Thursday, 16 March 2017

Looking for watches or smart watches for any occasion? Read on........

Glygaweb have been supplying high spec smart watches for some time now but now also have a range of designer watches for both men and women


Stylish and beautiful designs are available to suite any occasion.








The range consists of automatic and mechanical watches and also there is a range of classic hollowed out designs like this one which are particularly stylish.






We also have a range of watches styled in wood which are particularly eye catching.






As usual, the prices on our website are low, so why not go ahead and take a look, you'll be glad you did. While your there, why not sign up for a 20% off voucher that you can use anytime!






Saturday, 4 February 2017

Ever thought of recording your Xbox One or PS4 Game play................


You've had a fantastic kill streak on Call of Duty, the games ended, but no one else knows how brilliant you were (not something that I have ever had a problem with however). You can show the world how good you were by recording your game play and uploading it to YouTube so that everyone can see! These are some tips on what you'll need to think about to get your game play uploaded.

There are video sharing options already built in to the Xbox One and PS4. If you only want to upload basic, un-edited footage then these are ok options. One thing to remember though is that if you want people to actually watch what you've uploaded, the quality of this type of upload, compared to other gaming videos out there, doesn't really compare and it's less likely to get many views. Sad fact, but you may get lucky and be happy with the results. If your looking to get better results however, to truly show off your skills, then you're going to need to invest in some video capture hardware.



There are a number of options out there such as the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable Lite shown above. You can get this for around £60 and boasts video capture at full 1080p. That said most options on the market also capture at 1080p but you can pay upwards of £100 to start for some. Having had personal experience with the AverMedia, I can't fault what you get for the price with HDMI pass through and audio options the quality is really good. 
Making gaming videos is not as daunting as it sounds providing you have the right kit. There are options out there for capturing game footage without connecting to a PC such as the Hauppage HD PVR Rocket. 

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This enables you to save footage to USB storage and has a lot of functionality. However, recording to a computer does make life slightly easier from a later editing point of view. One thing to remember is that recording at 1080p and 60FPS will produce videos with a large file size. Even a video of 15 minutes will take up Gigabytes of storage and this obviously will have an effect when you come to upload your video to YouTube, so it could take a while. It's worth pointing out that recording at this level may not be completely necessary as YouTube compresses the file size when you upload and although they do make some changes to improve the quality for viewing, it may not be worthwhile recording at such high levels.

Another thing worth thinking about is what games are you looking to record? Retro games need far lower bitrate (how much data is saved per second) than games such as Call of Duty Infinite Warfare and it depends what you want to achieve, if it's the visual wow factor that your looking for then you will need the higher bitrate and the larger file size. But, be warned, video editing high res game capture is going to need a good a high spec computer ideally (we used a Mac Book Pro with the AverMedia with a quad-core i5 processor and 8 gig of RAM, the 128 Gig SSD got full pretty quickly though). Video editing software is also important, you can get free options, we used iMovie as that was already pre-installed but keep in mind that you may need to buy some decent editing software unless you look at buying a capture device with some bundled software.

Hopefully this has given a little background as to what you may need if you are thinking about doing some game capture. There are other things to think about such as setting up a YouTube channel for example and your audio requirements, but we'll look to cover these at another time.



Friday, 27 January 2017

iCloud storage full and don't want to spend money on increasing your storage? Read on.........

Apple's iCloud storage is an important feature for us Apple users. It backs up data so that it can be accessed on multiple devices. For those of us who still only have 16Gb of internal storage, it can help free up space by backing up photo's leaving the photo's in internal storage optimised to save space. You can pay to increase your iCloud storage, but if that's not something that your keen on doing, you can clear space on your existing storage. Follow the tips below to help you regain some of that precious storage space.



Also worth remembering is that once your storage is completely full, you can't upload anything else so your device's storage is also going to suffer.

First thing to do is check how much storage you still have on your iPhone or iPad. You can do this by:

Settings  iCloud  Storage (for devices running iOS 9 or later).
Settings  iCloud  Storage  Manage Storage (for iPhone and iPad enabled by iOS 8).
Settings  iCloud  Storage & Backup (for iOS devices running on versions earlier than iOS 8).
Once you've found out how much storage you actually have, you can then decide what you want to remove and what you want to keep. There are a lot of apps that automatically back up to the iCloud when you install them and its likely that some of these you don't really need to be backed up so you need to decided which ones you want to be backed up and which you don't, make the necessary changes and free up some space.

A. Select which iOS Apps you need to backup on iPhone/iPad

1: Launch Settings app on your iPhone/iPad.

Tap on Settings

2: Tap on iCloud option.

Tap on iCloud

3: Next, tap Storage.

Now tap Storage

4: Under the STORAGE section, tap Manage Storage.

Tap on Manage Storage

5: Now tap on the name of your iPhone or iPad.


6: This will show you a list of apps under CHOOSE DATA TO BACK UP section.


7: Tap on Show All Apps to make your selection process easier.


8: You can now toggle off any app you don’t want to back up and delete the backup.

B. Deleting photos and videos from your iCloud Library:

On iPhone/iPad
1: Launch Photos app and tap on Photos from the bottom left corner of phone screen.
2: Tap Select.
3: Next, select the photos you want to delete and then tap on trash can icon from the bottom right corner.

C. Managing Your iCloud Drive

First off, follow steps 1 - 4 in A. above. Then,
5: Under DOCUMENTS & DATA, tap on the app you want to remove storage for.


6: Tap on Edit in the top right corner.


7: Press on Delete All.


Then just confirm you want to delete all when prompted.

Hopefully these tips may help you free up some storage and save you some money.
We have some other posts related to using your iPhone or iPad that you may find useful and interesting too, just click on the links below: