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CES 2012 highlights The world’s greatest tech show – CES 2012 – kicked off on Monday 9 January (if you’re a show obsessive, note that’s a week later than usual). Running until Thursday, the show sees the entire tech world descend on Las Vegas. It covers more than 1.8 million square feet and has more than 140,000 attendees from across the globe.
Netflix? What Netflix ? Says Sky as it announces a partnership with Zeebox that it hopes will see Sky customers getting social as they watch TV using the Sky mobile apps. Sky is set to be the only TV platform in the UK to offer Zeebox integration in its bespoke mobile apps (including Sky+ and Sky Go ), with the new ‘augmented’ features set to hit Sky’s apps during the first half of this year
HPR-Solutions Longtime Exposure Calculator Longtime Exposure Calculator Price: Free/ Available for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad Long-exposure photography fanatics will know that an ND filter can be essential when it comes to extending exposure time for those all-important open shutter shots. Longtime Exposure Calculator by HPR-Solutions is a free iPhone , iPad and iPod touch app that enables you to dial in a projected shutter speed to one column and then ‘add’ an ND filter as graded in both f/stops and filter names (eg 3 stop or ND8) in the other column. The app then calculates the adjusted exposure. While it is, in part, possible to TTL meter with an ND filter attached to the front of a camera’s lens, the results won’t always be accurate, and there’s a point where things get so dark that it’s not possible – especially with in-vogue super-dense filters
Best apps for docked iPads and iPhones As wonderful as they are to use, iOS devices need pretty regular care and feeding to stay in tip-top operation. Despite Apple’s advances in battery life and reductions in power consumption, the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad all need electricity to work.