| Komputer Klinic: Find the right Christmas gifts for photo buffs
Thanks to digital cameras, more people than ever are interested in photography. You probably have a photo enthusiast or budding photographer on your Christmas list. Knowing what to buy photo buffs is tricky. You may be tempted to purchase lenses, flashes or other expensive gear. Photographers are very particular. Unless youre an expert, skip these things. Accessories such as batteries, memory cards and camera cases will be welcome. But use some imagination. Here are some ideas to get you going: Make the camera work wirelessly. Some newer cameras feature Wi-Fi. This lets owners transfer photos to a computer wirelessly. Photos can also be uploaded to Web sites. Likewise, youll find wireless transmitters for high-end cameras from Canon and Nikon.
HP Photosmart C7180 multifunction printer
The HP Photosmart C7180 is a six-ink, all-in-one photo inkjet printer with built-in scanner, copier, and fax machine. With just about every imaginable connection option and feature, the C7180 isn't designed for bargain hunters, but it is a good choice for users who want a plethora of features in one box. Setup The C7180's streamlined design makes this unit very user-friendly right out of the box. Memory card readers supporting most types of digital camera cards are conveniently located on the unit's right-hand corner near the paper tray. Copying, scanning, faxing, and photo-printing functions are within arm's reach on the C7180's sleekly designed control panel, and menus are easy to navigate and read thanks to the large 3.6-inch LCD. When setting up the printer, one of the first decisions you'll face is choosing from the myriad connection options.
Digital Camera: Digitalizing the world!
Each one of us wants to own a digital camera and the market is also flooding with numerous manufacturers. Canon A500 is surely making a great deal. Digital Cameras are liked by almost everyone. Defined as the camera that takes videos or still photographs or both, digitally by recording images on a light-sensitive sensors. Today, the market is flooding with different types of digital cameras from different companies. These digital cameras are incorporated into many devices ranging from PDAs and Mobile phones to vehicles. Canon's power shot A550 camera is one camera which is making camera lovers glued to this digital magic. The A550 is one of the entry-level cameras in Canon's A-series. It adds a larger LCD and more mega pixels of resolution. Other features on the camera include a 4X optical zoom lens, point-and-shoot operations, a VGA movie mode, and SDHC memory cards.
Takahashi: Dress this cell phone according to mood
Dov Moran has a bright idea for the coming age where fashion and electronics will become intertwined. When you want a new look for an MP3 music player, put a new skin on it. If you want your phone to play cool videos, give it a jacket. And when you want to turn that phone into an alarm clock, find it a mate. Moran is chief executive of modu, an Israeli company that has created a tiny cell phone with a built-in flash memory music player that is highly modular. When you want to change the look and feel of the device, you simply slide it into another device. It's like adding a memory chip card, except it changes the identity of the new device. With it, you can change your electronic gear in chameleon fashion to suit your mood. You can, for instance, take your little modu phone and slide it into a digital camera.
Expo Notes: Wi-Fi memory card adds iPhoto support
Editor's Note: All this week, Macworld editors will report from the Macworld Expo show floor on meetings with Mac developers, new product announcements, and anything else that catches their eye. Tired of hunting down your camera cable or memory card reader every time you need to download photos from your digital camera? If you have a wireless network set up, the $100 Eye-Fi Card by Eye-Fi lets you download your photos without any strings attached. .
Okoker Removable Data Recovery 4.5
Okoker Removable Data Recovery is a data recovery tool utility, designed to recover all the deleted files and directories. It allows you to recover files that have been deleted from USB Driver, Digital camera, DV, iPod. It will help you to recover data residing on removable disks formatted in any of the following file systems: FAT 12/16/32,scan and recover all the lost data from your computer system, DV, digital camera, SD/miniSD/microSD card, MMC/RS-MMC card, xD-Picture card and µ card.,USB drives, ZIP disks, CompactFlash cards, SmartMedia, and Memory Sticks. Specific recovery support for 500 file types, including: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, IncrediMail, databases, AutoCAD, Microsoft Money, SQL, MYOB, photos, MPEG, AVI, WMV, WAV and MP3 files. Version 4.5 is a bug fixing release.
Xacti HD1a HD camcorder adds wide display, more
Sanyo on Thursday introduced the Xacti HD1a, a compact digital media camera that records both still pictures and digital video. It does it all onto an SD flash memory card. The Xacti HD1a is coming in September for $699.99. The Xacti HD1a records video in 720p and grabs 5.1 megapixel still images. Because it uses SD cards instead of bulky tapes or optical media, it's much more compact than other camcorders. It uses a 10x optical zoom lens and 2.2-inch LCD display. New features in the HD1a include a 16:9 widescreen still picture mode, in-camera video editing, a 30 frames-per-second 320 x 240 MPEG-4 pixel video recording mode called “Web-SHQ," optimized for the video iPod. The 16:9 still image mode grabs 3.8 megapixel images in the same wide-screen format as the Xacti HD1's digital videos.
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