Month: June 2020

How to clean your SLR Camera

You will need only a few items and products in order to clean it properly.

SRL Cameras need to be cleaned frequently but if you have left your camera apart for a while, it might be the right time to clear off dust. Cameras can accumulate dust and grime that can affect the gear, reason why we are going to show you some tips to keep it away from dirt.

The Body Camera

To begin, find a clean space to start cleaning the body of the camera. You can use a denatured alcohol and a toothbrush that you don’t use to take off stains.  Be aware that the denatured alcohol can remove the glue that holds the leather surfaces.  Also, you will need to clean the lens and the sensor area of your SLR camera. Each part is a delicate surface, you need to take your time to clean these two areas. To clean these surfaces will need:

  1.  Rubber bulb blower
  2. Lint-free wipes
  3. Lens cleaner 

Clean The Lens

Remember that SLR/DSLR lenses are made of glass and the clarity of your photo depends on each lens and free of dirt particles. This is the reason why a camera kit is important to have. This includes a soft cloth cleaning like a microfiber cloth and a blower.  At this stage, you want to remove the detritus without making scratches over the lens. To clean your lens dust, use a blower without a brush, if it’s too complicated to remove it, try to use the non-abrasive, lint-free wipe with lens cleaner. Apply the cleaner on the cloth to clean the front glass of the lens. 

If you maintain a proper cleaning of the lenses of your SLR/DSLR camera, you will ensure a better picture quality and a greater lifespan for your photography equipment. Once you clean your camera you can store it in a safe place for a future use. Moreover, put your camera into a camera bag to store it and protect it from dust and dirt. Likewise, you can include a blower, lens cleaner and cloth in your camera bag. 

 The Sensor

You don’t need to get inside the camera to clean the sensor that often. However, if you notice blemishes on your images, there might be some particles to remove inside your camera.  A tip, to notice if there are strange particles inside your camera is to turn off and remove the lens.

At the moment you turn off the camera, the sensor is charged and might attract some dirt particles.  Be sure to set the camera mode to sensor cleaning mode. Then, use a small bellows, blow air into the digital sensor’s defensive filtering element. Please, try to not touch the filter with the tip of the bellows as this will damage the element.  Finally, after you have used the bellows to take away dirt, you can use your clean brush and gently sweep the surface. 

We hope these tips help you to keep your camera clean from dust or dirt. However, if you think it is time for an upgrade of camera, you can sell used cameras online and get paid for it.  Check the article how to sell used cameras to follow the steps. 

 

Why Is My iPhone Running Slow? 8 Tips To Solve It

 

iPhones are great phones with good quality and technology making its customer life easy. The Smartphones are the second most used gadget after laptops, and after using them for a while it slows down. Reason why we are going to list a few troubleshooting steps to help fix your iPhone running slow. Perhaps, your iPhone is slow because you need to fix some internal updates or clear cache. Let’s see the steps to follow below.

Restart Your iPhone

Maybe it is kind of obvious, but a simple tip of advice is turn off and then turn on your iphone when it slows down. This helps to fix any issues that your phone is facing. To do so, press and hold the power ,and home button at the same time for a few seconds. When you see the Apple logo, you have already restarted your device and you can release the buttons. In the case you have an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 plus, you will need to hold the power and volume down buttons. 

Check The Updates

Another issue why iPhone running slow are updates on the operating system. This is because Apple constantly does upgrades on the IOS system to fix important security patches which leads in slowing your iPhone. Moreover, they sometimes include performance tweaks making your phone run slightly faster or to get better battery management.

If you need to update for the latest version of IOS, follow these steps:

  1.  Go to Settings app
  2. Tap in “General” and then tap “Software Update”
  3.  Check that “Automatic Updates” is set to “On”
  4. If you see any update waiting to be installed, you can install it.

Clear Cache

Another reason why your iPhone slows is because of Cache. The cache is a very common practice of saving data temporarily so the site dont need to download each time .  Many apps and websites use cache such as images and videos in order to load faster the next time you enter their websites.  However, over the time, this cache accumulates and this takes a huge space that might result in slowing down your iPhone. If you want to delete the data for all your apps, you need to do it one by one to clear their cache. Go to Settings>  Safari > clear history and data.

Delete Unused Apps

Having a lot of apps can really slow down your iPhone. First, the apps you don’t use have cache saved on them and let you without storage.This is the reason why, deleting unused apps will help to liberate space on your device and to improve its performance. Just make a list of the apps you use frequently and get rid of the other ones. To delete them, simply select the app and hold it for a few seconds. Then, select the X option at the right corner of the app. 

Disable Automatic Process

This option, the Background App Refresh allows apps on your iPhone to continue running in the background and  process data while you are using other apps. For instance, Facebook is an app that uses this resource and runs a lot of background processes. Therefore, these apps in the background can be the source of slowing down your iPhone. However, we recommend doing it if you think you have a serious performance issue on your iPhone. You can disable the apps you want by doing this: Go to settings> General> Background App Refresh> Toggle off the apps you don’t want to continue running.

Reduce Graphic Settings

iPhones have a lot of nice animations which can lead to slowing  the CPU of your phone.These animations cause your iphone running slow , especially if you have an older version. You can easily disable the graphic animations to improve the speed on your phone. Go to settings > General> Accessibility> Tap on Reduce Transparency> Turn it on > tab back > Select Reduce Motion and then toggle it on.  If you do this, you will have your phone working faster and your battery will last even more. 

