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The Digital Cameras (Tips for buying affordable and high quality cameras)

Digital camera prices are plummeting. High-end digital-SLRs that used to cost around $1,000 can be found for about half that. Seven – and eight-mega pixel point-and-shoots go for less than $300. But can you get a decent camera for under $150?

Here are some budget buying tips:

1. Megapixels: You want at least 4Megapixels (MP).
2. LCD: Make sure it displays a nice image, even in bright sunlight, and keeps up as you pan or as subjects move.
3. Memory: You’ll pay a premium for xD and memory stick over SD – memory better invested in the camera itself.
4. Digital Zoom: Ignore it. It just crops your images. You’re better off doing that on your PC. Optical Zoom is good.
5. Video: You want i, unless you really schlep your camcorder everywhere. Make sure the camera can record sound.
6. eBay: We found lots of great deals from reputable sellers. If you buy use, get it fairly recent model.

The ASUS QuieTrack Optical Drive with AVRS

Innovative ASUS QuieTrack Optical Drive with Auto Vibration Reducing System (AVRS) Helps to expand multimedia enjoyment

Multimedia and entertainment applications have become almost a daily routine in this age of digital living. Unfortunately the primary means of digital contents are still being played back through disc drives, where motors become the main source of noise inevitabl. With disc rotation speeds in the latest optical drives reaching up to 66m/, it is almost comparable to a 240kms/s hurricane. The fast airflow coupled with motor vibration unfortunately helped to raise operation acoustics up to 50db in most drives. It could get very annoying when you are trying to concentrate on work or listen to some tunes.

The innovative AVRS, one crucial element of the three-part Quietrack technology ensemble from the leading provider of high-performance optical drives – ASUS, is developed exactly with that in mind to dampen drive noise in every conceivable fashion while improves on stability, accessibility and playability.

With rotating machinery as one of the most frequent causes of vibration, AVRS (Auto Vibration Reducing System) can successfully reduce vibration and noise induced by unbalanced mass during rotations. Active ball balancing is a method employed to adjust the state of the rotor and compensate changes that might have occurred. Balls run freely at the transient state and will automatically move to the opposite position when mass become unbalanced. AVRS effectively reduces the vibration caused by the unbalanced disc and most importantly enhances readability and playability.

Noise and Vibration are two major headaches users encounter when using a high-speed drive. AFFM (Airflow Field Modification) is designed to change the uneven airflow field inside the drive. Furthermore, the four unique oval grooves on the upper case reinforce the structural integrity as well as modifying the internal aerodynamics of the turbulent airflo. The overall effect of balanced pressure distribution leads to quieter and more stable operation.

The cutting-edge technology is designed to minimize vibration cause by spindle motors, components and PC cases. The patented DDSSII (Double Dynamic Suspension System II) stabilized the pick-up head both horizontally and vertically, achieving more precise tracking while reducing vibration and noise caused by high-revolution motors.

Incorporating such breakthrough features, enter the latest QuieTrack optical drive offering from ASUS, Aptly named, the QuieTrack series provides a quiet and distraction-free environment. In recent industry reviews by hardware testing websites, noise produced from one competitor DVD-Rom out vocalizes 4 ASUS DVD-Rom, once again proving the effectiveness of QuieTrack.

Combined with high-speed digital audio extraction and CD-audio playback, fast 52X CD and 16X DVD read features, along with the convenience of horizontal and vertical mounting capability, the DVD-E616A2 of the QuieTrack Series delivers superior flexibility and reliable operation that will certainly put all the quibbles to rest.

Employing the innovative QuieTrack technology, the ASUS DVD-E616A2 offers leading-edge multimedia experience with fabulous playback capacities and high-speed data transfer. Built-in advanced technologies provide users of the DVD-E616A2 a quiet, stable and high-performance multimedia environment.

Benefiting from the stability of AVRS, the DVD-E616A2 is capable of fast data transfer speed of 16X DVD and 52X CD-Rom, allowing users to access all CDs, DVD-R/ RW/ ROM, DVD+RW and DVD-Video, DVD-Ram without any compatibility issues.

