Monthly Archives: November 2008

Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS

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The Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS is a camera very similar to the slightly superior IXUS 85 IS. It brings along a decently built design for people on the move. There aren’t too many settings and controls to play around with on this camera. It is made for users who want a camera that’s really compact to carry around – like a mobile phone of short.

One of the first issues is the battery door: as is the case with the IXUS 85 IS, the battery door here too feels weak and flimsy. Most of the interface design as well as the frame design is identical. The big change is in the Megapixel rating – the 80 IS is a 8 MP camera.

Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS

Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS

All the other Canon cameras in this price bracket run on AA batteries, but the IXUS 80 IS has a Lithium-ion battery. This, coupled with its compact design makes it a lot lighter than the rest. However, the shrunken size means its no longer chunky enough to hold in your hand as easily as the Powershot Series cameras.

Its overall performance isn’t bad at all. In just plain image and video quality tests, it lags behinds all the canon cameras, but not the others. Macro shots aren’t as easy to take as with the SX100 IS or the A720 IS. In video quality, once again, colors are a little too prominent, but the exposure meter helps changes the intensity of light instantly, and there’s not a lot of lag in lightning correction while moving from bright areas to dimmer ones. Overall, it’s a very good camera if you aren’t particular about pristine quality and manual controls.

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Embrace the Future with Voice over IP Phone Service

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Are you still using a regular phone line? Embrace the future and get Voip Internet Phone. Technology always moves forward, and in the case of phones, it gets better, too. And that’s not the only benefit.

Your Residential Phone Service will have all the bells and whistles you are used to, but with a much more competitive price. Those rates don’t just apply to local calls. They also stretch to your long-distance calls, and even some of your international calls.

You don’t have to pay those expensive phone company rates any more. Choose your package service level and get your Internet Phone Service for one low, easy monthly rate. Imagine being able to make unlimited phone calls to over 30 foreign nations. How much extra would that cost you with a regular phone line? That kind of service is included in one of the packages…and that package still costs less than regular phone company rates.

Voip Your Life is one of the premier Voip Phone Provider companies out there today. Ranked highly in customer service and satisfaction, you get a wide range of services from them. Interested in free hardware, shipping, and no activation charge? Voip Your Life has it. Some of the other great features waiting for you are: Voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, and call forwarding…all included!

When you look at the features, the service packages, and then the price, it’s a no-brainer. It can’t get any easier. And when you take that ease and stick such a great price tag on it, you’ve got a winner.

If you’re worried about the quality of Internet Phone Calls, don’t be. Voip phone service sounds just as good as your regular phone or your mobile. Give it a try. You won’t be disappointed. Current customers rave about the quality of the phone service and the customer service of Voip Your Life.

If you haven’t made the switch to using an Internet phone setup, why are you waiting? The quality of the phone calls will be great, you can call to a whole list of foreign countries without any extra fees, and you can do all of this for one low monthly rate. What more could you ask for in a phone service?

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ATI Quietly Enters Switchable Graphics Technology for Intel Centrino 2 Notebooks

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ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has quietly introduced technology that allows notebooks to seamlessly switch between discrete ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) and integrated Intel Graphics and Media Accelerator to boost graphics performance or save power. The tech is available for Intel Centrino 2 laptops that run Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

ATI Switchable Graphics technology is a joint effort between ATI/AMD and Intel Corp. to provide users of Intel Centrino 2 notebooks the best features of various graphics adapters: performance and feature-set of discrete GPU and power-efficiency of integrated graphics processor (IGP). A similar technology was also developed by Intel and Nvidia so that to provide customers a choice of graphics processors.

Thanks to Switchable Graphics technology, select notebooks that feature Intel GS45 or GM45 core-logic set and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3600 or 3400 graphics chip can switch between standalone and integrated graphics cores dynamically depending on the power source and user preferences without rebooting the PC. Although dynamic switching between graphics cores does not require any complex technology inside chips themselves, the notebook and its BIOS must be specifically designed to support the capability.

Similar technology called Hybrid CrossFire is also available for AMD-based mobile computers, but in case of AMD platforms, IGP and GPU can also work collaboratively in multi-GPU mode in order to boost performance of graphics sub-system substantially.

AMD’s graphics product group has not issued any official statements on the matter of Switchable Graphics technology launch. Perhaps, because there are currently very few Intel Centrino 2 laptops that feature ATI Switchable Graphics, for example, Lenovo ThinkPad T400 and T500 feature Intel GM45 chipsets and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 and 3450 graphics processors, respectively; perhaps, because AMD does not want to attract any attention to the platform of its arch-rival on the market of central processing units.

Earlier this year ATI introduced its external graphics platform (XGP) that allows specially-designed external graphics accelerators to be connected to notebooks or small form-factor desktops.

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