Monday, September 20, 2010

Sony HX5V Vs Canon S90

I had been mulling over it for some weeks and decided it was time to buy a really decent camera. Going for a dSLR was an option but budget and the fact that I am not just yet photographically that inclined to make full use of the myriad features available in a dSLR decided to go for a high end camera instead.

There are some really really tough decisions to make when you get into this market as the competitors are very well equipped and the price margin between them is too thin.
This entails that you go find a good website for review of these cameras or find a good trust worthy friend who will help you pick the right one for your that suits your budget.
I am not going to do any of the above two options!!!

I am just going to give you the two best prosumer cameras that i ended up researching a lot and took my time and went for the best deal after deciding which one to buy.

If you are interested in buying the Sony HX5V here is an amazing deal from Amazon.com which you can check out - Sony HX5V with 8GB accessory kit for $359.95

If you want to buy the Canon S90 - Canon S90

Well, I went for the Sony HX5V and I am loving each and every picture it has taken so far.

Have fun with your camera!











Monday, August 30, 2010

Samsung R580

I was just taking a look at this laptop and it looked very impressive.
Wish it camer along with a Blu-Ray drive like its predecessor R480. I have used Macs, Toshiba, Dell and HP laptops now and its only the Macs that have impressed me till now with its form factor, utility and the battery life, although pricing is a huge downer.
If Samsung can come up with a great package with all rounded features then it might be a powerful contender in the market. Asus, Acer and Lenovo I still have not used and I plead ignorance on Gateway, and new line HP so I would love to give them a chance too



Samsung Laptop Review by Cnet

Apple Byte

I am looking forward to the Sep 1 event.

Too many rumors and too many news speculations have gotten me all excited but going by the trend we can expect most of it to be true and some!

Can't wait for the event...and I could indulge in some labor day weekend shopping too :)

Coming Soon!

How P Chidambaram scored a 'Home' run...

Our respected politicians once in a while (read all the time) suffer from what is quite well known as foot in the mouth disease. Not always do you see our politicians manage to upstage our bollywood artists and when they do you know its a headliner and will definitely do well on your box if not at the box office.
Consider this Priyanka Chopra Launches Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 3 or The Union home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, pointed out towards a “new phenomenon” which he called as “saffron terrorism”

Well done Home Minister P Chidambaram, that's a 'Home' Run!

It baffles to see such esteemed politicians as Kapil Sibal, P Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh, Shashi Tharoor et al suffer from the 'FITM" disease. And not just that the statement made by Dr PC is definitely not going to help keep a large section of the people in India happy and much more, this I feel is just divisive politics just played out by an intelligent Harvard graduate.

Any human being with his head stably put on his/her shoulders can tell that terrorism does not have race, religion, culture just like a virus. Its bad and does not help build a healthy society. Making terrorism anything other than that is just trying to work your own hidden agenda - simply put poor politics.

With all this it just makes me wonder are they with such great knowledge and knowledgeable people around still the best candidates to run our country, clearly not!

... And then there are politicians who are happy that their fake profile on Facebook has a huge fan following. Just Great!

Jai Ho!

Friday, August 06, 2010

Very good kindle books for $0.00

Check out the Kindle books collections for $0.00 you get great classics for free and gets delivered wirelessly through Whispersync.
You can also download free kindle app for your mac, pc, ipad, iphone, blackberry et al

in reference to: Amazon.com: kindle app: Kindle Store (view on Google Sidewiki)

Friday, June 18, 2010

Publish your calendars online for Free

If you are the kind who needs to have different calendars to keep track of each and every aspect of their life through calendars and you swear by iCal/Google Calendar then you have got to have an account with ical-mac.com if you don't already have one.

Check it out:
iCal-Mac Free iCal Hosting

No Readability link for this one :P

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Ads and Ad Blockers

It all began with ads on the internet to make the moolah and then came the geniuses who could block those irritating ads to add to their own moolah.
It all seems like a very simple game of cat and mouse.
You find a new area of Business on the internet and make it free to access. It gradually gains its popularity by word of mouth while you sit patiently for the Big Sharks to come and get you.
Then you either be foolish and sell it out or at this time rope in the advertisements and become a millionaire overnight. Seems too simplistic and unreal. Suit yourself!

Coming to my earlier point of Ads and Ad blockers. We have seen that on the internet. You can see on my blog as well. I will officially post the link for Readability by Arc90 on all my blogs unless i completely forget about it, but I also want the advertisers to be on my page and add color until I hone my creative side.

Which brings me to the next mode of Ads and Ad blockers. The iPhone 4.
iAds is coming and it will want to push you to the edge with ads. Then there will be this evil genius who figures it out and blocks it for you for a nominal fee. You dont mind shelling out those peanuts and it so happens that you have paid money to see the ads and paid money to get rid of the ads, while you could not have spent any money at all and still been content!

So ya, next time someone offers you a blue pill or a red pill, ask him to stuff it!

Readability

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Readability

Safari has taken the Readability experiment by Arc90 and included it in their new Safari 5 version and it looks quite impressive.

It also is weird because WWW was in the beginning only a very wordy place with some jazzy snappy features and images here and there. Now its a lot of clutter with difficult to parse through data.
And now we are trying to undo it. Seems like we have come a full circle after all.

Anyways, thought it will be a good idea to share it my blog readers as well.

Follow the link customize it and you will be ready to go in about 5 seconds and read articles on WWW like how it was originally meant to be read :)

Readability

World Cup Fever Is On

It is going to be very interesting to see who takes home the World Cup this time.
I would love it if it were Brazil, don't we all!!!!!

My knowledge and my enthusiasm ebbs only during the football world cup season and it dies down pretty quickly as well. So clamoring up as much information at the last minute as possible to put my money on the right team. Not that I encourage such a practice but what's a game without some risks and high stakes, aye?

Going to be a great season also with the Wimbledon starting off. I would love to see a replay of Federer and Nadal battling out another five setter in the Finale!!!

Buy the HD TV with cable, stock up lots of beer and the La-Z-boy and you are all set :D




2010 FIFA World Cup

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Happy and Glee

I am loving the latest seasons of GLee and can't wait for the season finale. A lot of them guys would give lame reasons like oh my girlfriend forces me to watch it so I watch, well not me. I just love it and no I have not watched High school musicals any of it so I am not biased towards teenage musicals.
This definitely seems to have the story to back it and not some randome numbers fitted in between in the story.
Each episode also revolves around a Theme and they stick by it.

Whoever could deny the genius of Theatricality! and who better than Lady Gaga be the inspiration for it and ofcourse David Bowie!

Brilliant stuff!!!

Search Amazon.com for glee

Search Amazon.com for lady gaga

iPhone 4

So its back! Leaner, Smarter, and of course Better. But its been three years won't you come to expect this from Apple already.

Its always a great opportunity to watch the Keynote by Steve. Its so special to see all
the Apple fanboys around waiting with bated breath to welcome another one of their "babies" into the Family. Although, a milestone this keynote, according to me was not as spectacular as the 2007 one.

The hype is already been created thanks to one really freaky event and some blogs but we have to wait and watch to see the sales of iPhone 4 :)

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