Apart from the QuieTrack design ingenuity, every component of DVD-E616A2 DVD-Rom drives is selected with providing peace and quiet in mind. With the ASUS DVD-E616A2 DVD-Rom drive featuring AVRS, multimedia universe could finally be expanded to bring about more digital enjoyment.

Pipeline: Surfing in 3D

Does the web have a 3D future? In the go-go nineties there was much hype about VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), which was touted to transform the Web into a series of virtual worlds. That didn’t quite happen, but now there are renewed efforts to deliver compelling 3D Web experiences. You can try any of three recently overhauled browsers for a sample of how it works: 3B, Browse 3D or SphereXPlorer. Also keep an eye out for 3D Chat rooms such as 3D planets.

Meanwhile, an XML format called X3D is advancing, and let’s not forget about Microsoft Windows Vista. Vista’s Direct X 10 technology, the Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) will make 3D application programming easy.

Touring the Web in a 3D browser is very different from standard Web surfing. For example, the 3B browser lets you stroll down virtual hallways – similar to the halls seen in first-person shooter games. You can visit 3D stores, shop for clothes or other items or click on a World Cup page to enter the virtual stadium filled with pages belonging to professional soccer players. You can also create your own 3D “village” using templated tools.

The Browse3D browser “was born out of frustration with browsing the web in a single window,” says Robert Randa, company CEO. It lets you view several Web pages at once.

The ultimate experience on a Web site. In the near future, we may see Web sites split in half—portions of the Web site will be in traditional Web technology and other portions will provide a richer 3D experience for users of Windows XP and Vista.

Aryty and Friendster Come up with A-List

Aryty and Friendster are teaming up to make it easier than ever to get cellular loads from friends and family in the U.S.A. and Canada.

Aryty, pronouced ‘all righty’ launched its SMS-based, overseas load service to rave reviews. The service saves your loved ones time and money when they want to send loads back home. Aryty makes it possible to transfer load to any major carrier in the Philippines from the Internet or via text messaging.

Less than a month after the groundbreaking launch of the Aryty service, the New York-based company is following up with a major advance in its sending capabilities, bringing load transfer right to your Friendster page. It’s called the Aryty A-List, and it’s a brilliant partnership between Aryty and Friendster.

The Aryty A-List is a free and customizable module that goes right in your Friendster page. Tailor-fit your A-List module to refect your personal style. It’s a great way to ask for a load from friends abroad. The Aryty A-List puts powerful tools in a simple framework so you can get load fast.

Visit www.aryty.com.ph to learn more, and get your own A-list.

Dealing with Spammers and Spambots

Spam! One of the most annoying, time consuming things we are always subjected to when we check our daily emails. Why do we get them and how do we stop them from sending us spam?

This is really a tough question since all we can do is report them to whoever our email service provider is and pray that we may find our inbox spam-free someday. If  you use a desktop email client such as Outlook, Microsoft has a feature that flags junk mail and either puts them in a junk folder or deletes them permanently. Any of these solutions are actually limited to managing your email when they get to you instead of managing them when they get to the server. Messages can be blocked as they are received by the server but it seems that it’s a bit risky when some legitimate email gets thrown in by mistake.

Well, spammers have moved on and have found other venues to dump their junk messages in. I once had a blog which was open to the public where they could post their comments without having to register. Although, in an ideal world, this would have been great, the fact that it was open to anonymous posters.

So far the simplest deterrents for spambots registration and posting are the implementation of Visual Confirmation during registration, and account activation over email. If they can’t get pass the visual confirmation and the email activation, they won’t be able to post anything anyway.

Imminent Death for irDA ports

There are fewer devices nowadays which sport the long-trusted IrDA port. Some have decided to drop the feature in favor of Bluetooth. HTC, the leading OEM for Windows Mobile powered devices, has recently announced that they will be dropping the IrDA port for the next wave devices.

Infrared is still the quickest and most reliable means of beaming business cards or files between mobile phones and PDAs. Bluetooth, although more advanced, is still clumsy and too time consuming.

