One big quicktime event
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Saw 2 is hands and shoulders above its predecessor. Campbell and Michael are the main game players, both suffering from severe inner ear problems and vertigo as well as crippling polio, judging by there inability to walk a foot wide board of wood and running speed of just past crawling. With as twisty and complex a story as any Saw movie, the story holds up rather well. Michael Tapp finds himself in a stretch of abandoned real estate, trying to free the cops that were part of his fathers police unit.

Like its predecessor, the game struggles for atmosphere, but manages to pull it off rather well. The backgrounds are vivid and well detailed. In place of the same sequence of rooms from the prior game, it moves between a hotel, subway, hospital, and a school. Audio is still all Tobin Bell, though the other characters are well voiced, if a tad whiny and childish. The background from Detective Tapp still misses its mark, as they can't find a good voice actor to sound like Tapp.

Gameplay is where it falls flat. Everything except puzzles is a QTE. Dodging booby traps, holes in the floor and collapsing ceilings, combat and some cinematics, everything is quicktime events. While this sometimes contributes, it more often robs the moment of the feeling its going floor. The traps are repetitively repetitive, though the character traps are well made, few have the metaphorical irony that the Saw movies did so well, and few have any originality, though some are spot on. Boss fights are tedious and banal, and feel more like work. Save points are rare as diamonds, so you better have a good hour to play at each stint.

The tone is all wrong though. Jigsaw rewards ingenuity and drive, but he doesn't punish curiosity. There are too many places where you can be insta killed for trying to find collectibles, one of the few things done exceedingly well and in line with the larger universe story and tone. But there's a shotgun or blade trap on nearly every door, and you're shuttled through like a canal lock, meaning you can't go back and explore.

One great thing is the Billy Doll puzzles, which are optional, are HARD. Not just mind numbing find the combo nonsense, but complex number and logic puzzles. This is a rather tasty bit that I wish had been applied to the larger game, as while some of the puzzles are fun, most are tedious, though nearly all of them are done with a decent amount of thought. A bit more explanation, and raising the bar for the majority of the puzzles would've done great things for this as whole.

Overall, this is a solid rent, but don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting to put an axe through the TV. Given this is twice the quality of the initial foray, hopefully the third installation will be of the quality of the original saw movie.
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iPhoto has a long ways to go before becoming a great organizer. Events seemed like a great idea when they were released in iPhoto 08 but the trouble with them is that you can't put events inside of other events. The reason this is such a problem is that after you load so many thousands of photographs there becomes to many events and it becomes cumbersome to sludge through them all.

Their solution to this problem in 08 was the add the ability to merge events together. When this happens everything becomes one large event, it doesn't maintain the groups of the events you merge together. I guess I can forgive them not totally thinking this feature though in iPhoto 08 but nearly a year and a half later they should have got this right by now. Adding events inside of events is a lot more important than even features like faces and places.

Doing a search is also limiting from the search box. You can't set multiple search criteria at a time like in the Finder or Adobe Bridge. In other words I can't say show me the files with these keywords that were taken during this time period and have this rating. I can only do one at a time. Yes I can do this with a smart folder but I would like to have option not to since I don't always want to come back to the search later.

Posting to Facebook and Flickr only gives you access to some of the features on those sites. You can't enter in all the information about the pictures from directly with in iPhoto (captions for photos, who can see the pictures, what should be the key photograph for an album etc.) Also iPhoto doesn't pull the previous albums you created back in to iPhoto so you can only view some of your albums not all of them.

If you ever have to move your information to a new hard drive down the road all the work you did to put together slide shows won't come across with the rest of the photos. I found this out the hard way as a spent a lot of time setting up manual Ken Burns effects so that they would pan from one particular area of a photograph to another. Now the only way a can access them is to boot back and forth between my old hard drive. It is a good thing I happen to have two drives in my machine or I would have to recreate them. I imagine this is what you would have to do if you had a laptop.

