Saturday, September 22, 2007

Photography goes digital



For hundred years now, photography has been synonymous to a light-sensitive emulsion developed in chemicals. Now the trend is digital photography.

The change is the career of photography is an eventuality. Digital cameras have a promiscuous relationship with desktop computers and mobile phones. This will no doubt continue to evolve. More importantly, advantages outweigh their limitations, so more and more photography bugs are swinging to the digital wave.

Easy to process

Digital recording has many advantages. Images are easy to process. You can manage photos by easy printing, editing, manipulation and easy storing. No more worrying about destroyed negatives or storing photos. With digital photography you can use your computer or laptop to store captured images for future use.

No more dark rooms to develop your pictures. It's fast and trouble-free. With digital photography you can simply take photos and if you don't like just delete it and you can retake the shot. That's how convenient digital photography is.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Laptops: Getting Luxury

A truly decked-out notebook is the ideal traveling companion for business and of course for bloggers.

Laptops have gone extreme and styly. Some of the latest models come loaded with giant screens, massive hard drives, dual processors, Blu-ray or HD DVD drives, and even designer lids, if you so desire. Laptops have also become incredibly popular in recent years--major vendors say that portables are on track to outsell desktop PCs by 1 million units this year. Laptop companies must be doing the right things to make their machines so enticing.

Rounded up six of the biggest, baddest laptops programers could find to see which are worth our hard-earned dollars. They tested three desktop replacement models (the Apple MacBook Pro, Dell Inspiron 1720, and HP Pavilion HDX) and three all-purpose laptops (the Lenovo ThinkPad R61, Sony VAIO VGN-FZ180E/B, and Toshiba Satellite A205-S4639). They ran WorldBench 6 Beta 2 benchmark test suite--as well as battery tests--on the notebooks, and they also put them through rigorous hands-on evaluations. In the end the HP notebook came out atop the desktop-replacement category, while the Lenovo portable bested the other all-purpose models.

In addition to looking at some of the most decked-out portables available, they examined the latest mobile broadband options to help consumers stay connected when we're on the road. They also checked up on solid-state technology and how it's changing the way laptops perform. They peeked a bit into the future to see where laptop technology is headed. And finally, they rounded up a number of carry-on bags for protecting our machine and looked at some accessories that can help increase our productivity when we and our notebook are traveling.