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Who’s going to the SWPP convention?

Morning Folks

Today we’ll be making final plans for attending the Society of Wedding and Portrait Professionals seminar in London on Saturday. We’re going along to promote CRU’s storage products with Jared Platt on his workshop on Lightroom 5 Workflow. For those that attend, there will be special pricing available after the show.

I’m pretty excited to see this as I’ve heard a lot about Jared and it promises to be very interesting so I’d encourage any photographers out there to think about coming along. There’s plenty of other workshops going on over the next couple of days on business and technique. Definitely worth a visit even just for the trade show.

The products Jared recommends that photographers use for storing their data are from CRU Dataport, and CHNO are focused on these products in the UK. We’re currently working with the manufacturer on a plan to get more exposure in 2014, and hope to be able to release further information on this very soon.

To start with we’ve had a review model on trial for several months with a multi-award-winning sports photographer who now absolutely loves his Toughtech Duo, and we should have a report from him that we can publish soon.

That’s all for today, need to get on with final preparations for the weekend now.

Have a good day,

Chris

 

6 Gadget Gift Ideas

Morning all

With Christmas fast approaching, today I wanted to suggest a couple of gadgets you could give as gifts this year (to friends, family……or yourself). I’ve tried to steer away from the stereotypes – Xbox, PlayStation and iPad’s – because most of you know all about them I’m sure……but I tried to come up with a few offbeat ideas for gadgets that should be well received. Starting at around £20, going up to £109 (some of the speakers can get more expensive) this should give you sufficient food for thought when working out what to buy.
Cable organiser

Most people travel these days with some sort of bag; be it a rucksack, a messenger bag, a handback or a briefcase. And most of those bags will be crammed full of stuff that takes an age to find. Your phone, pens, earphones, cables etc are always a pain in the proverbial inside your bag, rattling about and get tangled up with other stuff.   But with the Cocoon Grid It  system, you can get various sized inserts (to fit your needs and/or bag) that allow you to securely attach equipment to a semi-rigid backing using a series of rubberised woven elastic straps. This helps you keep your bag organised, and carry more things in an organised manner. I personally have the XL version and keep 3 external hard drives and a number of cables attached to it for use when out on client sites, and find it invaluable.

There also several different sizes available to suit all needs, as well as organiser for attaching behind the visor in your car, and ones for carrying your notebook computer in.

 
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New Products Imminent, and Webstore Update

Well, finally after waiting for several weeks, the invites for the next Apple announcement have come out. The press are expecting updates to most of the range (iPad, iPad mini, MacBook Pro, Mac mini) as well as a release date for OS X 10.9 Mavericks, but quite frankly we’ll settle for iPad! The announcement is set for next Tuesday, October 22nd, and we’ll update you on the day with as much information as we can.

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, but we’ve been working hard with clients on projects as well as spending a lot of time developing new features for the Web site. Coming soon, we will be opening up our own webstore, where we’ll be selling a range of products that we recommend to our clients. That’s all going on in the background, and as soon as we’re in a position to open the store with an initial range of products we’ll let you know.