Windows Vista and Windows Mobile

If you’ve been able to test Windows Vista and you own a Windows Mobile device, yo might have noticed that you could synchronized your Windows Mobile device right away without having to install anything extra. Well, things have change for RCI of Windows Vista. Apparently, all that will be left when Windows Vista ships is the synchronization of digital media, photos and files. When Vista ships and you need to synchronized your Windows Mobile device to it, you will have to connect to the Windows Update to download the necessary components to synchronized the rest of the information such as Contacts, Calendar, Inbox and Tasks. It’s not a big deal really, but it would have been a nice touch if Vista would be synch-ready out of the box.

MP3 Players

You’re probably wondering if portable music players will go to the way of the audio cassette, thanks to increasingly music-capable cell phones. Not quite. Dedicated audio players are far from obsolete.

MP3 Players fall into two main categories: Hard Drive and Flash Memory. Hard Drive players range from 3GB to 100GB, though most fall in the 8GB to 30GB range. Some newer flash players – one example is the SanDisk Sansa e270, which takes a swipe at the iPod with SanDisk’s iSheep campaign (www.idont.com) – currently top out at 6GB. But most players fall in the 512MB to 4GB range.

Chipsets are also evolving, especially in the flash player space. Though today’s flash players now play black video, they currently max out at 15 frames per second. Manufacturers may try to beef up their chipsets to handle 30-fps video, which would help smooth the jerkiness of video at 15fps, but watching video on a tiny 1.5inch screen is still not ideal.

Hard drive players used to have better features (and more of them) than Flash players, but that’s no longer the case. Even the tiniest Flash players now include FM tuners, voice/FM/line-in recording and photo viewing. A few players – both Flash and Hard drive – also have media card slots, giving you potentially unlimited storage.

Which sounds better? Two important factors are frequently response and output power. In testing, I generally find that both Flash and Hard drive players have flat frequency responses except in the bass, where they both usually have some weakness. Headphones, however, significantly influence how a player sounds. The earbud bundled with most players are terrible and I almost always recommend upgrading.

Today’s MP3 players include a bewildering variety of displays. OLED screens are now fairly common, but while they save battery life and have perfect viewing angles, they aren’t nearly as high resolution as LCDs.

Screen size seems to have settled down to roughly 1.5inches for Flash players and 2.5inches for Hard drive players. Photos and very short video clips are fine on the smallest screens, but longer clips and TV shows are definitely more watchable on 2.5inches.

Another important consideration is whether your player supports your music subscription service: iPods work only with the iTunes Music Store and Players that carry the Microsoft PlaysForSure logo work (or should work) with download and subscription services like MTV’s Urge, Napster, and Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

Sometime next year we’re going to see even more features integrated into MP3 Players, such as Bluetooth headphone support, more sophisticated recording capabilities and new interfaces like the one Apple is rumored to be developing for the iPod Wireless transfer is available via devices such as the MusicGremlin MG1000, but will be much more prevalent. And as Flash memory prices drop, we’ll see greater capacities at lower prices, which will eventually spell the end of low-capacity (8GB less) hard drive players.

COOL MUSIC LINKS:

garageband.com

pandora.com

The Core 2 Duo Processors

Intel corporation unveiled Intel Core 2 Duo processors for consumer and business desktop and laptop PCs and workstations. The highly-anticipated processor family already has a very broad support with more than 550 customer system designs underway – the most in Intel’s history.

The Intel Core 2 Duo processors are built in several of the world’s most advanced, high-volume output manufacturing facilities using Intel’s leading 65-nanometer silicon process technology. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor family consists of five desktop PC processors tailored for business, home and enthusiast users, such as high-end gamers and five mobile lifestyle. Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based workstations will also deliver industry leading performance for such areas as design, content, creation and technical computing.

Consumers and businesses will have the option to purchase Intel Core 2 Duo processors as part of Intel’s premiere market -focused platforms, which are made up of Intel hardware and software technologies tailored to specific computing needs, including Intel vPro technology for businesses, Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology for laptops and Intel Viiv technology for home.

Many of the products will also offer a selection of Intel-designed and integrated technologies such as Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel Active Management Technology that make the PC more secure and manageable. The new processors can be paired with the Intel 975X, 965 and Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset family.

Initial Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based systems are now available. The price of desktop processors ranges from $183 to $999.