Live View – Yes or No?

It all started when compact digital cameras dispensed with the viewfinder. Instead of the viewfinder, manufacturers used the LCD screen as a viewfinder. The ability to pre-view, compose and execute a shot using the LCD screen is known as ‘Live View’. Initially, Live view was viewed as a gimmick. However, manufacturers like Panasonic quickly saw the opportunity offered by Live View and supported it with important feature viz. image stabilization. It is obvious that when the camera was held away from the eye, shake would be a problem. By incorporating image stabilization in all their cameras, Panasonic ensured that the viewfinder in compact cameras was not missed. Instead, R&D efforts were put into make the LCD monitor bigger, brighter and to display more exposure information. You can see that results for yourself in today’s digital cameras and they have also brought in touch screen facilities.

Microsoft Zune – Review

Look: 9; the colors are foggyish Feel: 9; plastic doesn't scratch easily, comfortable
Weight: 8; heavier than I expected
Screen: 10; its bright big and awesome!
Sound Quality: 10; sounds great...better than iPod
Battery: 10; so far better than iPod
Navigation/Menu Set-Up: 9; the d-pad takes some adjustment time but its great!
Wi-Fi Sharing: N/A; haven't found anyone to share w/ yet.
Connectivity to X360: 9; this is one of the coolest features! It works great, sounds great, it’s FAST! Some files don't work.

OVERALL: 9/10

Complete Guide to Digital Photography

The book is divided into 7 parts, detailing the basics of camera and how to compose the images. An entire chapter is dedicated to light and controlling the colors. Here he unleashes the power of one of the most popular photo editing softwares in the world, manufactured by Adobe, Photoshop.
And Excellent tips on photography irrespective of the genre you choose to shoot. In brief, it provides you with 107 lessons on taking pictures, making images, editing them storing them correctly and safely, printing the images and sharing them with the photo-communities, friends and potential clients. It’s an ideal book to re-examine your knowledge about color and how colors reproduce in digital format.
The book is elaborate and detailed, especially because in the world of digital color what we is rarely what we receive-the eye, the lens, the screen- all identify and reproduce color very differently. The guide brings together key elements of color theory, practice, application and everything else related to photography in a single volume.

Yahoo Mash
Yahoo Mash is Yahoo’s spanking new social networking site MASH which was launched few days back and is currently in BETA and open by invitation only. The profile page gives you a wide array of options to play with and edit like - your photo, friend list, tags, about me, modules (widgets), Blurts (status messages) and a guestbook. When updating your photo, Mash gives you the option to update the photo across all your yahoo accounts. Initially, it picks up the default avatar you set for your Yahoo account.
All modules have an option to “remove” and “grab it” while some have an option to “edit” settings at a later stage. On clicking grab it, you can choose another friend’s profile to add this module to. Although I’m not sure how happy friends would be with this once hundreds of mutual contacts keep pushing modules! One great feature of Mash is the generous amount of AJAX goodness sprinkled all over the page. Adding/editing modules gives you instant feedback without page refreshes.
If they can add member search, open up to the developer community, deploy a mobile version and fine tune the overall user experience soon, they have a fighting chance in the ever so crowded me-too networking scene. After all, what they’re offering is far from unique.

Peer to Peer

Or p2p in popular terms is the direct connection between 2 computers to enable faster and easier downloads from each computer to the other. There are innumerable softwares which enable a layman to obtain any file that he prefers pretty easily. Popular softwares include Lime wire, Emule, Kazaa etc. These softwares, when connected, bring about a direct connection between the searcher and the one who has the required information.
Many activists complain by saying these aren’t actually legal since it enables the users to lay their hands on many original copyrighted works illegally and without paying for them. That is absurd. Every netizen has the right to download/upload anything he wants. Are they trying to bring in Rules and Orders to the Internet also? That would be a big mistake.

Computer Games Vs Real Games

Off late, many people have resorted to playing Computer Games. When pitted against Real Games, Computer Games are less advantageous in many ways. It’s not as physically beneficial, doesn’t help build team spirit and the spirit of Sportsmanship is Blaringly Absent. Even though it demands absolute hand-eye coordination and tough mental strength, the underlying truth is that the situations the players encounter and simulated and cannot match Real life Situations.
Apart from the above mentioned, Computer games also involve huge Computer Graphics which act as a Motivation for people to play these games. The sheer magnificence of the Graphics these days is totally Mind Boggling. Also, Computer Games lack the human relation that can be experienced only with the real games. The fact that the user doesn’t really have to move much to play these games is a huge contributing factor to its burgeoning fan base. Whatever said and done, Computer games can never really be a substitute for real games. The grit, the vigour and the sweat can never be replaced.