Quote: Yes. Get a brochure from all of the Cellphone providers, compare all the rates given in the brochures and choose the best one for you. !

Are you one of the smart boy?

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Quote: I've 2 x 2TB drives from WD recently, one USB and one Networked ( cat5 ) decided to go as large as poss for storage space V value, picked these up @ Maplins for around £100 each, quiet in operation and v pleased with them.

How long do you have the WD 2TB? How much did you pay? Where did you buy?

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I have a similar question like AnaKa.

After so many years photography, and having more than 5000 images in digital formats, I have reached to this conclusion that I need to get rid of my two small external storage hard drives, and go for a bigger one in cpacity, i.e. 2TB.
I read few articles and reviews in few websites, and still I am not sure which one is more reliable and cost effective. The most recent article I read was belong to PC Advisor.
I do not want to pay more than £200 in price.
I would like to know which one do you have for PC, the reasons behind buying it, and whether you are happy and satisfied with it's performance. Did the external HD had any problems in the past or does it work smoothly like the first day you bought.
I would appreciate your assistant in this matter.

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Quote: Quote: How do you feel about the Sony full-frame a99?

In my humble opinion, if you stuck with Sony stuff, and would like a better camera, and you don't mind to save money little bit more and buy the Sony Alpha A99 SLT. (Currently £2099.00 on the WEX)

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Thank you all for the answers.
I guess I had to stay with white.
Perhaps in future when I get tired of it, I join the club.

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Quote: Go to your portfolio page and select 'more' from the options menu. Then follow through 'settings/potfolio settings/portfolio style' and at the bottom of the page you have the option to change the background colour.

Thank you rogerfry for your answer.

Unfortunately I can not see the last option 'background colour' as you mentioned, at all.

What I see, is as follow:
kombizz > Portfolio Information > Portfolio Style (which ask me to change or keep the image : This photo appears on your about page. It should be a picture of yourself.
kombizz > Portfolio Information > Default Portfolio Photo (Select the photo you would like to feature out of your gallery. This is your latest photo by default.)
kombizz > Portfolio Information > Join e2 (Join e2 to have a header image on all your portfolio pages and be able to change the style of your portfolio)

May be I have to join 'the club', in order to change the the Black Background? Not sure?

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I watched the video of Samsung Galaxy S4 Presentation UNPACKED . I loved the new features of this new cell phone.
Now, the question is how can I get it in a cheap contract.
A) Of course one option would be to get a contract and pay it montly.
B) Another option would be to buy the handset. Then my question is, I am not sure which network give a better deal with lower subscription fee?
DO YOU the answer to my question?
Thanks

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Few minutes ago, I found the lovely black background color of Rasoul.
I loved it.
I wonder how can I change the white background of my portfolio to this beautiful black one.
What should I have to do in setting in order to have the black background.
Thank you for your help.

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Thank you all for inputs.
This old lady wanted to upload all of her images to internal memory and look at them or show them to her friends.
She does not know anything about re-sizing images at all.
How about my Q2, and Q3?
Does anbody have this tablet NATPC tablet? If so, please write me how reliable it is.
Thanks

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An old lady asked me if there is any digital frame with internal memory beyond 4GB in order to put all of her entire photo collection in it.
Initially my answer to her was no. Then I searched more and found no answers. I was thinking the best tool for her would be a tablet.
Then, my questions to you are as follow:
Q1- I wonder if anybody knows about any digital frame with 16GB internal memory?
I was not able to find any Digital Frame in Google or any other sites.

If the answer is no, then
Q2- What is the cheapest tablet 10" - 12" LCD with 16GB internal memory?
I found the tablet NATPC with 16GB in Amazon.
Do you any similar cheap tablets with 16GB?
I should mention she does not have any computer knowledge, and she primarily would like to use the tablet for viewing her images.
Q3- Is it possible to turn off all of the programes in the tablet except the photo section?
Thank you.

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Quote: There's this:

http://kaystreet.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/obama-administration%E2%80%99s-achieve...

As an alien resident in the US, I cannot vote, so I'm not criticizing or praising this administration. But one thing I know, is that people have all too quickly forgotten the mess the previous administration got this country into. Not an easy mess to clean-up imho.

I do wish Obama had not tried to unite democrats and republicans, and had instead attempted to push through some of the bills esp wrt health care while he still had support and momentum. Maybe he as many is guilty of lack of vision. I guess that was a bit of crit

I wonder how many of these went wrong!

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Quote: That video lays out the way politics has become so polarised - someone who does not manage to achieve what they wanted immediately becomes 'a liar'. I would rather have someone like Obama who has stated what he would like to achieve than have Bush and his cronies who never even bothered to try.

