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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Choosing a Photo Printer

5 comments 8:20 PM Posted by Nightfall
Labels: photo printers, printers

My current printer is an HP 1340 printer, although it can perform well as my all around printer, I bought a new printer especially dedicated for printing my photos. When I bought the printer I have come up with a simple guide when choosing a printer.

Resolution
First and foremost, the most important criteria when choosing a printer is the resolution measured in dpi (or dot per inch). The dpi will determine the quality of the prints. Choose a printer that can produce photo quality prints. Typical photo printers has a resolution of about 2400 x 1200 and if your looking for the best resolution there are printers out there that can have a maximum resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi. If possible compare the print output of the printer and those printed from a photo lab.

Inks
Ordinarily printers, typically has 3 ink cartridges, but if you want your photos to really come out with those near photo quality, you can choose photo printers that have more that 3 ink cartridges, When choosing a photo printer, the more ink cartridge the better. You may also take into account the ease of replacing the inks, the price and the availability. One other thing to consider is, if the printer you are buying can take 3rd party ink especially if you are price conscious. When all know that original printer inks are very expensive.

Photo Paper
Photo printer manufacturers usually produced their own photo papers. But there are also third party manufacturers of photo papers. You should take into account the availability of third party photo papers. This may save money for you in the long run.

Customer Reviews
To further help you in choosing the right printer, you may also check out online reviews and online shops that cater to printers. This way, you may get a feel of what others have experienced with their photo printers. During my hunt for a photo printer I seen one printer from HP, the HP Photosmart C4650, its an all-in-one printer with Wifi connectivity. Looks great, though I don’t need the extra feature such as the copier and scanner but it is still a great printer. You can check it out here.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Viddler, A New Experience in Video Streaming

2 comments 10:58 AM Posted by Nightfall
Labels: viddler, viddler player, video streaming

Youtube as we know is the largest and most popular free video hosting service on the net today. As its popularity skyrockets, lots of copycats begin to emerge making it a crowded market for video streaming. Unless a new comer on this crowded market offers a unique and engaging experience to its users, it’s virtually impossible for it to get notice. So in this crowded place, a newcomer plans to emerge offering a unique and different business strategy. This comes in the form of Viddler.

What is Viddler?
Viddler is a video streaming hosting service that offers a unique experience to its users. In a nutshell Viddler is a unique web application that enables its users to upload high quality video and share it easily with others. This is done right inside the user's web browser with no additional software required. The main target market of Viddler is businesses that wish to share videos and present their business to their prospective customers. So in essence Viddler is an online video for business. There are three business accounts being offered by Viddler. These are the Start-Up, Basic, Plus, and the Enterprise account that offers different packages to business users. The main difference of this account is storage capacity and bandwidth. Although it primarily targets businesses, individuals can also use Viddler for free. Viddler is free for personal use. A partner program is also offered to those who have unique contents and wants to monetize them.

Registration
Making an account with Viddler is quite a breeze. For personal use, you just have to fill up a form with a user name password and email address then click submits and that’s it. After registering, they will send you a confirmation email. Once you have confirmed your registration, you can now log in to your newly created account and you’re now ready to view and upload videos.

The Viddler Video Player
What is unique about its player, one may ask. For one the VIddler player is a fully customizable streaming video player that users can adapt to their needs. They can adapt it to whatever suits their needs. Some of its unique features include the following
• In video tagging/commenting/video commenting
• Post-roll screen
• Optional Advertising
• Advertising can be added
• Custom color scheme
• Custom logo & permalink
• Easy sharing and embedding

In Summary
Viddler is one unique video sharing site that offers a fully customizable video player that caters to all users need. If you want to experience something new in video streaming you should take a look at Viddler and try it.

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.2

7 comments 2:50 PM Posted by Nightfall
Labels: apple, Mac OSX

Apple has just release a new update the Mac OS X 10.6.2. This is the second maintenance update for its Snow Leopard. Together with this release are some bug fixes and security updates. The updates can be downloaded on Apple's Download page.

Some of the issues being addressed by the updates includes the following:

an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly

a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites

Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts

a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user

issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers

the reliability of menu extras

an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture

an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server

Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing

a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book

an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet

Safari plug-in reliability

general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk

an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account

[via MacRumors]

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Monday, October 19, 2009

U2 Concert Live at YouTube

0 comments 8:37 PM Posted by Nightfall
Labels: Youtube

U2's upcoming concert to be held at Pasadena Rose Bowl in California will be streamed live at YouTube. This was announced last September 2009. The live streaming broadcast will be seen in at least 16 countries namely Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain and the United States.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

JVC Launches New HD Everio Memory Camera

3 comments 4:11 PM Posted by Nightfall
Labels: Camcorder, JVC

JVC releases the HD Everio GZ-HM400, a full HD video camera with 10.3 megapixel of CCD sensor. It uses the KONICA MINOLTA HD LENS for capturing high resolution videos and still photos. Still photos are captured using the CCD sensor that features a Bayer Array RGB Color Filter with 9 megapixels effective resolution providing crisp and clear images. It also features recording of up to 600 fps, making it possible to capture high speed events such as car racing and sports events flawlessly. For storage it uses a 32 GB internal memory and an external slot that accept an SD/SDHC card for expansion.