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CES 2012 Aftermath

I took a lot of the BCCHardware Crew to CES 2012 this January and we put in some long hours and got a lot of work done.  Check out our coverage over at BCCHardware.com – if you want to pick and choose, check out the list below. CES roadLAN 2012  CES Kickoff Samsung 2012 Press [...]

HDR – Video? Yes Indeed.

Online galleries are fully of over saturated HDR pictures that consists more of exposure blending that actual “High Dynamic Range” processing.  Still, the effect is pretty interesting and if done properly – doesn’t look horrible and can enhance a photo.  The downside is that many people overuse HDR and saturate too much for an unrealistic [...]

YC 2010 – Featured Worship Bands

One of the highlights of YC Alberta 2010 was of couse the band lineup. This year, bands included Bluetree, Matt Maher, Leeland, Manafest, Jason Upton, Thousand Foot Krutch, Disciple and Skillet. Bluetree hails from Belfast, Ireland and they led many of the worship sets and even mingled with the students and staff in attendance over [...]

Doritos, Viral Videos and Billy Reid

We had a chance to sit down with Billy Reid regarding video creation, how to make them viral and who is staying ahead of the curve.  Aparently, Doritos is a company that gets it.  At the very least, it appears that someone at Doritos has teens that watch Youtube.  Doritos has been hosting a contest [...]

SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Review

Product: SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card Provided By: SanDisk Price: Find Lowest Price Online Introduction: CompactFlash cards are not very popular anymore as Secure Digital cards are typically much cheaper.  That being said, pro-sumer Digital SLR cameras as well as full Professional SLR cameras use CompactFlash as it seems to be more reliable and [...]

Growing Success – A Real Challenge

I live in a single world but have a split personality.  I love technology, computers and such, but my life is also out playing in the dirt.  I guess I never grew out of that stage as a boy.  Spring is here in Alberta and it’s time to get in the field and plant some [...]

It’s My Life

If you’ve got a nice camera – or any camera for that matter, you may wonder how many times you can pull out the card and plug it into your computer without wearing things out.  Quite a while ago I picked up an Eye-Fi card to accompany me on a trip.  This card doesn’t have [...]

HDR Updates

I’m certainly no photographer, but I’ve had a bit of fun recently trying to pull off some HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos.  For those of you not familiar with this, the process is really quite simple in principle.  You take 3+ photos of the same subject at different exposure levels and then combine the images [...]

CoolIT Systems Interview & More

I just finished up a bit of an interesting interview, shop tour and Q&A session with Geoff Lyon of CoolIT Systems in Calgary Alberta.  They touched a few of their current products, where they’ve come from and even dropped a few hints regarding what we can expect from them in the future.  We’ve chopped the [...]

CES Aftermath – Qik

CES 2009 has come and gone and we were there to cover the event.  There were a lot of products and companies represented and BCCHardware tried to cover a wide array of products in order to appeal to many different readers.  We managed to cover everything from BFG’s new Phobos system to mobile stuff from [...]