A Picture of Resilience

Taken at VMC, Victorias City

This is my entry to Techie She’s Lucky Blogger Weekly Giveaways Week No. 4. This week’s prize is one year free blog hosting sponsored by Belleverlasting of “Belleverlasting: My Small Blended Place in the World Wide Web”Aside from enjoying the privilege of my chosen profession (soon), top on the list is my passion to photography. Photography is something that can bring joy to me even in my rainy days. It brings out the creativity within and out speak your passion, style and definition through a desired master piece, genre and virtuoso. It's simply amazing how a single click of your finger can capture an image that will leave you a picture of your mood and passion and let me share it to my friends through the world wide web. It is also the web that drives me to crave of owning a camera, because it helps me appreciate the beauty of picture presented in the web.It's my biggest ambition to own a professional camera someday that will be my tool of fulfilling my dreams. It's been an integral part of our lives to leave memories of the past and something to look back in the near future.

So last March 2011, before I savor my special moment of my college life; my GRADUATION, I bought a canon digital camera to significantly take the bright color of my success. The PowerShot A495 is the new entry-level model in Canon’s extensive range of compact digital cameras. Priced at £119.99 / $129.99, the A495 features a 10 megapixel sensor, 3.3x optical zoom lens with a focal length of 37-122mm, DIGIC III image processing engine and a 2.5-inch LCD screen. Canon’s new Smart Auto mode automatically recognises shooting conditions from 18 different shooting scenes and applies the optimum picture settings required to get the perfect shot, while the A495 also boasts i-Contrast technology to help ensure that lighter and darker areas are captured in equal detail. Low Light, Super Vivid & Poster Effect scene modes make their debut, plus Face Detection, Motion Detection and Automatic Red-Eye Correction technologies are included. Powered by AA batteries and compatible with SDHC and SDXC memory cards, the Canon Powershot A495 is available in silver, red and blue. Thanks to the web for these information, though.

 

Somehow, though it's not a professional camera yet, it gives me now a joy and happiness.

Apple iPad Tablet Officially Announced

Now, after all that speculation, it’s here: The Apple iPad. Jobs said that there would be no point in creating a device that sits between a smartphone and a laptop unless it handled certain tasks better than both. He says it does.What is it? Essentially a mix between a giant iPhone and a shrunken MacBook, the iPad - announced by Steve Jobs himself at the Apple event in San Francisco this evening - is a 9.7-inch, 0.5-inch thin tablet rocking a full HD (incredibly hi-res) touchscreen interface with multi-touch, a Wi-Fi and 3G connected, a bespoke OS comparable to the iPhone and a penchant for gaming and apps. Inside, there's a super slick 1Ghz Apple A4 processor, but there doesn't appear to be support for multi-tasking with different apps.

The iPad's screen

The iPad, a lean mean gaming machine.

Apps from the iPhone can be run in miniature on the screen, or employ "pixel doubling" to make them full screen. Bespoke iPad games look amazing, and make full use of multitouch. E-book reading is handled by a new program called iBook, which comes with its own iBook Store (very similar to iTunes).

Font size, page turning and zooming are all controlled by pinching and swiping.It’s got an intuitive pop-up touch keyboard and supports the same kind of gestures as the iPhone, plus boasts an accelerometer that lets you hold the device anyway you see fit. The iTunes app is akin to what you’d see on a computer than iPhone, and the iPad has 16 - 64GB storage.

Battery life? It'll stay alive for a month in standby mode. If that onscreen keyboard isn't for you, there's a keyboard docking accessory that'll charge the unit and also prop it up for watching movies.Impressively, there's a version of iWork on the iPad that makes use of both the hi-res screen and the multi-touch gesturing.

The accelerometer also gets a look in, as charts on Numbers and Keynote can be viewed in any direction.Jobs himself says of the iPad that it is "so much more capable than a laptop.”And the price? A 250mb of data per-month 3G data plan comes in at $14.99 a month. An unlimited plan is $29.99. These can be turned on and bought on a month-by-month basis on the iPad itself. The unit is $499 in the States for the non-3G 16GB model.

The 64GB, 3G model will go for $829, with a further 4 models in between. UK pricing is yet to be confirmed, as it won't be out over here until June. Unlocked iPads can be bought from the US in 60 days time.So there we have it; months of fevered speculation ended in one foul swoop by the Cupertino boys and the iPad announcement. "So iPad," Jobs says.

"It's phenomenal. Email is fantastic, best device for photos, great for music, great for video. It runs almost all of the 140k apps on the app store, as well as a whole new generation of apps."Credit: T3.com