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The Incredibly Small Osmo Pocket

Administrator — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:47:11 +0000

As the smallest three-axis stabilised handheld camera DJI has ever designed, the compact and intelligent Osmo Pocket turns any moment into a cinematic memory. In just seconds, Osmo Pocket lets you share your life anywhere, anytime.

Incredibly Small, Truly Smooth
The Osmo Pocket uses DJI’s smallest 3-axis mechanical handheld gimbal. In real-time, it precisely adjusts for your movements, turning your handheld video into a movie-like scene.

A Powerful Tool for Limitless Imagination
Osmo Pocket transforms all your life’s moments into wonderful images. It snaps photos in stunning detail, thanks to a 1/2.3-inch sensor, 80° FOV, and f/2.0 aperture. It can also shoot 4K/60fps video at 100 Mbps, slow motion video at 1080p/120fps 4x, and photos at 12 MP with a pixel size of 1.55 μm for footage worth sharing every time.

A Tradition of Breaking the Mold
Osmo Pocket boldly embodies the DJI approach to modern technology. The candy bar-sized device was made to be as convenient as your smartphone, wallet, and other daily essentials to offer everything you need for shake-free footage in any situation.

Mechanical Gimbal
Our engineers developed a micro-scale manufacturing process to achieve the smallest 3-axis gimbal in DJI history. This miniaturized mechanical stabilization platform and brushless motor always deliver fine-tuned gimbal control accuracy.

Noiseless Cooling System
For perfectly quiet performance, Osmo Pocket takes advantage of a fanless, passive cooling solution that dissipates heat evenly, ensuring longevity and consistent performance.

Single-Handed Design
A sandstone handle is non-slip and sweat-proof, offering a comfortable grip. The built-in touchscreen and buttons provide a quick, single-handed user experience, letting you choose modes and adjust settings in a few swipes and taps.

For more information visit www.dji.com/osmo-pocket

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RSAWEB keeps ESEA gamers at the top

Administrator — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:34:30 +0000

ESEA, a leading global third-party service for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, has recently relaunched in South Africa. This relaunch will see ESEA double the Rank Leaderboard prizes in South Africa allowing players to battle for their share of over 800 USD in prizes of CS:GO skins and ESEA Points in a monthly leader board. Players can queue up for ranked matches any time of the day, either in a team or individually. ESEA will continue to run their prestigious 5v5 league in South Africa where teams compete for two months before advancing to playoffs.

Local ISP, RSAWEB, has partnered with them to provide the backbone for their cloud infrastructure in Cape Town and Johannesburg. This will ensure that ESEA can keep up with the influx of South African gamers eager to climb the leaderboards. The increased cloud infrastructure provided by RSAWEB will ensure that players have a world-class experience while they compete for thousands of dollars in prizes on local, high-quality servers run by RSAWEB. To make the most of these upgrades and get smooth, lag-free gaming you’re going to need connectivity that can keep up—you’re going to need fibre. With RSAWEB you can get fast, uncapped fibre from only R395 a month. RSAWEB fibre comes with a whole host of freebies like a free premium router, free installation and/or connection, free LTE SIM card with 1GB of data each month, free call out to their home (1 hour onsite support or a free Wi-Fi assessment), up to R2,500 off when your referrals get connected and more. You can check your address for coverage here.

ESEA hosts servers around the globe for competitors of all skill levels to compete, practice, improve and qualify for some of the biggest tournaments competing for huge amounts of money. With RSAWEB on board, local players should see improved server speeds, less lag and a better overall experience. With these servers, ESEA helps gamers get the most out of CS:GO no matter what their goals are. Whether they’re top tier players competing for thousands of dollars and working towards the ESL Pro League or playing recreationally and simply looking to elevate their play with advanced statistics or heatmaps. Players will be competing on the leaderboard for the following:

