Canon PowerShot A1100IS – Simple to operate

Canon PowerShot A1100IS is the successor to the A1000 IS and the new model comes with a higher 12 megapixels sensor with Canon’s Digic 4 image processor. Apart from that, there are more options here like advanced face detection and Smart Auto which is Canon’s system of automatic scene recognition. Canon PowerShot A1100IS is available in 4 2-tones colors – green, pink, blue and gray. The camera has high end looks than what the price says. On the right, there is nice curve for giving you steady grip for shooting with one hand. Things might get bulky due to this but the camera will easily fit in to your pants pocket. The LCD screen is small when you compare it with what other cameras in the market have but it is also one of the rare Canon compact cameras to have an optical viewfinder. This viewfinder is a bit small and uncomfortable to use but it will certainly come in handy when you shoot in bright sunlight.

You can turn off the LCD for saving battery life. Battery juice is really important if you are using alkaline batteries as you don’t get a lot of time. I would recommend you to get a couple of NiMH batteries; they will let you shoot for more time.
On the top of the Canon PowerShot A1100IS, there is a power button along with mode dial with ten shooting options. Apart from that, the shutter release along with zoom ring is also located here. You will find the standard modes like Easy (auto without any options), Auto, P (which is Program), and the Movie modes and along with that the manufacturer has given 5 popular scene selections including (Indoor, Portrait, Landscape) and also SCN choice for accessing the settings that are less frequently used like Aquarium, Long Shutter and Sunset. This makes the mode dial look a bit complicated but it is really simple. On the back, there is directional pad along with 6 buttons for playback and shooting functions but even new users will get a good hang of it quickly.

The performance of Canon PowerShot A1100IS is good for this class but it feels too slow for regular use. It takes two seconds for the camera to switch on and start shooting. Shot to shot timing is of 2.1 seconds which is good for this class. But it was frustrated by the average wait time of 6.6 seconds.

Apple Mac App Store Launches With Software Update 10.6.6

Apple Mac App Store Launches With Software Update 10.6.6

Apple's App Store launched today! If you haven't done so yet go to your Apple Menu and check your Software Updates to upgrade to 10.6.6 and after reboot the App Store icon will appear next to your Finder icon in the tray. So how is the App Store? At first glance totally fantastic - have you been putting off upgrading to the newest version of iLife '11? I had too until about five minutes ago when I downloaded iPhoto '11 and iMovie '11 indivdually for $14.99 each. That's right, instead of buying the boxed version for $49 you can download individual components for $14.99 and since I personally never use GarageBand I just saved some money - even if you do download all three, you still save $5 and no trees are killed in the making of your software. While we're sure there may be minor glitches and snags along the way right now we're extremely pleased.

Beautiful Widgets

Beautiful Widgets

Beautiful Widgets set of Widgets containing two skinned clocks + weather widget with forecast and nice weather animations (rain, storm, etc). Nice toggle widgets for Wifi, BT, etc. Multiple layouts and 140+ skins! See why it is the best Android widgets and the only choice for thousands of users!
Price: €1.49

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Features:

Beautiful Widgets are well… just beautiful! The set of Android home screen widgets resemble the impressive UI of the HTC Sense available on the HTC Hero phone. The set includes a larger 4×2 and 4×1 smaller clock and weather widget with options to set your location. Tap the weather icon to open a cool animation of your current weather conditions. Weather gives a four day forecast, the days high/ low and current temperature. Set 12/24 hour format and Fahrenheit/Celsius temperature. There are several 1×1 quick settings toggle widgets for Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, Silent, Vibrate, Brightness and Airplane modes.
The app features hundreds of downloadable weather skins to replace the default within the main widget, plus hundreds of downloadable skins for the overall look of Beautiful Widgets… so you don’t have to use the HTC Sense UI style. There’s styles for clean, grunge, Eclair (Android 2.1), and more so you never get bored with multiple styles to choose from.
There has been recent support for Beautiful Live Weather Live Wallpapers too! The current Live Wallpaper is a mock of the Grass live wallpaper that has the wavy grass and animation of your current weather be it sunny, rainy, cloudy, etc. factoring in morning/evening styles.

