature several products ranging from a surfboard to a red anodized Mac Pro that showcase what Ive and Newson believe to be some of the best examples of modern design. Ive explained the following:

The criteria that we both had was we both wanted to own each one really badly.

As pointed out in the video, many of the pieces have been “tinkered with” to add a bit of (RED) flair, while other ones such as the aluminum Leica M digital rangefinder camera were designed from the ground up. Ive previously mentioned that he expects the camera to potentially fetch up to $6 million on the block.

For those who can afford the hefty prices, the auction gives people a chance to own works made in collaboration between two of this century’s most important designers. Bono will be putting on the auction as part of his (RED) fund, which is good for its partnership with major retailers such as Apple. 

Those of you interested in watching the video can do so below:

 

The charity event which is being called “Jony and Marc’s (RED) Auction,” will be taking place this upcoming Monday with benefits going to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. 

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Panoramic, 360-degree photographs

Panoramic, 360-degree photographs can be tedious and difficult to capture, despite projects such as Google’s own Photo Spheres and the upcoming BubblePod. Aerial snaps are even tougher to achieve, but the Panono – launching today as a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo – could make both forms of photography accessible to the masses.

Roughly the size of a baseball, the Panono is a throwable, spherical device with 36 tiny, outward-facing cameras. When you throw it into the air, the Panono is able to judge the highest point and then capture a huge, 360-degree by 360-degree, 72-megapixel image.

It’s almost impossible to produce these images any other way, unless you’re happy throwing around your smartphone, tablet or DSLR. The birds-eye perspective is perfect for busy locations, such as a party, music festival or convention, taking in absolutely everyone and everything that was happening at the time. The images are then previewed using the Panono apps for iOS and Android, before being stitched and archived for sharing on the Web.

The Panono’s creator, Jonas Pfeil, demoed a similar product on YouTube in October 2011. The video accrued over 3 million hits, but the device was simply too expensive to take to market.

Now, the team is pitching the cheaper Panono ball camera on Indiegogo. The campaign needs $900,000 to make the device a reality; backers will need to pledge a minimum of $549 to reserve a unit, although there’s also an early bird price of $499 for the first 600.

via: TNW

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How To Install Khmer Without Jailbreaking On Your iOS 7 Device

Installing Khmer Unicode is very straightforward on iOS 7 this time. Even though we can install Khmer on our iDevice doesn't mean it will be fully functioned so we need to be patient to let our hard-working Khmer developer to make it better and better.

Things you need to do are :

1. Open Safari Browser on your iOS 7 Device and click on one of your preferred font style

Go To This Link

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g9u41v35qpi0pqi/JdlR7EUWdH

Chose whatever font you preferred

Then Download and Install it





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