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A man is holding up a tablet in front of a slot machine, capturing the moment with MamboFrame.
Apps

Movie★Slate 3 and the MamboFrame finally arrive!

Movie★Slate was one of the very first apps we covered on HHH.  Later, we interviewed the developer after the 2.0 release. It’s been a long time favorite of the filmmaking community, and was even featured in a recent iPad commercial, and at the Final Cut Pro X premiere in Las Vegas earlier this year. With the release of Movie★Slate 3,

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A person is holding an iPhone with a screen on it.
Gear

DataVideo’s iPhone & iPad Teleprompters

It was a slow year for iDevices at this year’s DV Expo in Pasadena (thought not as slow as last year). Overall, the DV Expo a great show, but it’s been a little light on iOS products.  Only one company snagged my attention.

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Monochrome portrait of a man with glasses and a detailed beard.
Apps

Thank you, Steve.

I’ve been using Apple products as part of my filmmaking workflow for the past 30 years. It all began with an Apple II plus when I was 11 years old.  I wrote my first program (in Applesoft) to generate the end credits for a stop-motion sci-fi film I had just shot on Super-8.  I simply pointed my camera and the

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Is Amazon’s New KINDLE FIRE good for filmmakers?

Sure, we loves us some Appley goodness, but they’re not the only game in town. If you haven’t already heard, Amazon just refreshed their entire Kindle lineup, adding a very interesting looking android-based color tablet called the Kindle Fire.  It sports a 7″ display, a dual-core processor, and an 8-hour battery life. The best feature, however, is the price.  It

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Three people on a sidewalk, one performing a bike trick while another watches. Micah Moss, part of the trio, captures this moment for the Reader Showcase.
Inspiration

READER SHOWCASE: The Latter by Micah Moss

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means! It’s time for another Reader Showcase!  Ok… actually, this is the first time we’re doing this, but it sounds like a good idea for a weekly thing, doesn’t it? So, consider this the first of a new weekly feature. A showcase, if you will.  A Wednesday Reader Showcase.  Now, where was I?

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Announcing a storyboard of screens showing an iOS smartphone application interface with various functions, including photo gallery, map navigation, video call, and facial recognition.
Apps

Announcing “Storyboard” for iOS

True Hero Studio, the folks behind the Producer & Producer HD apps for iPhone and iPad have recently announced their latest tool for iOS devices, aptly named: Storyboard. The beautifully designed app, due to appear in the App Store any day now [update: it’s been released!], will offer some pretty exciting features:

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