Beautiful Widgets

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Beautiful Widgets Home Screen

Beautiful Widgets Smaller Clock

Beautiful Widgets Settings Toggle Widgets

Beautiful Widgets Rain Weather Animation

Beautiful Widgets Weather Animation

Beautiful Widgets Weather Skins

Beautiful Widgets Skins

Beautiful Live Wallpapers

Beautiful Live Wallpapers on Home Screen

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Yahoo! News Slideshow

Yahoo! News Slideshow

 

Get all your favorite Yahoo! News photos on your desktop! The Yahoo! News Slideshow Widget lets you play and pause an animated slideshow, and jump to previous and next photos. Choose your preferred:

• news photo collection (from a diverse list)
• slideshow size (small, medium, large)
• slideshow speed (slow, normal, fast)
• photo description position (next to slide, over slide)

 

 

 

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Earthquakes Widget

Earthquakes

 

The Earthquakes Widget shows a world map with the latest earthquake information from USGS. Earthquakes are shown as circles, with a larger circle indicating a larger earthquake. Quakes within the last day are shown in yellow, those within the last week are shown in green. Right-click (or Ctrl-click on OS X) allows you to zoom in or out and open the USGS earthquake information page for any earthquake. Earthquake information is automatically refreshed about every three hours.

 

 

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PEMDAS

An Apple Design Award Winning scientific calculator with an easy-to-use interface for doing calculations with equations and variables.

In addition to the keypad, it also features an equation history view, which is activated by clicking on the the button next to the info button in the bottom bar. The equation history view gives one-click access to everything in the current session, including all equations and their associated results, and all variables. You can clear the session by pressing clear on your keyboard twice fast (shift+delete for notebook users), or double clicking the clear button on the calculator.

In addition, PEMDAS lets you switch between degrees and radians, and has support for percentages, trigonometric, hyberbolic, and logarithmic/exponential functions. You can also convert between hexadecimal, octal, binary, and decimal. PEMDAS lets you format the answer in scientific and engineering notation, has a preference for thousands separators, and lets you limit the amount of significant figures or decimal places displayed.


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WebImages

WebImages

 

This Widget allows its user to keep tabs on any image URL put into it. It's ideal for looking at images updated dynamically, such as webcams or traffic cameras. You can check out the Eiffel Tower or Times Square up to the minute if you want!

Custom URLs are stored for later use and the Widget can spawn copies of itself with a single click, for added spying fun.

 

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Google Gadget Widget Template

Google Gadget Widget Template

Create your own Dashboard widget out of any Universal Google Gadget. Go to the Google Gadget Directory, find the Gagdet you want, and copy it's URL to the widgets gadget.js file.

Please see the developerGuide.html which comes with the widget for more details and the Examples.

License:

You are free to modify and redistribute the generated widget, but you must keep the 'Generated with Widgetop's Google Gadget Template' message on the back of the widget. 

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TwitterSearch

Version 0.1 - Update December 22, 2010
Publisher: TheDashboard
Platform: Dashboard (Mac)

Tags: MacWidgets, Search, TheDashboard, Twitter, TwitterSearch
Get the TwitterSearch Widget

Dictionary .NET Widget Download

Version 3.1 - Update December 23, 2010
Publisher: fish
Platform: Standalone Widgets (Windows)

Tags: dictionary, google, search, suggest, translate, wikipedia
A tiny, easy and smart multilingual dictionary translating from/to 66 languages using Google's services.
Integrates Google Dictionary, Translate, Search, Suggest, Virtual Keyboard, Text To Speech, Wikipedia search, Bing wallpaper and more Google APIs without installing them.
Auto-detect any languages -> Dictionary -> Translate -> Search with just One-Click or a Hotkey. (Req. .NET 2.0 or higher)

FB Dashboard Widget Download

Version 1.0.2 - Update December 31, 2010
Publisher: a3labs
Platform: Sidebar Gadgets (Windows)

Tags: dashboard, facebook, fb
Millions of people use Facebook these days to keep in touch with friends, family, school mates, and more. With the FB Dashboard gadget, you can check for new messages and friend activity quickly and easily as well as comment and like items in your news feed.

Scribbler Widget download

Scribbler

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Scribbler is a clipboard extension that stores pieces of text, URLs, and file locations. It is a very versatile tool and is a must-have if you do a lot of copy/paste-ing like me ;)