Check The Battery

As all gadgets have their own life cycle and it is quite normal that after some years of use your battery runs slow. Follow these steps to check the condition of your battery.  Go to Settings App > battery> then tap “Battery Health”. On the screen you will see the maximum remaining capacity of your battery, its peaks and a general overview of the battery health. If you read “significantly degraded” battery performances you might replace the battery, 

Reset To Factory Settings

If you have already tried all the tips mentioned before and your iphone is still running slow, you can reset it. This option always works but you have to backup all your data before doing so. To backup your information you can use iTunes or iCloud.

  1. Settings app and go to General
  2. Scroll down and select Reset
  3. Choose Erase All Content and Settings. 

We hope all these tips help you to solve your slowness on your iPhone. Last but not least, if you are having the same issue but with ipads? Check the article 5 tips to speed up your ipad for more tips.

 

Sony PlayStation 5 Specs, Key Games And Features

Check the specifications, key games and more of the PS5.

The PS5 design and accessories were revealed at the Digital Event called “The Future of Gaming” held on June 11th by Sony. Likewise, the company showed which games are compatible with the new-gen of PlayStation 5 such as Gran Turismo 7, Godfall and more. Check the article this is the new playstation 5 for further information about the hardware, the new-gen versions of consoles and more. 

In the followed article we are going to disclose the PlayStation 5 specifications.

 PS5 Specs

  • Optical Drive: 4K Blu-ray drive
  • Ram: 16GV GDDR6
  • Storage: Custom 825GB SSD
  • Expandable storage NVMe SSD slot
  • CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz
  • GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz, RDNA 2 architecture
  • 3D audio

The PlayStation is built on custom AMD CPUs and GPUs. The GPU will use ray tracing and primitive shaders, that will have an impact on the power consumption and heat management. Not similar to the PS4 version which has the power consumption varies a lot more from game to game, the PS5 will prevent overheating by standardising its power consumption for each game. 

Likewise,the GPU of the PS5 has a eight-core Zen 2-architecture CPU running up to 3.5GHz, and RDNA 2 2.23GHz GPU with 36 CUs and 16GB GDDR6. About the 3D Audio uses Head Related Transfer Function or HRTF which enable to map out an individual’s hearing based on sound’s frequency, volume and direction. Plus, it has a dynamic AI audio which responds to the demands of the user to check the emotional state of the player and adjust the music. 

SSD

The SSDs are key to PlayStation 5. Not only the SSDs (Solid State Drives) are important for its storage but to use it as virtual memory. The SDD of PS5 has a load rate of 5.5GB/second which is 10 times faster than the PS4 .This  results in seamless gameplay from texture loading to exploration and it has a maximum storage of 825GB. 

The console has NVMe slots that give you the option to add more storage and it has external USB drives. This NVMe needs to meet certain speed requirements and Sony will make a list of compatible Solid State Drive (SSD) with the PS5. Also, this will retain a 4K Blu-ray drive for Discs games and for playing movies.  Therefore, it is highly possible to expect compatible PS4 games on PS5.

PS5 Key Features 

  • 4K games at 60 fps, up to 8K resolution, up to 120 fps, ray tracing, fast-loading SSD
  • PS5 PSVR headset will have two front and one rear camera, with an additional camera on a Move-style controller that will be operated by wireless. 
  • PS5 home screen is more dynamic that will display the missions that are available or let players choose their activity  in real time. 
  • The Tempest Engine is used to create a more realistic audio along with HRTF. Both will make the sound to listen differently.

Which are the Key games?

PlayStation has announced nine games along with the new PS5 console at the digital event on 11th June. Below,  we will present a brief summary of the key games which are: Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon II: Zero West, Gran Turismo 7, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. In case, you missed the streaming and you can watch the full showcase here. 

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales from Insomniac Games and Marvel:

The Spider-Man: Miles Morales games is an expansion of the original game through an all-new story. In this new story, the players are going to experience the rise of Miles Morales while he is mastering his new powers to become his own Spider-Man. The experience is being enhanced by PS5 with the new hardware console and the ultra-fast SDD. The SDD will enable players to near instantaneously fast-travel across Marvel;s NYC or feel tensions of punches,web shots and more. This is a standalone game confirmed by Insomniac’s James Stevenson. 

Horizon Forbidden West from Guerrilla:

Aloy’s story continues, as the protagonist, returns in this open world action RPG known as Horizon: Forbidden West, which is built on the excellent combat and exploration of the original game. Aloy’s will face awe-inspiring machines and mysterious threats. The game is going to be exclusively for PS5.

Gran Turismo 7 from Polyphony Digital

At GT7 you will see race cars-from different eras- and production cars, riding on both road courses and race tracks. Like the unveiled Mazda RX-Vision and Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 cars. Other cars shown are Lamborghini Diablo, Porsche Carrera GT and Subaru WRX STI JGTC. The GT7 game, promess to have a more realistic driving experience thanks to haptic feedback. Also, with the 3D audio of PS5, players can sense the position of other cars and drivers that surround them. In addition, the lighting effects look very realistic, especially the interior of the cars which are very detailed.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart from Insomniac Games:

The game is developed by Insomniac Games, Rift Aparts sees the Ratchet & Clank on the run from a robotic army. It is an intergalactic adventure experience game designed around the high speed of SSD for PS5. Gamers will travel through different environments that Rifts, Ratchet and Clank enters- from a jungle area and emerging from cyberpunk city.  The Creative Director of Insomniac says that “ “We’re doing things we’ve never been able to do before, like use dimensional rifts to be able to leap from planet to planet nearly instantly or put ray trace reflections on Clank,” he states.

Other games are:  

Demon’s Souls from Japan Studio and Bluepoint Games, Sackboy A Big Adventure from Sumo Digital, Returnal from Housemarque, Destruction All Stars from Lucid Games, Astro’s Playroom from Japan Studios.

Looking to trade in your used console for an upgrade? Read our article for essential tips on how to trade in xbox one and how to get paid for it.