Ho-hum, another 2Gb SD card, but hang on a minute, this one is different. The Eye-Fi Explore is a Wi-FI memory card. So what, you might be asking, SD Wi-Fi cards are nothing new, the one in my PDA must be at least 3 years old, but there is more. This is a fully self-contained wireless device, so it can be used in any SD compatible camera, and used to beam images across a network to a PC, printer or uploaded to the Internet. In other words the camera doesn’t need to be a special wireless-capable model. All you have to do is pop the card into your PC to activate and configure it then put it into the camera and while it is on it automatically sends image to any wi-fi device in range (around 3 – 5 metres). There’s an added bonus, it uses a system called Geotagging to label or identify where the picture was taken. Read the rest of this entry »
Google’s newly launched web browser Chrome is all set to shake the web browser industry. On the first look and it looks like the later the better quote fits up for Google Chrome. Chrome has borrowed and acquired most of the features from Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer to emerge as a hybrid and fast browser.
You can clearly see in the screen shot below that Google Chrome has the dials feature which has been taken up from Opera. Another thing by launching its own web browser by Google means a complete dominance over the Internet. Google has it own search engine, its own social network etc. and at last its own browser Chrome to integrate all its services at one place. Read the rest of this entry »
Kodak, once the leading light in the photography biz were famously caught by surprise by the speed at which digital photography took. Despite launching some useful digicams, it has never really come close to regaining its former status. Now, however, they’re leading the way once again, this time with the world’s first consumer photo frame using OLED or Organic Light Emitting Diode technology.
OLEDs, in case you didn’t know, are super thin, and unlike LCDs, do not rely on a backlight. They also offer superior contrast ratios and although not a factor in this application, can be made to be flexible. The display used in this frame is 7.6 inches (measured diagonally); it’s a widescreen format with 800 x 480 pixel resolution and it boasts a contrast ratio of 30,000:1. The viewing angle – another OLED advantage – is 180 degrees. Read the rest of this entry »
I know there is a lot of guys out there who are really fascinated by the people down radio show and always wish to have one, including me. Well, now you can get your own radio show and your own radio station.
This tutorial required a bit of your computer skills to setup your radio station.
To begin with, you need ShoutCast, Winamp, and a good internet connection to host your radio station.
First, get you need Winamp, it’s a free software, you can easily download it here. Then get Shoutcast D.N.A.S. You also need Shoutcast DSP plug-in for Winamp. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Word is still the only game in town when it comes to word processing, though on a personal note I have to say that most recent versions are horrible and until MS comes up with something better I’m going to stick to my trusty W2000. Which is just as well because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to use Repair My Word, a freeware program that only works with older versions, up to W2003. Basically it’s a data recovery program dedicated to Word document files. It’s the sort of thing you’d wished you had when you last saw the dreaded message ‘Word cannot open the document’ or ‘The document name or path is not valid’, or worst of all, all you see is a screen full of garbage. Simply run the application, navigate to the iffy file, open it and the program will do its best to sort it out, and if it succeeds it can be re-saved as a bone-fide Word document. Read the rest of this entry »
Ho-hum, another 2Gb SD card, but hang on a minute, this one is different. The Eye-Fi Explore is a Wi-FI memory card. So what, you might be asking, SD Wi-Fi cards are nothing new, the one in my PDA must be at least 3 years old, but there is more. This is a fully self-contained wireless device, so it can be used in any SD compatible camera, and used to beam images across a network to a PC, printer or uploaded to the Internet. In other words the camera doesn’t need to be a special wireless-capable model. All you have to do is pop the card into your PC to activate and configure it then put it into the camera and while it is on it automatically sends image to any wi-fi device in range (around 3 – 5 metres). There’s an added bonus, it uses a system called Geotagging to label or identify where the picture was taken. Read the rest of this entry »
