After spending sizeable amount of time at the mall figuring out which is the best digital camera for us, we finally have enough money to buy for that eye-popping, 7 mega pixel, 10x digital zoom, potable, candy colored, up to 512MB expandable memory of super hi-speed SD memory card and not to mention very portable, (that will be the envy of almost everyone we know).

 We march to the mall armed with our life savings and lotsa pride in ourselves, when we pass by a new display – an eight mega pixel, up to 1G expandable memory, with built it mic and stereo surround, video playback capable, with 22 scenic modes kind-of-camera. And we sigh because the producer of this amazing gadget claims that this is the best digital camera yet out in the market. And so as we always want to have the best, armed with our life savings and a few credit cards, we buy the “best digital camera.” But then again, that doesn’t last too long, after two months or so, there’s another “best digital camera.”

And so it confuses us. What makes a digital camera, the best digital camera?

Well, there are certain factors to consider when looking for the “best digital camera” for us.

MEGAPIXELS.

One of the most important features of digital camera to make it into the best digital camera category is its mega pixel property. The higher the mega pixels the better the actual photograph will come out. A mega pixel is equivalent to one million pixels. The resolution of your image is based upon the mega pixel property of your camera. This means that as you enlarge the picture, you would get more detail and less blurry colors.

LCD SIZE.

The best digital camera will always have a large LCD to help you frame your subject without having to squint to the viewfinder. This is also helpful when reviewing your images, some cameras enable touch up and editing features with its LCD. A 1.5-inch display is average, a 2-inch LCD display is good, but the best LCD size would be 2.5 inches or higher.

ZOOM.

Most digital cameras have both digital and optical zoom. A higher optical zoom is always better than a higher digital zoom. Digital cameras are usually furnished with optical of between 3x to 10x. The better the optical zoom, the higher it climbs up to the best digital camera category.

MEMORY CARD.

Always make sure that your memory card is the right one for your digital camera. There are different types of memory card like the xD, SD, Flash card and the likes. And these types of memory cards go with certain types of digital cameras. of course memory storage is also up there in choosing the best digital cameras. Choose the size of memory that you need, if you’re a photo junkie, you might need more than 32MB. Memory cards can go up to 1G.

The key point to find the best digital camera is to find one that will best fit you and your lifestyle. Don’t just buy the latest or the one that claims they are the best digital cameras out in the market. You wouldn’t want to buy a DSLR and use it with your home activities or family outing and have to lug it around?! Or you don’t want to buy the latest point and shoot camera when you’re serious about being a professional photographer. (Of course, you can use this for starters, but if you’re not a novice photographer anymore, you wouldn’t want to get this kind of camera.)

Actually, the best digital camera is the one that you will enjoy and use. Not the type that you’ll just leave rotting in its box or after a few weeks of usage or so, up there in the attic.

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For those thinking of buying IPOD Touch, here 12 cool subtle things you should know when you get this fantastic device. I call it subtle because – it is a kind of user experience thingy.

1. IPOD Touch Backlight - Bright enough to lit your way in dark areas. If you have firmware 2.0 upgrade with flashlight app you will know what I mean. The keys input pad itself are made within the touch screen – you basically don’t need to find your way through in the dark.
2. To switch to quick music mode – double tap on home key. You can do this while your IPOD is on lock mode. I find this feature very very useful.
3. The song pauses automatically, when you pull off the earphone jack – allowing you to resume back the music when you plug it back.
4. Smooth fade out when you are about to sync with ITunes. Well at least you don’t an annoying windows prompt when you are working with IPOD.
5. There’s lots of application you can get in AppStore. For those who are hesitating in upgrade – PLEASE DO It’s WORTH IT. To switch off an Application, hold home button for 7 seconds. To reboot in case of bug crash or hangs - hold home and sleep button together for a few seconds.
6. To perform a system switch off – hold sleep button for few seconds – a slider will appear to switch off. To turn it on back, hold sleep button for 2 seconds.
7. IPOD Touch Wifi Safari seems to be faster than Iphone mainly because, it is without much of the add on / complex features. Both Iphone and IPOD Touch will have a free wonderful application to remote (App name Remote in AppStore) control Apple TV and ITunes using WIFI.
8. Switching off your wifi while playing game will boost your battery life span far alot more.
9. Hearing music in mp3 doesn’t drain much of your battery. Best to place it in sleep mode by pressing sleep button. The music will still continue to play even the IPOD is in sleep mode. It only turn off the screen. You can quickly toggle sleep mode to lock mode by tapping sleep button twice.
10. IPOD Touch does not have disk mode or what so ever. IPOD have a way of encrypting music with their album art and labels of the music – making application like iphonebrowser unable to locate the music whereabouts.But you can locate, backup and restore music easily using this wonderful software called TouchCopy. Fastest way to get music to your IPOD – is by using automatic cd ripper ability to rip your cd to mp3 and automatically sync to your IPOD Touch. I LOVE THIS FEATURE
11. The screen is scratch proof – I’m serious about it. However, it’s a fingerprint magnet. As for the back metallic surface, is scratchable – but you can remove some of it using those car polisher.
12. You need to convert videos into mp4 format before it can be view in IPOD Touch. You can do this easily by download videora software here.

Last but not least, If you ask IPOD Touch owner, what is the difference between other MP3 / PDA device out there? They’ll tell you almost the same thing “I can’t really describe it…it a user experience and it’s FUN!”

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For some reason, these RM Media HDD Player is rare and only exist in countries like China, Taiwan and Japan. Recently, I been to Taiwan and decided to take a cab to their tech and gadget hub called, Ba De Lu. Finding this device was indeed kinda rare, I have to ask around to get it. Finally, a lady inside a PSP shop was selling it.

Each hdd player comes without hard drive, but even without hard drive, you can still plugin a usb flash drive with files to use it.

Actual device : The RM Media HDD Player box

This is the RM Media Player’s remote used to control the device

Actual TV output : As seen in TV

Actual TV output : Media selection screen

Features of the this devices as follows :-

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  • Accepts USB 2.0 Input storage devices – yeah you can plug in external drive and usb flash drive with videos and the player can detect and read the files from it.
  • Connect to PC via USB 2.0 cable – the device itself can be connected to PC especially when you installed the 2.5 inch SATA Drive.
  • Able to read from MD, SD cards so that, pictures taken by your digital camera can be displayed here in slideshow…weee how convinient. There’s a slot for it.
  • Works on PAL,HD and NTSC, provided with two series of AV cables( yeah the white, red and yellow ones) and comes with a mini remote control.
  • Some RM HDD player (slightly more expensive ones) support dual hdd IDE and SATA, the cheaper ones only support SATA. The one that I bought, can only support SATA.
  • Power cord cable supports 110 – 240 volt, you just need a new adapter for your country. Default ones is for countries like Taiwan and Japan , two small pins.
  • You can opt to purchase with the SATA drive with various size or just buy the device alone without. Last time I bought this device was 2,900 Taiwan Dollar (USD 88.00), kinda affordable
  • Extremely light and you can dissemble it and put it in your luggage with a black bag to cover it. Is best to discard the boxes; make the device look used and old if you are buying from overseas that is, sometimes some nasty custom will just confistacate items which are newly packed for no apparent reason.

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