Rank A
- Huntsman Knife | Slaughter (Field-Tested)
- Huntsman Knife | Boreal Forest (Field-Tested)
- Shadow Daggers | Safari Mesh (Field-Tested)
- StatTrak AK-47 | Neon Rider (Battle-Scarred)
- StatTrak AK-47 | Neon Rider (Battle-Scarred)
Rank B
- Shadow Daggers | Safari Mesh (Field-Tested)
- StatTrak AK-47 | Neon Rider (Battle-Scarred)
- StatTrak AWP | Mortis (Factory New)
- StatTrak M4A1-S | Leaded Glass (Well-Worn)
- StatTrak M4A1-S | Leaded Glass (Well-Worn)
Rank C
- StatTrak AWP | Mortis (Factory New)
- StatTrak M4A1-S | Dark Water (Field-Tested)
- StatTrak M4A1-S | Leaded Glass (Well-Worn)
- StatTrak AWP | PAW (Field-Tested)
- StatTrak AWP | PAW (Field-Tested)
Rank D
- StatTrak M4A1-S | Dark Water (Field-Tested)
- StatTrak M4A1-S | Leaded Glass (Well-Worn)
- StatTrak AWP | PAW (Field-Tested)
- AK-47 | Emerald Pinstripe (Factory New)
- AK-47 | Emerald Pinstripe (Factory New)

The 6th-10th place on each leaderboard will also receive 500 ESEA points which they can put toward more .clips, statistic resets, supporting their favourite Clubs, etc. The following months will feature similar prize pools, although the CS:GO skins may vary month to month.

Signing up for ESEA is incredibly easy. Players sign up online at ESEA, purchase their membership via Steam (for only R45 a month) and download the ESEA client, they’ll then be able to queue up for matches and start climbing the leaderboards.

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The new brand identity

Administrator — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:00:27 +0000

I stumbled upon the concept of margin while reading a post by Michael Hyatt, which led me to design my ideal week. Richard Swenson, M.D. (who wrote the book: Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives) describes margin like this:

Margin is the space between our load and our limits. It is the amount allowed beyond that which is needed. It is something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations. Margin is the gap between rest and exhaustion, the space between breathing freely and suffocating.

Last year I wrote about why booking too far in advance can be dangerous for your business, and this concept of margin so eloquently captures what I had recognized had been my problem: I was so booked up with clients that I wasn’t leaving any margin for error, growth, planning, or reflection. I wasn’t really growing my business in a sustainable way; I was just booking one client after the next. At the time this seemed like a good thing: doesn’t growing my business mean getting more clients?

A long redesign.

What if instead of booking up to 100% capacity (which more often than not ends up being closer to 120%), we only booked up to an 80% capacity?
What if we left more room for growth (personal or professional) and stopped being one with “busy-ness”?
I spent nearly a year turning down every new project (and even getting rid of old ones) so that I could reduce my workload, build in more margin, and create what is now Digital Strategy School. It takes time to build margin into your schedule.Write a book. Create a program. Update your contracts and proposals (which has been on your to-do list for how long..?) Spend more time with your family. Go above and beyond for a client. Learn something new. Actually follow through on the things that have been nagging at you for a long time.

When you design your ideal week, you start to see that the time you think you have is often not in alignment with how much time you actually have.

After designing my ideal week, I had a much clearer idea of how to create a framework for my week that would empower me to feel more focused by theming days of the week, and even parts of the day. SO simple, I know. Some of you have been doing this for ages and you’re already a pro, and some of you who saw my schedule said “woah, that’s so rigid, I need more flexibility!”

Structure enables flexibility.

If you’re not sure how much time you are actually spending on various tasks, use a tool like Rescue Time (their free version is excellent!) which runs in the background and tracks where your time is being spent. It can even send you weekly reports so you know exactly how much time you wasted on Facebook, or spent in your email inbox! You can assign different websites or programs/applications on a scale of very distracting to very productive, so you can see at a glance things like: which days of the week you’re most productive, which times of the day you’re most productive, and the sites on which you’re spending the most distracting time. Turns out I’m consistently “in the zone” around 3pm in the afternoon; so instead of trying to tackle highly creative work first thing in the morning (when my brain is barely functioning), I handle it in the afternoon, when I know I’m at my peak!