I like your apparently reasonable stance, but I'm sorry to say I don't have the same belief in Obama that you have. I'm bitterly disappointed in Obama because he has not delivered anything of note since coming into office.
He has been in office for several years now and yet he has not kept any of his promises as far as I can see. If Obama was a real president (a very rare species indeed) he would push through the reforms he talks about (he's a good talker) and tell the creeps around him to sod off. If he loses his presidency as a result, so be it...at least he would have left office on a real matter of principle. Corruption in politics is like the natural environment i.e. it feeds like a parasite on those who don't make it their business to stamp it out. It's time, I say for a few real men or women to stand up and be counted...
So really I have to agree in principle with "kombizze's" stance, though ostensibly, yours is more mature and reasonable.

Amen !

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I made a simple calculation of a politician speeach (or in this case a preacher) in one hour time.
If we consider there are 7 lies around 2 minutes, then:
60 X 7 = 420
420 / 2 = 210 lies / 1 Hr
Then no wonder the nation is in a BIG mess!

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Quote: In this 1:46 video, we point out 7 promises that then candidate Obama has already broken. We hope that all the people of the ObamaNation are happy with their president.

Are they really Lies?
Not sure!

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A man buys a lie detector robot which slaps people who lie.
He decides to test it at dinner one night.
DAD: Son, where were you today during school hours?
SON: At School.
Robot slaps son!
SON: Ok, I lied, I went to the movies.
DAD: Which one?
SON: Toy Story.
Robot slaps son again!
SON: Ok, it was porn.
DAD: ...What?! When I was your age, I didn't even know what porn was...
Robot slaps Dad!
MOM: forgive him dear, after all he is your son.
Robot slaps mom !!

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RIP - I used to watch his program on English Tv.

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It's official!
Occupy movement is on UK terror list...!!

Quote: City of London Police have sparked controversy by producing a brief in which the Occupy London movement is listed under domestic terrorism/extremism threats to City businesses.

You may read more here.

In Healthy Debate

Quote: Join RSPLF Adrian.



What is RPSLE stands for?

In General Photography discussion

Quote: During the Gulf War, crews used to put a condom over the muzzle of their artillery pieces. It stopped sand getting into the barrel and didn't have to be removed before firing.

I wonder why the MOD gave condom to the soldiers in the first place. Did MOD think Iraqi women loose their pride like few other Far Eastern nations?

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Quote: For the folks that like to practice safe photography then

You got it.
I ALWAYS try to be safe in shooting!!

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Quote: That must be why I haven't taken many pictures recently. I usually stop when I'm about to shoot!!!

Perhaps you suffer from shy syndrome!

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It seems Vernix found a better way to protect lens fungus.
What do you think about his DIY work?
You may find it here.

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Are you ready for smaller CF?
The CompactFlash Association Announced that there will be a new product by the name of XQD. It has a size between CF and SD cards.
You may read it further about this new product here.

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The Funniest Singaporean Man in YouTube
Part 1
pArt 2
paRt 3
Enjoy

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Around a month ago, I went to a restaurant that served bugs for the source of protein.
Today found this good article that I would like to share with you all.
Perhaps sooner you join our party and having bugs to eat.
Please click this.

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I guess UN can add two organic WMD that nature put them for us to use in an approriate situation.

1- Pepper Spray which Rachel wrote an informative artcle about it in gizmodo under the title: What Pepper Spray Does to Your Body (via Gizmodo).


2- Bhut Jolokia (Naga Ghost Chili) which is the hottest chilli pepper in the world.
Watch and be informed here.

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Thank you all for your informative inputs.

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I reserved one couple weeks ago.
Then I tell the rest of my story with it.

In Fujifilm Cameras

not really!

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The day I retired with no money to spend on any photography stuff anymore!

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Quote: I just got told to f off to Afghanistan because I shared a post on Facebook that had this image that suggested Christmas should go away it's still November (edit photo deleted here as it's adult nature)


So what do you think about Christmas? Like it? Indifferent? or loathe it?

My view
It used to be special because it lasted for a few weeks, but now it drags on from September to December. Its the music that gets me down, I don't want to hear those rubbish songs ever again, but ever year I am subjected to almost three months of the dirge.

I am very curious about your image which was deleted!

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Today, I managed to discover the vision, mission and images of Howard French.
He is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the former foreign correspondent and senior writer for The New York Times in countries, i.e.:China, Japan, West and Central Africa and Central American and the Caribbean.
He is a beautiful collection of images of innocent childen in Gorongosa, Mozambique.
You may view this lovely collection here.
In my comment under his collection wrote this:

Quote: I wonder if there are any better future for these kids whom you took their images?
You travelled well enough and I am sure you have some kind of idea to share with me and others those who believe in peace & harmony in this world. If your opinion is negative don't share because we all are witness, and if you have a >positive one, please share and give lit to our darkened heart.
Namaste'

Hope all enjoy his photo-journalism work.

