Amazon pioneered the market of 'ebook reader' devices. It's 'Kindle' paved the way for other companies to come up with their own version of ebook reader. That brought the competition and then Amazon's monopoly is shattered. Thereby, it's compelled to marginalize it's price to accommodate itself with growing competition, I'm astonished to find some companies are selling one of these devices arrogantly for over $850. That's outrageous.

We're experiencing the flood of ebook reader devices. Some of these ebook readers are listed below:

Sony Reader PRS-700
COOL-ER
Astak EZ Reader
iRex Digital Reader
Cybook Gen3
iLiad 2nd Edition
Foxit eSlick

Ebook readers are hot-sale these days because of it's extreme portability, easy to use features, and capacity to store thousands of books and articles in it. Just having a feeling of carrying multiple books in one-small-few-hundred-gram device is the main driving force making people spend.



These readers are replica of black N white newspaper of old time. You cannot see colorful images and stuff like that. Just grayscale and b/w. This is now becoming one one growing issue among readers(we human). Reading things in color means whole different set of technology and lets see how long does it take for these companies to embrace that.

Needless to say, infact mobile devices and smart phones can be turned into mini-ebook readers too. Like I can read books on my HTC Touch diamond. How cool is that?


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Recently I came across a site called slooh.com which lets anybody to remote control high-end telescopes located in islands via computer.

If you are astro-photographer, astronomy enthusiasts or anyone who just loves to star-gaze then, this is a definite visit. Hire telescope for some mere $50 per year and you can use it for definite period of time for whole year. I've seen people who has taken bunch of amazing cosmic photographs through this site


It just takes time and patience to capture that moment. Who knows you could have that opportunity to snap something wonder in those galaxies.

I'm trying it and it's very fascinating. There is one animated character 'Otto' who walks you through all the time.

Sometimes soon, I'm gonna buy telescope to star gaze once I had enough turning my home computer into observatory.


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Over a month ago, I wrote roughly on Bing's potential against Google.

To carry on with the job, someone has come up with a neat website for those of you who are still in the verge deciding which way to go.

This site called bing-vs-google.com lets you see your search results on one page. It uses both engines at one time. Actually, it makes your searches more efficient when you want to compare things on both. I've to be honest here, my 16:9 screen was far better to see results onto than my father's 4:3.


Lets go to my own personal analysis. I tried couple of searches on certain keywords and Bing's were more accurate. Google simply outputted non-relevant results whereas Bing did the good job. Say, I started with my name(can click/see in the picture above) and I've to admit, Google didn't put my site on their radar. It's still showing the same old stuffs from it's cache. Ridiculous. With doubts I tried other keywords, say 'Nepal' and once again, Google showed totally irrelevant nonsense in it's third or fourth link. Checked back with the Bing, none was the case.

This is my second verdict on Google Vs Bing and here, Bing is still the winner.


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An animated projection of Computer Virus's life presented in a hilarious manner. I came across this animation and couldn't help myself to make it one of the posts on my blog.

It starts with an animator sketching some stick figure and all of a sudden...





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I've taken bunch of beautiful shots with my Panasonic Lumix FZ28 and many were amazed with it's output. To be true, I never had as wonderful camera as this one. I actually played around with expensive over 1000 bucks toys but Panasonic FZ28, I just fell in love with it. It's capabilities are enormous.


I got up to take a pee as usual in the middle of the night, and the breeze(off the open windows) was so cool, as I peeped outside, it was moon's light I couldn't resist. Took a deep pranayama breathe in/out to enjoy the air, darted inside, got a FZ28 on my hand and outside started to shot Moon's pic. Then I Put the camera into Video Recording Mode, and before I hit the shutter-release button to record, I set the camera into Spot metering mode.

If you don't know how to put your Panasonic FZ28 into Spot Metering mode, check this picture below:
http://www.navinlama.com/images/Panasonic-FZ28-Spot-metering.jpg

Don't know what is spot metering??
Read it here: http://www.spotmetering.com/spwhy.htm

Well, I almost felt like Jim Carey then (Bruce Almighty), where he uses his mighty power to drag moon closer to the earth.. At one point, I was terrified to see moon's crater's on my camera's LCD screen, I almost lost control, it got shaky, You could see that on the camera footage.



Time of recording: Aug 13,2009 , 1:03 am

Even if Panasonic FZ28 has optical zoom of 18x, with spot metering ON, you'll get 32x Zoom(Optical+Digital mixed). It's awesome.

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I was kind of disappeared from my own blog. It's very hard to put myself into so many things and yet maintain the things around. Life doesn't circle around one thing, there are so many things to take care of.


Few days back, I tried to upload one Video of mine on YouTube and YouTube which usually took few minutes to audioswap, made me wait for more than 24 hours. Obviously, in their eyes, it was some copyright infringement act(so the audioswap...) even though I had put just a intro portion of the whole music. Here is one thing that I want to put light on something, YouTube's action could look good but believe it or not, I buy albums after what I hear on YouTube. Whenever, I saw some youtube videos with amazing music, I asked about it and later bought it off Amazon or eBay. There are hundreds of thousand doing that. They just go and buy the album if they like it. In a sense, YouTube is killing the marketing reach of music industry. But whatever. It's none of my business just a small concern that I put forward. Later on, after waiting for over 24 hours, I had to delete my video, cos, I hated to see my video mute.

And, yesterday, As I was trying to check my facebook, I was denied to access. I asked around if their facebook is working and strangely, I was the only one whose account looked almost closed or shutdown for some reason. Well, some sort of strange idea popped up if I'm being the hate-list target of these online giants. Sounds funny but that's what I thought then.

Today, I read not so unusual news about Twitter getting slowed down due to DOS attack by a hacker. I didn't use Twitter for few days, Its irritatingly slow sometimes. It's because of the massive traffic they are getting or the fake traffic(DOS) causing problems. Alongside, I also read Facebook had some issues in past hours and that relieved me to some extent. That was the reason. I checked my Facebook again and it worked. Otherwise, I almost ditched the idea of using it.

Adios


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