Your Digital Life

We don’t typically cover digital cameras here but seeing as this particular camera can actually create a story as it shoots, we thought we’d make an exception. We’re referring to a groundbreaking new camera that decides itself when to take a shot. Developed by British motion capture company OMG Plc, the Autographer  uses five built-in [...]

If you’re sitting on some longer-length videos you’d like to post online, SmugMug has just announced that they’ve raised their video caps – you can now upload a high definition video up to 3GB in size and up to 20 minutes in length. The more generous video storage is available to Power ($60/yr) and Pro [...]

It’s easy to capture hours of video, but it can be a bit difficult and time-consuming to edit your footage down into coherent clips. A new service called Magisto aims to change that. It will automatically edit up to 600MB or 16 individual clips totally 600MB into a single video. Best of all – it’s [...]

Before the Flip and YouTube made video recording a national pastime, parents would have to lug out the shoulder-fired canon of a camcorder to capture precious moving memories. That meant tapes – and lots of them – stored in closets, attics and basements.  Unlike our shoeboxes full of photos, a box full of camcorder tape [...]

While we wouldn’t normally review an iPod docking station for Your-Digital-Life, the new Altec Lansing OCTIV 650 goes way beyond the typical dock speaker systems you may be used to seeing. For one, the OCTIV 650 is designed to easily become a part of any room’s décor, with very discreet lines, slightly curved, flat front [...]

It’s getting down to the wire, but there’s still time to do something nice for the old man for Father’s Day. One simple option is to make him a video for Father’s Day – a multimedia collection of still photos and videos combined into a single movie, complete with captions and a soundtrack. This movie [...]

YouTube announced on their blog yesterday that they’d be making some changes to how it displays videos. Specifically, whenever you upload a video that has a resolution of 480p or higher, the preview image will appear in high definition. This means that if someone wishes to embed that video – the preview is nice and [...]

Pico projectors are a cool way to show off your photos and videos – simply connect a camera or camcorder, point the projector at some blank wall and you’ve got a digital slideshow. The latest entry into the Pico playground is Vivitek with its Qumi. It offers a USB port, mini HDMI or a microSD [...]

It’s very easy to take video on your iPhone, iPod Touch and (kind of) your iPad, but not so easy to edit it. That’s where Viddy comes in. Viddy is a new iPhone app that lets you take iPhone video and create a bona-fide movie out of it. (It works with iPod Touches and iPads, [...]

Three weeks ago, Cisco announced it was killing off the popular Flip camcorder and with it, the online video-sharing and storage service FlipShare. Cisco has since provided a few more details as to the fate of the online sharing service – it will remain live until December 2013. Obviously if you’re a Flip camcorder owner [...]