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A Digital Photo Frame That Speaks Up
By Jake Harpin on November 13th, 2007
Have you ever heard of talking digital photo frame? Now you can add words or whatever you want to say to the sensitive talking photo frame. At the present time digital photo frames are selling like hot cakes, you will find photo frame in every home, office and other places, people love to keep their beloved ones near in front of them. Just imagine if your photo frame becomes talking photo frame, what you have to do is to press record button which is on the back of the digital frame then speak into the microphone and then touch the place on your picture that you want to link with the recording. After recording the message they will play back every time that place on the photo is touched. There is a option to replace the message if you want to add a new one, you just need to erase the previous message and record the new one, as simple as that.
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HP Will Now Concentrate On Print 2.0
By Jake Harpin on November 12th, 2007
Now the buyers will not see any new digital camera by HP because the company will not launch any digital camera in the market. Hewlett-Packard has pronounced that they no longer plan to manufacture, distribute and design their digital cameras, the company wants to focus more on its Print 2.0, home photo printing and online photo services. On the other hand HP declared that they will prefer to sell the cameras under its own brand and the company is finding a manufacturer who will provide license to the design and distribute it. HP also said that they will be selling digital cameras till the end of 2007 and hoping to have the partnership arrangement in place by first half of 2008. HP is making preparation to improve its Web-based printing services and tools for digital content creation.
Read: techgadgets.in
Canon U.S.A. Launched Powershot G9 High-End Camera
By Jake Harpin on November 10th, 2007
Canon U.S.A. has launched Powershot G9 Camera combines Creative Control with Compact Convenience. This camera is full of features of the advanced photographic capabilities of a high-end digital SLR camera, containing latest and most advanced technology. Just try it once and you will go crazy, this light weighted camera can be purchased at very reasonable prices. Yuichi Ishizuka, senior vice president and general manager, Consumer Imaging Group, Canon U.S.A said “The PowerShot G9 digital camera brings our highest levels of performance and usability to the G-series, by combining RAW Mode with our other key technologies in this camera, we’re providing a high-performing and affordable option to advanced photo enthusiasts who want the creative power of a Digital SLR in a smaller body form.” The extended zoom range of the PowerShot G9 camera makes optical image stabilization (OIS) essential.
Read: news.thomasnet.com
A School Teacher Sherifa’s Life Story
By Jake Harpin on November 6th, 2007
Thirty years old Sherifa Abdel Salam lives in EI Saba Abar (a village near Ismailia) in north eastern Egypt with her husband and three daughters. She is working as a science teacher at a primary school in the village; earning 340 Egyptian pounds a week. She loves teaching her job but sometimes she shout, punish and even physically hurt the students because she has to deal with different and large number of students every day. Her school is only ten minutes walk from her home, after reaching home Sherifa cooks lunch for her husband who is working as a driver; She also helps her mother-in-law in the kitchen. Sherifa takes a half-hour break from school for shopping; she says “After the school day, I don’t have time for shopping, I head home directly, to do the rest of the housework.”
Read: BBC News
Personalized Photo Book is very popular
By Jake Harpin on November 2nd, 2007
Verity Batchelder, Snapfish Australia manager says personalized photo books are very accepted products in the US and UK, and predicts they will take off quickly in Australia as more people become aware of them. “One of the challenges is getting the books into people’s hands,” she says. “Some people think it is an album that you literally insert photos into, but it’s actually more like a coffee-table book where the photos are printed on the pages themselves. It’s much more sophisticated and flexible than a standard photo album.” After Joining Snapfish site the Photographers can place an order for a photo book after joining the Snapfish site and upload the pictures.
Read this entire article on news.com.au
What Are Digital Picture Frames?
By Jake Harpin on November 2nd, 2007
The era of IT, information technology, not only changed the phase of the sort of photography we kind of understood, it has now also modernized the display of photos on wooden or metal frames. Can you imagine that you can now display digital photos on special LCD monitor that can act as an electronic photo frame instead?
Since this is actually a sort of computer-like and monitor-type picture frame it can be used like a TV screen to display one photo, show several photos and view them like a slide show and also to watch movies from it. As Digital Picture Frame is basically a computerized monitor it permits you to connect the frame to the internet for downloading or sending digital pictures through the use of modem. It is just unbelievable that such a small monitor frame that functions like a CPU (central processing unit) of a computer system still have insertion point for a compatible memory card to view digital photo like a slideshow.
Some of these high tech electronic frames that are compatible with all sorts of digital camera and have memory for JPEG file, including JPEG motion file, can hold up to 12 megapixels of image. Higher models have room for showing 30 to 80 pictures with the allowance for set time between each picture displayed. Sophisticated Digital Picture Frame models can even display movies previously recorded from digital movie camera.
Digital Picture Frame basically consists of MF-810 deluxe stereo audio and MemoryFrame™ system unit with storage space for 32 to 80 pictures. The frame that has multi-function control buttons, friendly-user on-screen menu system plus auto scaling device for fitting big pictures on a smaller-sized screen of the frame, comes supported by vertical or horizontal stand like for any old-fashion wooden photo frame. Such computerized frame has room, compatibly, for other high tech gadgets, viz.
MemoryStick memory cards with software utility CD-ROM, USB cables, Flash (CF), SmartMedia (SM), SecureDigital (SD), USB cameras, USB card-readers with thumbnails available, manual imaging, forwarding, pause/reverse buttons and 11 transition and display buttons, including AC power adapters with cable.
To be in the forefront of being the only exceptional few to own such a high-priced high tech picture frame for displaying digital pictures or movies, you will have to sacrifice your hard-earned money for its value. For that you own the convenience of displaying the device anywhere you fancy, e.g. beside the bed, wall, lounge or corridor area, on a bookshelf, et cetera. These can act like photo albums and instead of having to collect so many photo albums over the years, you save space with only one or just a few frames to show as many pictures as you want to anyone.
Eddie McGuire the host of who wants to be a Millionaire
By Jake Harpin on November 1st, 2007
Eddie McGuire the host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, former host of The Footy Show and former chief executive of the Nine Network has just celebrated 25 years in television. He is forty three years old, energetic and full of ideas. McGuire says “I laugh at myself when I see the fire and the determination in my eyes. I didn’t know it at the time but now I can see how fired up I was. I was very well-mannered and respectful but this was very important to me, and you can see the optimism and even the physical strength of youth there, but you can also see the vulnerability. In my mind, you got one chance. That was it.”
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