New Apps for iPhone

There are two new iPhone Applications that are so helpful available for iphone users.

I've been using Opera Mini in as my mobile browser. I can browse the internet where ever I go especially when there is no wi-fi connection available in the area. Opera Mini simple, fast and easy to use. For anybody who is using opera mini, the app. uses compression methods that allow you to view a full website, yet download noticeably less data. This also serves as great information for those unlucky enough to be stuck on AT&T’s Edge connection, which is notoriously slow with large data transmissions.



Now it is finally available for the iPhone and iPod Touch for a while.



Another new iphone app. is the GetOlympus app. that can allow you to access to company news, user photo gallery, photography tips and information on special offers. Designed by Olympus to provide dynamic interaction with consumers, the App will be updated with new content and features over time.

Features of the App include:

• Olympus Resolution User Gallery – view amazing user-submitted photos and read the "behind the shot" stories for inspiration to capture your own spectacular images.



• Tips – whether you want to learn to take vacation, underwater, panorama or any other memorable photos, tips are available for many different shooting environments. Read Olympus' tips or submit your own!



• Connect With Olympus – visit Olympus social networks, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, with the touch of a button.



• Offers & Promotions – be among the first to know when Olympus is offering a special promotion or cash rebate. Learn about the latest photo contests sponsored by Olympus. Get cash back – trade in your old working digital camera for a new Olympus camera using the Olympus 'Trade In Trade Up' program.



• Favorites – save your favorite photos, tips and news and share them via email with other GetOlympus users.

You can grab these cool app in www.itunes.com/appstore/.

Everyday Companion

I am eagerly learning the basic of photography, and gosh, it wasn't that easy just to handle properly the bulky camera. Today, I practiced how to take photo steadily and yep, its not that easy...

Here are my shots:


This is the one thing I shouldn't forget to bring where ever I go, every single day. It is a part of my life, it is not just for texting an call, it is my clock, calendar, planner... its all-in-one. I've been using Sony Ericsson phone for years, this brand is known for its quality.


This is my Philips Go Gear MP3, this is the only thing that can make me relax while at work. I love music a lot.


This is my laptop, its a Toshiba brand. I bought this 8 months ago. I can't let the day passed without surfing the internet. I even can spend the whole night awake in front of my laptop.

Okay, so you can call me techie. I really had a great interest in gadgets.

Modern History-Making High-Tech Firsts

We enjoy the comfort of technology now, but lets take a look at how does the gadgets we are frequently using today look in its original designs, back in the days...

It was once thought by many that only a handful of computers would be needed in the entire world, that digital cameras could never compete with real film and that cellular phones would forever remain as few, far between and big as bricks. Each of these originals seems awkward and unsophisticated in retrospect, but were pivotal in pioneering essential new directions for future technologies to come.

Here are the Original Gadgets: 5 Modern History-Making High-Tech Firsts

1. The first portable computer - released in the early 1980s and cost surprisingly just under $2000. Still, the Osborne 1 had a screen only a few inches across, weighted dozens of pounds and of course had the processing power of a contemporary digital watch. The lid doubled as a detachable keyboard and the unit itself could be attached to external modems and printers. Though its success was short-lived, the Osborne helped establish that there was a market for mobile computing and competitors quickly rose to claim their own pieces of this new technological pie.

2. The first home gaming console Released in the early 1970s, years before the now-infamous Atari Pong, the Odyssey by Magnavox had (almost) everything we think of as being essential to a modern-day game system – including interchangeable cartridges and a light gun – though it sadly lacked sound, was a strange mix of analog and digital and perhaps most fatal for its sales: the console was widely misunderstood to only work with Magnavox televisions.

3. The first digital camera from the mid-1970s, when Kodak engineer Steven Sasson developed a device essentially from scratch capable of capturing images using an analog-to-digital converter. The result was the size of a small toaster, took over twenty seconds to shoot a photo and had a dismal resolution of one one-hundredth of a megapixel. The initial images were blurry and fuzzy with faint silhouettes and shadowed outlines, the product was never even remotely intended for mass-production or even for sale, but the patent went through for the original digicam.

4. The first cellular phone was released in the early 1980s, decades after Bell Labs first began to probe the possibilities of creating such a device. While Motorola pushed forward with portable phones for cars (that required large amounts of energy to run) Bell slowly built, tested and released the first cellular network to support such mobile communications devices. While Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X – the first commercial hand-held cellular phone – came with a whopping four-thousand-dollar price tag and was over a foot in length, many people still purchased one, perhaps portending that to this very day people will overpay for portable phone service.

5. The first solid state audio player was perhaps destined to take over the world of music players, but no one knew for sure at the time since compact disc-playing devices had such a strong hold on the market. Appearing for the first time for sale in the late 1990s, the MPMan had a few dozen megabytes of memory and was already quite compact (weighing only a few ounces). The public was not sure what to make of this and did not readily adopt this first of its kind, though subsequent versions and competitors began to take off and eventually led to the iPods and other MP3 players we know and love today.

What can we say? Thanks for the new sleek, elegant and real great gadget designs we are using now.

Nikon D60 vs. Canon 450D

I am planning to get myself a SLR, bacause I want to do travel photography.
Although I am new to photography, I am studying about basic and some technical terms about it.
I am not sure what to choose but I have my prospects.

Here are my choices:


Canon 450D

or


Nikon D60,

aside from they are affordable now,
these are perfect for entry level like me, and ergonomically great!
They have almost the same features only they differ in megapixels and in some other features.
I researched and read reviews about this two SLRs but still Im confused.

Nikon D60 was released on 2008, and an upgraded version of D40/D40X.
It is ergonomically designed light weight and easy to grip. Has 10.2megapixels
with superior image quality, Advanced 3-point AF system, which is
efficient and precise autofocus. It can produce rich in color and vibrant
photos and you wont need photo editing.

Canon EOS 450D was released on January 2008, it is a sucessor to EOS 400D.
Has 12.2megapixel CMOS Sensor with 3.5 fts Continous Shooting, and 9-point
AF system. It has a liveView Shooting and Auto Lighting Optimizer.
With high ISO Noise Reduction Function up to ISO 1600.

For now, I'm still reading reviews, like in dp review and in other forums to make sure I will make the right choice.