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Dozens of the Best Android, iPhone, and Mac Apps
Lifehacker is currently running a great series called “Lifehacker Packs,” wherein they round up all their favorite applications for the iOS, Android, and Mac platforms (no Windows love yet). Many of...
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What Features Do You Want to See in a Tablet?
Soon, the iPad won’t be the only tablet on the block. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab was first out of the gate, but a bevy of other Android-powered tablets have also been announced. And while this first wave of...
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Android vs iOS - Which Mobile OS Will Help Filmmakers?
Apple has released iOS 4.2, which comes with a slew of improvements for iOS devices. However, iOS isn’t the only kid on the block, with reports that Samsung’s Android-powered iPad competitor shipped...
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Google Punts on Independent Media Distribution with Movie Marketplace and...
Back in November I criticized Google’s Android operating system for lacking an iTunes-esque media marketplace. Android’s openness seemed a good match for independent content creators, except it lacked...
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Netflix Now Available on (Some) Android Phones
While Netflix has been available on iOS since last year, it’s been conspicuously absent on the arguably most popular smartphone OS, Android. By finally releasing an Android application late last week,...
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Adobe Brings Creative Suite to Tablets with Six New Touch Apps
At the same MAX conference where they announced Creative Cloud, Adobe also demonstrated not one but six new touch apps for tablet interfaces. These $9.99 programs, along with a $60/year Carousel photo...
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Android 4.0 Adds New Video Features, and Part of 'The Avengers' Was [Update:...
If Google and Apple were politicians — and if this blog were actually a legitimate news site — I’d have to give each of them equal time. So, since I mentioned the improved video and photo capabilities...
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What Will the TV of the Future Look Like? Updates for Google TV and Rumors...
When I originally wrote, “Google TV is what independent filmmakers have been waiting for,” in retrospect I forgot the “is” at the beginning of the sentence and the question mark at the end. So far the...
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Vimeo Announces Updated iOS App with Editor, Works Natively on iPad (And...
Vimeo has always been a huge supporter of artists, musicians, filmmakers – anyone in the arts. They’ve fostered a community that lets artists be who they want to be, and post their work without...
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Insteon’s New LED Bulb is Dimmable and Wirelessly Controllable. But is it a...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about The Kick camera light and what it’s features could mean for the future of studio lighting, one of which was the possibility of controlling the attributes of multiple...
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Aurasma: A Great Self-Promotion Tool and a Way to Get Your Film into...
Augmented Reality has been slowly making its way into our lives, mostly in the form of demo videos, games, and Google’s forthcoming Glass project. But Aurasma is a cool little app that puts the tools...
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5 Handy Mobile Apps to Help Make Your Filmmaking Endeavors More Productive
This is a guest post by Whitney Adams. There are literally thousands of apps on the iOS and Android platforms, and plenty of them are actually useful for filmmakers. Having some of these apps is like...
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Diagram, Shotlist, and 'Pocket-Block' Your Scene with the Shot Designer App
Thanks to Hollywood Camera Work’s new app Shot Designer, you can now design and block camera coverage of your scene almost as fast as you can think it — even on your mobile device. An intuitive...
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Join 70,000+ Members on the Digital Creative Community Stage 32
There are many great ways to connect to other filmmakers today. We have sites like Production Hub, Mandy.com, and even Craigslist that are fantastic for crewing up and getting on crews. However, when...
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Shoot a Film on Your iPhone, Control Canon DSLRs with an Android Tablet...
There’s no doubt that modern mobile technology has the capacity to streamline or benefit many aspects of filmmaking. Whether it’s the micro-video art emerging in social media, script supervision...
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'Video Instagram' Crusade Rages On: Viddy Goes Android, Lumify Asks 'Why do...
Where is the supposed ‘Instagram of Video?’ Is it even possible for a motion-based media/social service to be as lightweight, sharable, and just plain easy as Instagram makes stills? The jury is still...
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Google Shaking Up Video Recording/Sharing on Apple's iOS with the New...
I wasn’t really expecting to have to refer to the theoretical ‘Instagram of Video’ for another while — major choices for mobile users are already in place and ‘in the running’ for such a title, and it...
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YouTube is on Your Actual Tube, and Your Android Device is the Controller
YouTube is doing a lot to make itself a media service platform that rivals the traditional television you’re used to. Original channels are getting a major push, creators are being given some big perks...
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Meanwhile, RCA Brings Actual Television to Tablets Free of Charge (No WiFi...
Yesterday, Google announced that YouTube was coming to your real tube in a big new way, by way of your Android device and WiFi. Today, RCA has reported something similar, but the opposite — sort of —...
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New Lomography Kickstarter Makes Your Smartphone a Mobile Film Scanner
Though I understand where these things come from, calling something like Lomography “the analog Instagram” is like calling Kodak’s new Super 8 stock “the chemical MiniDV,” or even better, “the new...
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