Creating more margin has been game-changing for my business.
What would be possible for yours?

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Working from your home?

Administrator — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:00:04 +0000

01. Wake up at the same time every day.

Naturally, my first impression of these headphones is based off of the look of them. They have a classic over-the-ear style that is highlighted by a blue LED light that indicates the power for the noise canceling. The padding on the ear pieces seems adequate for extended usage periods.

They are wired headphones, but the 3.5mm stereo mini-plug cable is detachable. Something else I noticed right of the bat was the very nice carrying case that comes with them. It has a hard plastic exterior with a soft cloth interior that helps to protect the surface of the headphones from scratches. I never truly appreciated cases for headphones until I started carrying them from place-to-place. Now I can’t imagine not having a case.

It’s funny — the thing I feared would take away my “freedom” is the one thing that has allowed me to have it.

Joelle Steiniger

02. Have a routine when you wake up.

Once I gave the headphones a thorough once-over exam, I tried them on. As I mentioned, they have a classic over-the-ear style and just looking at them, the padding on the ear pieces seem adequate and the peak of the headband seemed to be a bit lacking, but you don’t really know comfort unless you try on the product. So, I slipped the headphones on and found them to be exquisitely comfortable. In order to test how voices sounded, and the overall art of sound mixing, I pulled up Netflix on my iPad Air 2 and watched a few minutes of a movie to hear all the nuances of the film. None of them were lost. In fact, I ended up hearing sounds that I hadn’t heard before. Echoes…birds chirping…wind blowing through trees…breathing of the characters…it was very impressive what the headphones ended up bringing out for me.

I’d start my day by checking email, Twitter, Facebook. Reading the “news”. I’d look at my to-do list and start working on something.

03. Plan your workout time — stick to it.

Now that I had the headphones on my head, I was finally ready to plug and play some music. I plugged the provided cable into the jack on the headphones and then the one on my iPhone 6. Then I called up Pandora. I tend to have a very eclectic music purview and have many stations set up for different moods. From John Williams to Fallout Boy, the sound quality of these headphones was remarkable. There is an amazing depth of sound and incredible highs and lows that make listening to music a truly breathtaking experience.

In order to test how voices sounded, and the overall art of sound mixing, I pulled up Netflix on my iPad Air 2 and watched a few minutes of a movie to hear all the nuances of the film. None of them were lost. In fact, I ended up hearing sounds that I hadn’t heard before. Echoes…birds chirping…wind blowing through trees…breathing of the characters…it was very impressive what the headphones ended up bringing out for me.

Distractions aside, there was no real rhyme or reason to my workflow. The not-so-fun (but necessary) stuff kept getting neglected.

04. Call it a night.

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Top Deejay Headphones

Administrator — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:00:07 +0000

First impressions.

Many years ago, I worked for my parents who own a video production company. Because it is a family business, you inevitably end up wearing many hats and being the czar of many different jobs. I mainly managed projects and worked as a video editor. On production, there were times that I was called on to work as an audio tech and was made to wear headphones on long production days. In those days, having a really good set of headphones that picked up every nuance of sound was essential to making sure the client got what they needed. Many years ago, I worked for my parents who own a video production company. Because it is a family business, you inevitably end up wearing many hats and being the czar of many different jobs. I mainly managed projects and worked as a video editor. On production, there were times that I was called on to work as an audio tech and was made to wear headphones on long production days. In those days, having a really good set of headphones that picked up every nuance of sound was essential to making sure the client got what they needed.

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It’s safe to say that because of my unique professional experiences, I’ve tested out a lot of headphones.

John Williams

A perfect fit.

Quality.

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