Tech. Watch and Updates!

One of my favourite things to play with and learn about and have is gadgets and technology toys. Smart phones, computers, home theatre, and the latest tablets. As many of you know I am a huge fan of RIM (Blackberry) and Apple. A friend even suggested that I should be a technological advisor as I am always up to day on the techno tools… so here we go
Lets start with my favourite the Blackberry. I LOVE my Blackberry so much, I am an addict. I check Crackberry blog several times a day to check the latest news for all this Blackberry. Latest Blackberry’s are the Bold (which i have) and the much awaited and epic Blackberry Torch. The first full screen touch with a slide down full QWERTY keyboard.
However the big news from Research In Motion is the Blackberry PlayBook. It is a super high powered tablet from Blackberry. It is HOT! Comes with all you typical Blackberry stuff that we users have come to love and need. It will securely connect with you Blackberry smartphone and run and share any information that is on your Blackberry. Has a front and back facing HD cameras so you can have face to face conversation. It also offers true multi task capabilities unlike the iPad (do not worry I am not knocking the iPad it is a GREAT tool and in my world I would have and use both). Other feature include multi media such as photos, music, and video play back, and amazing internet access which is something that Blackberry has not do well up until the new Torch and the PlayBook. There is also rumours going around that this will come in various colour to choose from. Price has not yet been sent and a tentative sale date of early 2011.

Now to Apple…Steve Jobs is “Going Back to the Mac”. Apple is returning to their notebook and desktop (Mac) side of Apple. the Mac accounts for about 33% of Apple sales. iPad, iPods, iPhone, are all great tools, (as i have blogged about them in the past and as a mater of fact i just bought a new iPod classic three days ago) in the developing of making the technologies to support all those great things Apple has learned a lot. Enter the new Mac Book Air. Thinner, lighter and more powerful than the last generation Air, (let put it this way if the Mac Book Air was a super model it would make Kate Moss look FAT) and will now come in two sized 11” and 13”. From all the great Apple i’s they know how to make things last longer, battery life is 2 more hours then before, and thinner due to the solid state storage. Click on the picture below to watch a video about the new Mac Book Air

Sticking with Apple and their return to the Mac they have also update some of their software and one in particular I think is very cool. Their iLife ‘11 suite has some fantastic improvements to some of the regular iLife programs that Mac users are accustomed to.
The iPhoto’ 11 program in the suite has some pretty cool features. It has face recognition in it. So if you tag one photo of little Jimmy then the programs goes through and tags all the photos of Jimmy with some very impressive accuracy. It can also tag places both automatically (if on an iPhone or a camera the geo tags) or manual if you want to add that in to your exact location on a map within a couple of meters. It will also do the standard event organization for things that happened during the same events or time frames. You can use any of these was to view, sort, or file you photos. Some great new photo sharing over cool e mail postcard type views and facebook logging and sharing.
But that is not even my favourite part. Books and Cards are!!! If you like scrapbooking, and making your own cards you will love this.
I love scrapbooking, though I do not do it as much as I would like. Sometime it just takes forever to find everything you need then cut and glue and on and on. Then you only have one copy. Well with Books you can do that all electronically and then have the finished product sent to your home. You can get one or several copies at once. If you are worried that you are not that creative you can set some themes and guidelines and the program will work around that and you will still have the power to change and customize if there are a couple things you want to change.
Cards in much the same way allows you to create beautiful custom letterpress cards for all different themes and occasions; Wedding invites, thank you, Holiday wishes, to baby announcement can all be done with a couple of click for those who again do not feel that creative or much deeper customization for those who do.
Click on any of the products listed to find out more information or to start working withe some really cool toy! Let me know how they work for you!