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In year 2008 I was looking for camera which would be good for two weeks bicycle trip in Lithuania. There were few requirements for camera:

• 8 million pixels or more;
• Lightweight;
• Water resistance;
• Solid body;
• Small size;

I found Olympus Mju series. The best one was Mju 1030sw. Olympus u1030sw specifications:

• 10.1 million pixels;
• Optical zoom: 3.6x;
• Resolution up top 3648×2736;
• ISO (auto) 80-1600;
• Normal focus 500mm;
• Macro focus 20mm;
• Flash: auto, off, on, red eyes;
• Video: 15fps up to 640×480;
• Video sound: yes;
• Weight: 173 g;
• Memory card: xD;

Additional:

• Can be dropped from 2 m.;
• Can be pressed by 100 kg;
• Can “swim” in water (up to 10 m deep);
• Can be used in winter (up to -10 C);

First thing what I bought for this camera was additional battery. I bought it because of trip without electricity. I can’t remind, but I guess that 2GB xD card was included in price. By the way, price was 1249 Litas (it’s almost 500$). Battery was quite expensive (50$ or mrore), because none stores couldn’t offer it except Olympus store.

Till now I own this camera and still hadn’t any big problems. Only few small things:

• As you can see in the picture black color “run away”;
• Small scratch on the screen;
• Broken trim around the lens (no time to glue it);

This camera was worth these money, because of additional functions and really good quality. It is recommended to buy original xD cards, because in these cards you can find function for making panoramic pictures. I will not comment about about taking photos. It is easy to use for non-pro photographers. All functios are very similar with other Olympus cameras. If I need to change camera now I don’t know what camera will get largest amount of points from me. Today I want SLR, but this Olympus won’t lose my attention because I really like travelling and taking pictures in winter or underwater.

Today I had a headache how to remote connect from Ubuntu 10.10 to Windows XP. It was very good that computer with Windows XP had external IP address.

First of all what I did was installing Windows and setting up Remote Desktop. Then came “funniest” part – trying to connect from Ubuntu. I have checked lot of forums and How to websites, but nothing helped me. The problem was in ESET antivirus. I have forget to stop firewall. After stopping virus protection and firewall I connected to Windows from Ubuntu.

There are few ways to connect:

1. Open terminal and type rdesktop -fP 123.456.78.90 (change these numbers to your remote computer IP). Now you will be able to control Windows computer. If you don’t want to use full screen – type rdesktop -P (P uses persistent Bitmap caching). You could use help for more options (rdesktop -help)
2. Use Remotedesktop Client. There are few options and easy to use interface (not a command line as in terminal). Only one you really should know – IP address of computer which you want to control.

In year 2007 I bought one of the cheapest notebook I found. It was Benq Joybook A52E. It costed about 550 USD.

Specifications

• CPU: Intel Celeron M520 1.6GHz;
• RAM: DDR2-667 512MB (one year ago I added additional 512MB);
• HDD: 80 GB;
• Screen: TFT 15.4″;
• Max. resolution: 1280×800;
• VGA: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB;
• Battery: up to 2.5 hours;
• Addition: WLAN, 3x USB 2.0, VGA/D-SUB, RJ45 (LAN), PCMCIA, Mic, Headphones;

This notebook was used just for basic operations such as Office programs, Internet browsing and sometimes for playing some games. So, this computer haven’t saw very heavy use (like 3D software, gaming high resulotion etc.)

Now, after more than 4 years of use, I can say that this Benq is very good notebook, because it haven’t saw service! By the way, it is time to repair CD-ROM, but I don’t really need it and repair cost doesn’t worth money. Today I’m writing this post from this Benq (because my Samsun Q310 motherboard is dead) with Ubuntu 10.10 OS.

So, what can I say, I am happy having this notebook, but if I had possibility I change it to new one. Why? Because I need faster computer (my eyes are on Dell XPS with i7 or Apple Macbook Pro/Air also with i7).

If you want to buy used Benq Joybook A52E you are going to do right decision, but you should look at CD-ROM and WLAN. These two things are most know to have problems.

If you are insterested in technologies you may know what is SIRI. If not I will explain.

Siri is part of iPhone 4S. You could ask SIRI route, time, tips or other information by your voice and your iPhone 4S with help of SIRI will answer your question, show route on map and makes lot of things you need. I haven’t tested it yet, but I am sure that Siri could make daily task easier, but I don’t know how it works with non English speaker owners. If you need more information about Siri, visit official website.

Firs time I saw what is SIRI was amazing song by Jonathan Mann “A Duet with Siri”:

Another very instersting video that I found today was Siri TV ad called “Santa”:

I am not expert of marketing, but looks like this ad will be very popular worldwide.

Pool in the yard doesn’t surprise neighbors or your guest, but pool from this Youtube video can surprise all your guest. On the other hand, this hidden pool could be used as prank (look at the 1:23)

Talking about this amazing pool is not interesting, better watch this video:

As you can see in the video, this pool can be lowered a little for your kids or just in minutes you could make deep pool for adults. If you do not need pool you could hide water and use pool as place for picnic.

For more information you could visit Hidden Water Pools website

I have just looked at one of my website’s analytics reports and I was surprised about browsers.

The top 5 of the Internet browsers are:

1) Safari. Safari is default browser for Apple (Mac) computers and just a few percents of other OS users use it, so, maybe most of my visitors are using Apple.

2) Chrome. It is browser by Google and now it is really popular. I have just heard that Chrome run out Mozilla Firefox, so it’s not strange that Chrome is in the second place.

3) Internet Explorer. I don’t want to imagine how surf using only this browser and it is said that IE is only for downloading new browser… I agree. I can see that IE loses users every day, but it still in top 3.

4) Firefox. This mozilla browser was one of my favorite, but now, after some bugs, I can’t stand it. Few month ago, Firefox was in top 3, now – just a 4th place.

5) Android browser. I was surprised again. More users uses Android smartphones to visit my website than users with Opera browser (6th).

As you can see, the top 5 is very different from global tops. Maybe it depends on topic of website.

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I saw LEGO in local store and remind that these blocks were probably my favorit game in childhood. I have lot of ideas what to construct, but now I have no ideas for constructing.

I don’t why, but I tried to find some ideas for LEGO. I was amazed how many ideas are online. From ideas to babies up to 3 years to ideas for ADULTS! Sounds crazy, but it’s true. You can construct amazing houses or RC cars. I hope that my kid will have LEGO and we could construct together.

What do you think about LEGO and constructing with your kid together?

Do you need to print something really small? For example, notes or bus shedule? You need Little Printer.

Little printer could be set up with your smartphone.

As you can see in the pictures little printer could be used in various situations.

Preorder on 2012.

Today I found out that Youtube changed their look. Interesting that most of people dislike the new look, but I think it’s really good and easy to use.

Probably the most popular question todays is “How to change youtube look back to old?”

As I know the asnwer is “There is no possibility to change it back” and I think that’s good, because one day old look anyway will be removed. So, use the look, check where all needful functions are and don’t panic. Everything is going to be changed one time…

Today I created a Facebook page for Youtube look change: New Youtube look. Hate or like?