Friday, March 28, 2008

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 / TZ4 with 10x Wide-Angle Zoom

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 / TZ4 with 10x Wide-Angle Zoom
Panasonic has today introduced two new Lumix digital cameras, 9.1-megapixel DMC-TZ5 and 8.1-megapixel DMC-TZ4, each featuring a 28mm wide-angle 10x optical zoom Leica DC lens (equivalent to 28-280mm on a 35mm film camera). The DMC-TZ5 newly integrates the capability of recording 720p HD (high-definition) motion pictures together with its direct output function allowing users to enjoy watching both still and motion pictures in HD quality on a large-screen HDTV. See full story...

Windows XP and Explorer - Toggle Caching Thumbnails And Creating Thumbs.db Files

Windows XP and Explorer - Toggle Caching Thumbnails And Creating Thumbs.db Files
Toggle whether or not you want Windows XP caching thumbnails for pictures inside Explorer folders, creating thumbs.db files in the process. ...

Microsoft Excel 2003 Functions and Formulas - Count the Number of Cells That Meet a Condition

Count the number of cells in a range that meet a specified criterion. ... Read More

Earth Hour tomorrow! - Switch Off the Lights!!

Tomorrow night, Saturday 29 March, 8pm - 9pm, will be an important hour for those who are interested in raising awareness about our environment, when Earth Hour takes place in many cities around the world.


Please play your part by switching off and unplugging any computers, monitors, phone chargers, speakers, or any other electrical item at your desk, before leaving work. If you want to participate at home, you can switch off and unplug electrical items such as toasters, kettles, lamps, phone chargers, clocks, stereos, TV’s, DVD and video players. [Earth Hour organisers say that it's important that anything that is switched off is also unplugged as the device can still draw power if kept plugged in.] Go to www.earthhour.org if you want more information.

Let's make ALL BLACK!







































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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 / TZ4 with 10x Wide-Angle Zoom

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 / TZ4 with 10x Wide-Angle Zoom
Panasonic has today introduced two new Lumix digital cameras, 9.1-megapixel DMC-TZ5 and 8.1-megapixel DMC-TZ4, each featuring a 28mm wide-angle 10x optical zoom Leica DC lens (equivalent to 28-280mm on a 35mm film camera). The DMC-TZ5 newly integrates the capability of recording 720p HD (high-definition) motion pictures together with its direct output function allowing users to enjoy watching both still and motion pictures in HD quality on a large-screen HDTV. See full story...

Microsoft Excel 2003 Functions and Formulas - Count the Number of Cells That Meet a Condition

Count the number of cells in a range that meet a specified criterion. ... Read More

Windows Media Player 11 - Rolling Back to Windows Media Player 10

Want to downgrade your Windows XP machine to Windows Media Player 10? ... Read More

New Panasonic compacts include TZ5 superzoom with HD

Today Panasonic unveiled a raft of new compacts including the successor to the Lumix TZ3, one of our favourite compacts of last year. The new TZ5 features the same excellent 28-280mm stabilised zoom lens in a compact case, but upgrades both the sensor and 3in screen resolutions to 9.1 Megapixels and 460k pixels respectively. The big new feature is HD movie recording at 720p / 30fps, and HDTV connectivity with an optional component cable; this also featured on the new Lumix FX55 slim compact. The TZ5 rounds this off with an improved Intelligent Auto mode. For full details of all the new models, check our Panasonic compact camera page. Read More

Off to Space aboard an XCOR Lynx

Off to Space aboard an XCOR Lynx
Well I wish.

XCOR Aerospace has announced that they will be offering suborbital flights from 2010 using their Lynx spaceship. I think I would prefer this option to the Virgin Galactic offering because you get to sit up front in the co-pilot seat rather than being a passenger sitting in the back. Also it is just you and the pilot. The Lynx takes off under its own power rather than being launched at 50,000 feet from another craft which is what Virgin Galactic are intending. The Lynx looks like one hell of a ride.

XCOR has produced this really cool animation of the entire journey. I couldn't help but notice that the Lynx vehicle design looks very similar to a VKA-23 which was designed in 1959 by the Soviet OKB-23 Myasishchev design bureau



Earth Hour tomorrow! - Switch Off the Lights!!

Earth Hour tomorrow! - Switch Off the Lights!!
Tomorrow night, Saturday 29 March, 8pm - 9pm, will be an important hour for those who are interested in raising awareness about our environment, when Earth Hour takes place in many cities around the world.


Please play your part by switching off and unplugging any computers, monitors, phone chargers, speakers, or any other electrical item at your desk, before leaving work. If you want to participate at home, you can switch off and unplug electrical items such as toasters, kettles, lamps, phone chargers, clocks, stereos, TV’s, DVD and video players. [Earth Hour organisers say that it's important that anything that is switched off is also unplugged as the device can still draw power if kept plugged in.] Go to www.earthhour.org if you want more information.

Let's make ALL BLACK!