Archive for Category: "Software"

Air PlayIt Streaming iPhone App Review

Air PlayIt Streaming iPhone App Review

Air PlayIt is a free app for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch which you to stream video and audio libraries to the devices via Wi-Fi and 3G/4G networks.

WindowBlinds 7 Review

WindowBlinds 7 Review

OIOpublisher One of the neatest features of Windows XP was the ability to customize the interface to any theme you could conceive.  You could even do this without special software if you performed a few simple tasks. When Windows Vista was introduced, it touted a new hardware-accelerated desktop, called Aero (which stands for Authentic, Energetic, [...]

Improving Video Quality with CUDA

Improving Video Quality with CUDA

Technology moves so quickly that almost everyone has analog (tape) and digital video they want to save and enjoy.   Even with today’s low-cost, high quality cameras and ubiquitous camphones is that the results are usually less than great viewing quality.  Unless you’re carrying a bank of photo lights around the video is usually a little on [...]

Raxco PerfectDisk 10 Review

Raxco PerfectDisk 10 Review

PerfectDisk 10 is a nifty new program that I’ve been testing out extensively over the past few days. Essentially, it is a defragment program, and one might say “Well, Windows already comes with a way to defrag my hard drives, how much more can this do?” PerfectDisk 10, however, is the defrag equivalent to a [...]

Windows 7 Interview

Windows 7 Interview

With the pending release of the latest Microsoft Windows operating system, I like many other PC users have questions about the latest system currently known as Windows 7. I recently was able to speak with a Microsoft spokesperson for the new OS who took the time to provide us at OCModShop with this interview. OCMS: [...]

X-oom Podcast Studio Review

X-oom Podcast Studio Review

Everywhere I go, I see people with iPods.  They started with less than 1GB of space, went up to 2GB and 4GB, and then there were rumors roaming the web about an astoundingly huge 30GB version… with video.  And now we have an 80GB version that has music, movies, games, internet, and just about anything [...]

Using Pinnacle Studio 12 for Mom’s Approval

Using Pinnacle Studio 12 for Mom’s Approval

Family memory keepers have increasingly done away with the digital shoebox and are sharing photos, videos and digital photo albums on home TVs and across the Internet.   Memory keepers are usually married females who enjoy taking photos and videos (especially when children are involved) and are very comfortable in working with editing and sharing solutions [...]

Using Cyberlink PowerDirector 7

Using Cyberlink PowerDirector 7

When you buy a computer, a hundred thousand “what is the best” questions will pop up. What is the best firewall, antivirus, system cleaner, porn site… er… anyway, you get the picture. And when you buy your first digital video camera, that same question pops up once you shoot your first few hours of film. How do I [...]

NTI Media Maker 8 Review

NTI Media Maker 8 Review

Over the past few years we’ve bought a lot of specialized software for photo manipulation, video editing, music capture and CD/DVD burning. The boxes sit in our home office library.  The software ends up sitting on our hard drive until we upgrade to a new computer. They are probably real good at doing the job [...]

Reallusion iClone Review

Reallusion iClone Review

I have three jobs.  One of them is writing reviews for the OCModshop.  Another is independent filmmaker.  I have another job, but I can’t tell you about that one.  It’s real hush hush.  Let’s just say that the first two are jobs I really enjoy.  So when I get a package from one that involves the [...]