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Do you have any experience with TOR?
A friend offered me a new software for my protection. It is called Tor.
I Googled it and find the following information about Tor.
Not sure how useful this would be for me.
Do you have any personal experience about this software? If so, please write me pro/con of this program for me.
Thanks
Tor Project

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Thanks to Irina that many people manged to go back to their future.
Look at these images and judge for yourself:
Please watch them here.

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not really
but time to time I check my fate with Google!

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Quote: Kombizz you crosspost the same stuff to other photo sites, I hope ePz bring in a rule for copy and paste posting just to block your stuff

I hope so.
Although the site does it anyhow. Please check this one:


Quote: Forum Topic: "Who are these people behind the scenes?" Update Notification On ePHOTOzine Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 12:52
From: "ePHOTOzine" To: "kombizz@xxxxxxxx.com"

Hi K o m b i z z,

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Kind Regards,
The ePHOTOzine Team

Now if I click on that link, I will find this:


Quote: Page Unavailable
Forums > Healthy Debate > Page Unavailable

Attention!
This topic has been deleted.

If you don't trust me, check it by yourself.

So not all of my copy/paste would be successful which is fine with me.

God bless

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Quote: Or perhaps the solution would be for you to engage in the debates that you start. You must have some valuable input to give of your own rather than just posting links to other peoples stuff.

I won't block you, as one day you may come out of your shell and have something interesting to say.

In this case you might find these ones interesting!

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Quote: Its not the subject matter that bugs me, its the copy, paste and run nature of these threads.

Perhaps the only solution would be to BLOCK me for NOW and FOREVER which is fine with me.
God bless
Try to shoot better images

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Quote: Got it in one. We can't dictate a policy on who finds what interesting.

Thank you

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Quote: Its like receiving emails with no subject line, if the subject itself is not compelling i'll never click through, i only add to this one as i saw some good comments just above me.
I'll almost never click here on a blind link.

Perhaps if you put these two words you could get 387,000,000 results!

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Quote: It's like having Sky News / Al Jazeera / whatever, just throwing up random sites in front of me and asking me to click it. I have no idea what is at the other end. I have no idea if it's work safe, or if it's a site that contains viruses or the like.




Fully agree with you on this one Bri, its about time the administrators put a stop to him posting these links which have no relevence or interest to 99% of our members.

€olin

So please by all means block me or ignore my thread and instead shooting more images.

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Quote: I assume my previous comment was offensive in some way ?

can't remember!

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The Day Democracy Died in Europe!?

Quote: 11 November is rightly a poignant day. I wear a red poppy, always have, for the reasons I used to 40 years ago, ignoring the overlay of militaristic propaganda, which was always there but has been hyper-amplified of late.

But this is the day the music died for European democracy. It is of course a mistake to choose a single day or event as the day any historical grand process unfolds. But a single day can symbolise it, like the fall of the Bastille.

HERE 2b clicked!

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Quote: My guess is you want to scan slides.
If so dedicated film scanners have a D max advantage over flat bed scanners.
For 35mm slides the Minolta has had no support for years. The Nikon LS 5000 is out of production - and the software provided does not support anything later than Vista 32 bit.
The Nikon LS 8000 for 35mm and medium format is still listed, but as far as I know is also limited to Vista 32 bit.
On paper the recently introduced Reflecta RPS 7200 is better than the Minolta or LS 5000 but I know very little about the Reflecta.
The price seems to be around £500. They are distributed in the UK by www.kenro.co.uk and have a D-max of 3.6 which from memory is not as good as Nikon.

Thank you for your recent info.

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Quote: After two and a half days of presentations and meetings at SLAC, the panel of 19 experts recommended that the 3.2 gigapixel (billion pixel) camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope receive Critical Decision-1 status, the DOE’s project-management milestone that defines a large project’s approach and funding for achieving a specific scientific mission.

To read more, please click here.

In General Photography discussion

Quote: I have a Canon LiDE, it's dreadful.

What is the RES of it?
Thanks

In Accessories

I would like to invite you to watch this interesting carnival in Tijuc.
Interesting to see how the ghosts bring their heads up their bodies.
Please watch here.
Cheers

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Quote: If you want to spen $9,000 go ahead. At that price I can't be bothered finding out how good it is - and I bloody well hope it is better than Nikon ones.
What research have you done?

I am looking for high Res flat/ film scanner, and I found Canon CAN, so I might can!

In Accessories

Ed is a pro photographer and have more than 25 years experience in film photography. Originally he is from Duluth, Minnesota. In the last 20 years he was dedicated his career to take images of Great Lakes. You may able to read and see his project here:
The Fresh Coast Project
A Matter of Time
You may find his bio and work here:
www.edwargin.com
Hope all of us learn from his experieces in the world film photography rather than just clicking in the new era of digital photography.

In General Photography discussion