So, most of us are familiar with WI-FI or wireless fidelity connection. We commonly know that a Wi-Fi-enabled device such as a PC, game console, cell phone, MP3 player or PDA can connect to the Internet when within range of a wireless network connected to the Internet. The coverage of one or more interconnected access points are called hotspot. It can comprise an area as small as a single room with wireless-opaque walls or as large as many square miles covered by overlapping access points. Wi-Fi technology has served to set up mesh networks… It is widely used right now.

And now here comes the WIMAX technology or the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access is starting to rule the world. The usage of this kind of access is the same with Wi-Fi the only difference is that you can now have access not only within the hotspot but it can provide a wireless connection in over long distances in different ways. We can now browse internet while more than miles away from hotspot. How cool isn’t it?

Many companies right now are closely examining WiMax for their products. Some of them believed that it may bring competition to lower the price for both home and business customers or bring broadband access to places where it has been economically unavailable. Actually, as I have read information about those new gadgets that are about to launch late this year are mostly WiMax-enabled. It is for sure the biggest assets of their products.

Read additional information here.

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P990i is the first smart phone I was impressed and been wanting for it since we came here in the US. It has a good review and excellent rate. It has small QWERTY keyboard though other said including my husband that the keyboard is a tag small because he has big fingers. Unlike myself, it’s perfect for my little fingers hehehe. My husband loves the stylus a lot specially the hand written recognition. It has a lot of application that is available for downloads. It even has a good review than the new Sony Ericsson P1i. The great thing about this cellphone is it has a WI-FI, you can browse the internet free of charge from your mobile network. All you have to do is include the mac address of your cellphone to your internet router and if the internet wireless connection is public, just like any cafe that offers WI-FI connection, you can just connect right away. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m loving my new digicam Kodak Easyshare z710. Oppss don’t get me wrong, its not that new, like i bought it yesterday. No, its not. We bought it last April 19, yep! yep! tagal na. I just thought of featuring it since I haven’t yet. We decided to buy it since we can’t afford to buy the SLR yet and i can’t wait to have a decent digital cam. Alam nyo namang bulok na yung old digicam ko but i love and keep it since its also a gift from Luvski

Some Reviews:

The Kodak Easyshare Z710 is a stylish bridge-style camera with a massive 10x zoom lens covering 38-380mm, 7.1 megapixel sensor, 2 inch LCD screen, and a full range of creative shooting modes, including fully manual. Other features of the Z710 designed to appeal to the photographer in you include three types of exposure metering, ISO 64-800, a fast aperture of f2.8 at the wide-angle lens setting, and an electronic viewfinder. If all that sounds too complicated, there is also the usual Kodak emphasis on ease of use, with a full range of auto and scene modes for the less experienced user. With a recommended retail price of £279 in the UK, the Kodak Easyshare Z710 attempts to bridge the gap between value and performance and appeal to those who want DSLR-like features without the DLSR price-tag. The Kodak Z710 also offers the added benefits of image preview on the LCD screen, the avoidance of dust problems via the fixed lens and video capability.

Features i like the most:

PASM Mode—get the shot the way you want it
For those times when you feel like flexing a little more creative muscle try the PASM modes. You can experiment with various exposure controls to get the look you are after. Take control of the amount of light coming into the camera by changing the aperture (A), or length of time the shutter stays open (S), or take total exposure control by manually selecting both aperture and shutter speed (M). The PASM modes put you as in charge as you want to be.

Program, aperture priority, shutter priority, and full manual modes

• Program mode (P)—camera sets optimal shutter speed and aperture combination
  Aperture priority mode (A)—you choose aperture, the camera sets shutter speed
  Shutter priority mode (S)—you choose shutter speed, the camera sets aperture
  Manual mode (M)—you choose both the aperture and shutter speed

Manual (M) Controls

Exposure compensation—±2.0 EV in 1/3 EV step increments
Aperture—f/2.8–f/3.7
Shutter speeds—8–1/1000 sec. in 1/3 step increments
ISO sensitivity—auto, 64, 100, 200, 400, 800** (selectable)
Auto focus—TTL multi-zone AF, center zone AF
Exposure metering type—multi-pattern, center-weighted, center spot
White balance—auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, and open shade
Flash mode—auto, off, fill, red-eye reduction

Yep! we got a new media player. It’s good to have credits in BestBuy Coz you can easily return your items without any hesitation. We returned the Philips GoGear my old mp3 player to the store coz every time I connected it to my pc the transfer was very slow maybe because I dropped it when I was in the Philippines :106:

Well, anyways i want you to meet our new media player, “Boomer”, yep that’s his name

Actually, choosing between IPod and Zune definitely gave us a hard time. But we eventually chose Microsoft Zune 30GB since we are Microsoft users and they’re in the same price range. Besides, Ipod is so overrated and aside from that check out the comparison of these two players i got from other sites…

Below are the list of features supported by zune and not Ipod.

1) Landscape video
2) Preloaded Audio and video
3) Built in FM tuner
4) Social networking (and)
5) Custom background.
6) Album art looks great on the Zune

(image from http://www.jakeludington.com/)But two major differences are file sharing and Wi-Fi (aka wireless) support.

Yes, every zune will have the ability to wirelessly share and play songs, videos and pictures with other zunes. Microsoft zune will be able to hold 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video. The said gadgets was released last November 14, 2006.

How great is that huh having a wifi connection? Cool right? :np:

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LOMOgraphy is a profitable business. It makes money on everybody’s desire to be part of the incrowd. To do that, it has to uphold a certain “indie cred”. That’s another way of saying that they’re consciously oblique with the purpose of creating a high threshhold. Go look at their site. It’s clear they’ve made it purposely hard to navigate and understand. Anybody who aspires to be a “true LOMOgrapher” surfs to their site and is supposed not to get it. Then after a while when all becomes clear, he or she feels reinforced, an “insider”, by the accomplishment of understanding their obliqueness. I guess it depends on your point of view whether you call that “marketing” or “manipulation”, but perhaps the two are the same thing.

LOMOgraphy is a profitable business. To keep business going, the Society has to come up with something new every now and then. It started with the LC-A, but the LOMOgraphy Imperium has extended itself to include clothing, online photo services, Chinese cult cameras like the Action Sampler, and parties and get-togethers. More and more, it’s encapsulating their consumers with a pre-fab lifestyle, like your one-stop personality shop.

Damaging in this respect is the way in which they label everything LOMOgraphy, like that St. Petersburg-based factory has anything to do with the business any more. I doubt LOMO minds the exposure, but perhaps they do mind the insinuation that LOMOgraphy is similar to low quality, low tech photography. The whole thing has accentuated the very things LOMO would not like to have accentuated. It’s so respectless to an otherwise very capable company. And now the Society is marketing plastic Chinese cameras under the LOMOgraphy brand name – what’s that all about?

something i have read from this photographer. Sounds interesting isn’t it? Coz everyone of us loves LOMOgraphy :waiting: