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Digital Photo Frame in an Egg Shape
By Jake Harpin on November 20th, 2007
Now you will see an Egg shape digital photo frame in the market, it is very small, very much beyond your imagination. It looks like an egg and you must be highly surprised when you will know about its length, this photo frame is with a 1.5-inch screen, it looks like a toy but it is not it is not this tiny photo frame has everything which is required in any digital photo frame. It can show pictures and other things on the screen. In this industry where new techniques are growing every day and every manufacturer is trying to offer best to its customers. People may or may not like this egg shaped frame but it’s a matter of like and dislike.
Read: blog.scifi.com
Be Happy With Kodak EasyShare Digital Picture Frame
By Jake Harpin on November 19th, 2007
The 25-cm Kodak EX1011 EasyShare Wi-Fi Digital Picture Frame is the top model that contains photos, music and videos, comes with a wireless remote. Kodak is also presenting an 18-cm frame and two 20-cm models. Kodak says you will soon be able to customize the outside of your frame with optional faceplates including “walnut wood,” “floral glass,” “antique silver” and “whiteboard. In office Maurica MacDonald, marketing manager has kept her 20-centimetre Kodak EasyShare Digital Picture Frame on the desk and enjoys watching her kids playing while she’s at work. She said “It’s the first thing I turn on when I get to work, “Honest to goodness, I love looking at this thing all day. All those memories — the kids tubing in the summer, my daughter’s dance recital, a Christmas party with friends, and the kids just being silly.”
Read: canada.com
Celebrate This Holyday Season with Smilebox
By Jake Harpin on November 16th, 2007
Now people can easily send digital photo greetings, photo books, newsletters and invitations to friends, family and business colleagues with the help of smilebox. Robert Lilienfeld, editor of the ULS says that people purchase around 2.65 billion Christmas cards each year. He said “To help protect our environment, we encourage people to send e-greetings rather than printed holiday cards. If we each sent just one less printed card, we could save 50,000 cubic yards of paper.” Smilebox saves cost of postage and has created a selection of more than 60 original multimedia designs for holidays including holiday photo cards, newsletters, party invitations, wish lists and scrapbooks. Every Week Smilebox is offering more than 550 professionally designed slideshows, greetings, postcards and photo books and is adding many new designs. In 2005 Andrew Wright discovered Smilebox.
Read: biz.yahoo.com
Winners of Balloon Festival Photo Contest
By Jake Harpin on November 15th, 2007
Queensbury, Organizers of the Adirondack Balloon Festival have announced the winners of their annual photo contest, Walter Griskot, executive director of the festival said that around 150 entries were submitted for judging under two group first is adult and second is youth. The adult first-place winner was Andrew Jacovia, of Kew Gardens. First place in the youth category was awarded to Erin Colby, of Levittown. The grand prize winner was Deborah D’Onofrio, lives in West Haven, Conn., who won for her photograph of an inflated, tethered balloon at the Moonglow event held each year in Lake George. Moonglow is held at night, allowing the balloons to glow. Winners can make a choice of the prize on phone. Prizes which will be given to the winners this year are Bogen Manfroto tripod, a luncheon cruise for four adults on the Lac du St. Sacrement, an overnight stay and breakfast for two at the Holiday Inn Turf at Lake George, a cruise for two adults with Shoreline Cruises and an overnight stay and breakfast for two adults at Ramada Inn.
Read: poststar.com
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.
Read: product-reviews.net
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
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.”
Read this entire article on theage.com
