My Canon Powershot A 610

Two weeks back I bought Canon Powershot A 610 Digital Camera. Sony Mavica FD-73, was my old camera which I used hardly for a year in 2000, which was a floppy disk model and it can hold only 10 images in one media. Later, my cousin Sudhan with whom I roam a lot, had few cameras, and also  Canon PowerShot S410, so I had no intension of buying a digital camera. And the truth was I want to sell my Sony Mavica FD-73 before buying a new one.

But, last year  I was interested in buying a new camera, so I started searching and reading many reviews. I always recommend Canon, Sony & Nikon cameras. So, I selected  Sony DSC-W5, Nikon Coolpix 5600, Canon PowerShot D450 & Canon PowerShot A610 in October. From then, I took nearly two months to select Canon PowerShot A610.My budget was around 300$. But in a good deal we can get this for even 225$ (with a Dell.com coupon). Here in India, the price is around 16,500 INR (around 350$).

And memory card I have 256 MB SD which is not even sufficient for a one day shoot. So Im planning to buy a 1GB SD Elite Pro Kingston from Buy.com

Specifications :

5.1 Mega Pixels
4x Optical Zoom
4x Digital Zoom
ISO Rating : Auto, 50, 100, 200 & 400
Focus : Auto & Manual
Exposure compensation : -2 EV to +2 EV in 1/3 EV steps
2.0″ vari-angle color LCD with up to 10x playback zoom
Program AE, Shutter-speed priority, Aperture priority and Manual modes
Shutter speeds : 15 seconds to 1/2500 second
Inbuilt Microphone & Speaker
and more...

Canon Powershot A 610 is bit bulky, & its difficult to keep into your shirt pocket, but still the size gives you better result!!

Canon Powershot A 610 Back side View

Back side View with Credit Card (to Compare)

Canon Powershot A 610 compared with my Credit Card

Canon Powershot A 610  Side View showing the USB, AV & power supply port.

Top view of Canon Powershot A 610 with Minimal Zoom

Also, I will post more photos soon, & Im planning to write a review soon

Create username / ID with a dot in Yahoo

Email ID / Username of Yahoo, the web giant can have alphanumerics, with underscore ( _ ) the only used special charachter. But, now they have included dot (.) as a part of their username / id  special character list. The best of all is if you have a yahoo Id before you can then integrate it with the new one, means you can have two username pointing to the same mailbox. Cool    Click here to integrate your existing account with another one. 

If you have a yahoo mail Id like : kiruthik_kumar then you can also create kiruthik.kumar pointing to kiruthik_kumar. Even you can change the primary account to the new one. Also you can login with that!!!

Gmail gives an option to send mails from any email Id provided that is a valid one. (Its very much different from Yahoo's work)

The main difference between the Gmail and Yahoo in this regard is :

Yahoo Supports only one mail Id (that must be also a yahoo Id) both sharing the common mailbox.

Gmail supports any number of email Id(regardless of domain), but its for outgoing mails only. (Even not possible to get mails from your other gmail account/username into one.)

Electronic giant Sony has introduced Sony Reader, a PDA sized device, which lets you to read ebooks. Also it comes with a headphone socket, which helps to hear MP3 songs as well.  

It lends the display technology from e-Ink.

Display      :   15 cm(6 inch)
Weighs      :   250 grams 
Thickness  :   2 cm

Supports Adobe PDF, JPEG & Blogs(RSS). It supports both Secure Digital & Memory Stick to have more memory.

Best of all is, many of the world's leading book publishers will support Sony eBook Reader, including Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster and Time Warner Book Group.

Its nearly three months I posted  to this Category (My Stupidity). This doesn't mean Im growing smart!! Ok.,

Im pursuing MBA through ICFAI's distance learning program & had my first exam last sunday(08-Jan-2006). The curriculum was like two papers each group & Im in the first group. So I have Business Communication & Introduction to Management.

 And last week, I was busy with my office work which came to an end. But I was very much into Business Communication book which was my first exam & the other was scheduled for the next weekend. Nearly I had covered most of the topics. The best of ICFAI is : most of the things like paying exam fees, registering for exams etc., can be done through INTERNET. Even, few exams we can write it online!! So two days before my exam I was to print my Hall Ticket which can also be downloaded in the net!! After printing, I left home. The Hall Ticket was inside my Business Communication book, and after dinner I took it out to read the Rules & Regulation. After seeing that I was bit tensed!!!

It said : Intro to Management - 08/Jan/2006    10:00AM - 1 PM & Business Communication - 15/Jan/2006    10:00AM -1 PM. What to do ... I overlooked it while registering. Then I had only one day to brush up, & look all new chapters in Introduction to Management!!!! The same has happened in my second year of my Under graduation. Bad na... Anyway visit here later to know my result.

Three days back, Microsoft Launched Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 & BizTalk Server 2006 here in Chennai. As I couldn't attend the launch in Bangalore, where BillGates presided, I went to this Ready Launch Tour 2005 in Chennai. But I couldn't stay for the whole show. I was there for 2 hours. And in the registration desk they gave a stuffed paper carry bag, with Ready Lauch Tour 2005 printed on both sides.

Contents found in the bag :

1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 professional Edition (90 Days Trial)  - CD

2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition  (180 Days Trial)  - DVD

3. MSDN for SQL Server 2005 - DVD

Two days back only I downloaded  Express Edition of  Visual Web Developer 2005, SQL Server 2005 & Visual Basic 2005. Anyway I can use that later.

Free Exam  Voucher  for any one of the following :

70 - 431 SQL Server 2005 - Implementation & Maintenance

70 - 536 .Net Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation

70 - 551 Upgrade : MCAD Skills to MCPD Web Developer

70 - 552 Upgrade : MCAD Skills to MCPD Windows Developer

70 - 553 Upgrade : MCSD to MCPD Enterprise Application Developer

70 - 235 Developing Business Process & Integration Solution Using BizTalk Server 2006

And, as usual a dozen Pamplets from Microsoft & other supporting Third Parties.

The Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore is getting ready to change its name to Bengaluru. After Bombay to Mumbai, Madras to Chennai, Calcutta to kolkata  & its time for Bangalore to become Bengaluru. Name will be changed in the 50^th anniversary celebrations in November 2006.

Still I don't know why people are interested in changing the cities name ?

May be numerology  ????