So you start up your own company or simply want to entertain a ‘HighTech’ hobby. First, you set up a website; a time-consuming and panic inducing process for even the most tech savvy. Upon its completion, you rejoice – the pain is over! Discover More Here about the other ways to promote your business digitally. But just because your...
Author - TheHighTechHobbyist
This is a monthly article featuring a chosen ‘HighTechHobbyist’. Some of these guests will be well-known in the tech community, while others will be up-and-coming amateurs. Included will be an interview of the ‘Hobbyist’, along with some of their ‘HighTech’ work. I will also ask the featured ‘Hobbyist’ to give any tips...
So you just purchased a drone and want to learn how to learn how to fly the thing. Or maybe you have had a quadcopter for a while and are ready to move up to the next level. What do you do? Take an online drone course! During sales, these online courses can be around $10-$15, and are some of the best investments you can make. This is especially...
Do you want an awesome custom wallpaper for your smartphone made from your own photo? Today I’m going to be walking you through how to make a 3D parallax effect wallpaper. By utilizing your phone’s gyroscope, this effect will make your object (or person) ‘pop’ out of the photograph to give a 3D depth effect when you move...
When virtual reality really started to emerge late in 2015 and early in 2016, a lot of the entertainment developments were fairly easy to predict. Some of the most exciting early headlines revolved around the movie The Martian, and how virtual reality was being used to craft a game-like experience around the film. One article asked if the VR...
Back in the early 2000s, it was the golden era of DV (digital video) tapes. Not exactly anyone could afford buying a professional video camera. Not to mention being able to edit the video content afterwards. And mobile phones used to have only VGA cameras that, except for color, looked almost the same as video content from the 1920’s. Years have...
When Adobe acquired Fotolia in 2014 for $800 million, it was obvious this was going to be a serious bet for the company. Adobe decided to enter into the stock image industry and managed to easily integrate Adobe Stock with their Creative Suite. This guarantees you will have a wide variety of images to use and easily import into your workflow...
oogle recently made available Google TimeLapse: A video created from 32 years (1984 to 2016) worth of satellite imagery. Over 55 million satellite images are shown. Take a look yourself, the world is quickly changing. Using this amazing new engine I was able to make the video shown above. Here’s how I did it: I used Google Earth Engine to...