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Author: Taz Goldstein

A person's hand holding a white plastic ring while using an iPhone 4.
Gear

Homemade iPhone 4 Steadicam

Our friends over at Palm Sounds (an awesome site for gadget loving musicians) just turned us on to a killer video by Spencer S. Watson, demonstrating

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Updates a poppin’!

Greetings campers!  Here’s a few recent app updates you might not be aware of. Vintage Video Maker 1.5 – This great app for adding a

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A smartphone displaying an application interface for a digital assistant named "TOLAND" from HHH Interviews, set against a dark green background with a logo on the left.
Apps

HHH Interviews the makers of TOLAND

Calling all DP’s! Chemical Wedding has just released Toland ASC Digital Assistant ($39.00), a new iPhone film calculator unlike any calculator you’ve seen before.  It’s totally

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A group of people with pets on their phone, ensuring legal protection.
Apps

mRelease keeps you legal…and covers your ass.

Now here’s an app that falls squarely into the “why the hell didn’t I think of that?” category.

What happens when you’re shooting on location, and you suddenly remember that you left all your blank release forms at home.  Don’t fret.  Thanks to mRelease from being MEdia, you’ll always have four of the most common production releases (appearance, property, location, and crew) right on your iPhone.  Here’s how it works:

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