The recent area on the sidebar only shows the last event you look at. This is ok but I would like to see a history of the last several events I viewed. The last 12 months area doesn't organize those photos by events so you just gets this massive number of photos which isn't very convenient.
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Very good BUT...if watching video, there is a delay.  It's small, but noticeable.  It seems to lag about one-third to one-half of a second.
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This is perfect for family videos.  It's so portable and such a quick startup, I can catch a lot of moments that wouldn't have been caught with my previous cameras.  I love the quality and ease of use.  Great value for the price.
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There is a long delay of several seconds when video is captured.  And even if I set sensativety to max of 30(?) feet, it only detects motion when I was 3 feet away.
1404701
They should put a button that we can record on demand, some peoples are out of the sensor range but at least we can record them if necessary.
1578367
Download and install went reasonably well.  However, you should be aware that QuickTime is also required for the product to function correctly.  Works adequately for photo manipulation which was the reason for purchase.
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If what you need is an overpriced cripple only capable of ONE, as in a single, action, this is your  friend. That second event you were thinking about? Bwwaaah!!!
2589039
I love using the ExpoDisc. My skin tones turn out amazing and editing time is reduced by at least half.
2416057
Great for event and any run and gun situation video work. The quality of the video head is really good. The feet are solid and it can hold the camera standing up by itself, but I don't recommend that function unless you have a really lite camera setup.
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As someone who shoots a lot of digital images and edits and organizes them in various software programs (Photoshop, Image Expert, etc.) I bought the Fotoshow primarily as a means to display pre-edited slideshows on tv screens to friends and associates. Technically, the machine works great: Great quality images, smooth transitions, easy to use. My quibbles: The unit's firmware has a default setting to display photos according to the file date. This means slideshows you have meticulously edited and arranged on a PC program will come out extremely scrambled on the ZIP slideshow. The ONLY way to change the order is to go through and click and drag them around on the TV screen with the remote control -- unbearably cumbersome compared to click and drag on a screen. The only other workaround for this is to resave all your image files on the computer, so they share the same file date, at which point they're displayed in order of file name. If you work with lots of images, this can take a long time, and it's a major hassle.  Also: When you place images on a ZIP disk and load them up for the first time, the Fotoshow must imprint each with its video encoding. This takes about 5 seconds per photo -- which can leave you staring at a "please wait" screen for an hour or more if you have a slideshow with several hundred fotos. Only happens the first time you view each pic, but a major hassle.  Overall: A firmware/software update giving users some flexibility -- and especially the ability to organize images through the PC, before plugging into the tv -- would make this an absolutely ideal device.
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This is a great stream capture device that has helped me capture all my moments when I play my games and need them to be recorded. The setup was really easy, and it's been a seamless process of capturing all my video gaming sessions. I definitely  recommend this device for anybody wanting to upload and stream their video gaming sessions.
411155
Works like a charm. "One button" user interface is rather goofy, but it works.
905669
Love this. I bought 5! One for myself and 1 for each of my children. My oldest son has 2 small children and 2 of the others are expecting babies soon. They will all get the QuickCams for Christmas. Soon we can all see "all the babies". How much fun that will be.
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The RemotePoint Global Presenter makes driving a slide show easy. When the device is in my hand, it performs without my having to think about it, allowing me to focus on my audience and what they need to hear and see next. Anyone who's used a joystick mouse on a laptop knows what a dream it is to use once you're used to it. The laser pointer and slide controls are goof proof. My biggest issues with it came when I wasn't using it. Once I slipped it into a pocket during a presentation, and quickly learned not to do that; a little jiggle or bump and the slides would move! I set it down now. And since there's not an on/off switch, I've taken to removing a battery when I'm done so as not to deplete the battery from jiggling around in my travel bag. That said, the unit comes in a cleverly-designed padded case that includes an interior pocket to hold the USB antenna (and that battery!). I'm glad I own it.
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instant on glowing string.  How could one not like this
265200
I am using the screen capture to capture a portion of my screen during an on line tutorial so that I can watch it off line on my Kindle Fire. It works great!  I am running Windows 10. You can size the capture area to any portion of your screen or full screen. You can also adjust the audio input levels (system audio, or microphone, or both). The save format types are numerous and I dare say just about any format you would want. I was skeptical at fist, but if you need a way to record your computer screen or make training videos showing your screen this is the least expensive software I found and works great!