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Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.

If you haven’t ventured past the break to investigate one of these deal roundups in the past, today is the day you might want to do so. Beyond the jump lies arguably the best group of links that we’ve posted to date. How good? Well, the Canon 5D Mark II, a 27-inch Dell display, a 1TB Western Digital portable hard drive and a handsome discount on Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 all visit the list. Interested? Take a look quickly before deciding to part with your funds, because these offers are likely to be gone in a jiffy.

Continue reading Slickdeals’ best in tech for November 14th: Canon 5D Mark II, 27-inch Dell display and 1TB portable HDD

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Slickdeals’ best in tech for November 14th: Canon 5D Mark II, 27-inch Dell display and 1TB portable HDD originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re yearning for a little more manual control out of your iPhone‘s camera, Tap Tap Tap’s Camera+ app is about the best it gets. While it isn’t fully manual, the app does offer a lot of controls for you to play around with, and it just got a huge update today that includes a slew of new features like live exposure and a front flash.

Tap Tap Tap claims to have “made the impossible possible” by introducing a front-facing flash for the front-facing camera on the iPhone. It simply flashes the iPhone’s screen to white for a split second to act as a makeshift flash. It’s actually not the first time this has been done, as Apple‘s Photo Booth app for OS X includes the same trick, but it’s nice that Camera+ is doing what Apple is ignoring.

The Camera+ update also includes Live Exposure, which provides you with “all the details of your shot” before you take it. The app will show you the exposure parameters like ISO and shutter speed changing in real-time as you setup your shot. With the iPhone 5, you can also now enjoy “100% accurate shot framing.” With Live Exposure enabled, there’s no viewfinder cropping, so what you see on the screen is what you’ll get.

Other cool features include a horizontal level, so that you can ensure your photos are straight before you snap them. The app also got numerous general performance enhancements as well as some of the usual bug fixes. Tap Tap Tap says that “anything that didn’t feel 100% perfect was given a good overhaul.”

Camera+ is on sale now for $0.99, and the update is available now in the iTunes App Store.

Camera+ updates with live exposure, front flash, and more is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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There were no heckles, boos or crickets for Samsung’s reps back at IFA. But it’s fair to say that the atmosphere following its unveiling of the Galaxy Camera was as muted as it was polite. It didn’t help that most journalists in that meeting room were there primarily to see the Galaxy Note II, which was undoubtedly the show’s headline act. It was also worrisome that Nikon had recently released a half-hearted Android camera of its own — the Coolpix S800c running on lowly Gingerbread. And finally, some folks in the room — ourselves included — may have been put off by Samsung’s talk of “convergence,” in reference to the fact that the Galaxy Camera has a micro-SIM slot for HSPA+ cellular data. After all, the whole notion of converged hardware has lost the sheen it once had. Hybridized, perhaps. Modular, maybe. But please, not a camera-phablet.

Here’s the thing, though: the Galaxy Camera is not a converged device. It’s a camera, plain and simple. It just happens to be one that’s hooked up (in a multitude of ways) to the glorious world of Android. More specifically, we’re looking at full-throttle Jelly Bean sitting astride the same optically stabilized 21x zoom lens and almost half-inch 16-megapixel sensor that have already been deployed in Samsung’s WB850F WiFi camera. These are components which far exceed anything you’d find in even the most image-conscious smartphone. If you want to put a label on it, it’s probably more meaningful to describe all this as software convergence. The same OS and cloud-connected apps that have so radically transformed phones, tablets and TVs are now also being deployed in a camera — and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be just as invigorating in this new role. At the very least, don’t dismiss this device as a curiosity until you’ve read our take on it.

Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Camera review: a 21x compact shooter brought to life by Android

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Samsung Galaxy Camera review: a 21x compact shooter brought to life by Android originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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GoPro left its Android-using audience hanging (from a paraglider) when it posted an iOS app for remote controlling its cameras, but the group won’t have been in suspense for long. The action video camera maker has posted a Google-native version that covers roughly the same feature spread as its Apple-oriented counterpart, including remote control, video previewing and daily highlight clips. Any aspiring movie makers will have to fit a narrow set of criteria to start shooting, however — on top of an HD Hero 2 and a WiFi BacPac, Android 4.0 is a minimum requirement to start shooting without hiccups. Hero 3 support won’t be coming until later this month. Despite the limitations, it’s nice to know that we won’t need an elaborate Google Glass setup to record our next skydive in a Mountain View-approved fashion.

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GoPro app reaches Android, captures reckless Nexus adventures originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Triggertrap’s automatic shutter release kit has come a long way since its humble Kickstarter debut, and today, yet another feature is being added to its iOS and Android apps — wireless mode. The good news is that you can now control all of those advanced trigger settings from a phone or tablet over WiFi, but the bad news is, you’ll need two of them. One remains bound to the camera by cable and dongle, acting as a slave device that carries out orders given from a second, master device. You don’t actually need a real WiFi network to make use of the new feature, though, as connecting the slave to a wireless hotspot running on the master will work the same. If you happen to have all the necessary gear and some ideas for testing it out, the Triggertrap Mobile updates are available now at the relevant app stores.

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Triggertrap Mobile update adds WiFi control for device-laden shutterbugs originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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