While checking out my Japanese stocks portfolio this morning, I noticed Canon Inc. had enjoyed a healthy rally. So I visited its website to see whether it had announced any new product. There was indeed a new product announcement made on 12th June, but it wasn’t anything that we in Hong Kong are used to associate it with Canon.
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jpowers55 left me a message on my “Apple 3rd Gen iPod Nano in Action” video at YouTube this morning about whether he could watch a 2-3 hour movie on an iPod Nano or whether it would be better to play it on something with a bigger screen. I cannot speak for him, but I certainly have watched many hours of TV shows and movies on my Nano.
My videos obviously have not convinced jpowers55 that Nano is a very “watchable” video player, so I took a picture with my iPod Touch placed above my iPod Nano, both paused at the same time frame of The 11th Hour (oops, I only just noticed that they are slightly out of sync with the Nano missing the lower third). Anyway, I figured to make it even more convincing, cause jpowers55 has obviously never seen a Nano playing videos in real, I needed to put the two iPods in context with something that jpowers55 can relate to. So I placed my Nokia N82 next to my iPod as a reference of their actual screen sizes.
I will let the readers to judge whether a Nano can be watched playing videos for hours. In my opinion, if one can stand texting and reading messages on a cellphone, watching movies on a Nano can actually be a treat to one’s eyes.
As to the question of whether it is better to watch movies on a player with bigger screen, the answer is obviously yes. It is always better to watch anything with a bigger screen. But choosing a portable multimedia player almost always involves trading off quality with portability. How much and what to trade off, however, cannot be generalized as it is up to one’s own personal preference to make that call. As for myself, I have settled to own two players of different size to complement each other.
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Now that I have decided to say goodbye to my Nokia N95, I have to fix the volume hard keys that I had broken when I dropped the phone while crossing a street in Osaka last month. That drop is costly as I just found out at Nokia it would cost HK$360 to replace the casings. Fixing the volume keys doesn’t cost though as they couldn’t tell whether it was damaged by me or just normal wear and tear. When I checked out last night with my favourite second hand phone dealer at Causeway Bay without the phone with me, she said she would pay me HK$3,000 for a N95 in mint condition. I wonder if she would consider mine as in mint condition. Well, I guess just as long as the difference is less than HK$360, I will sell it to her. Otherwise, I will try to sell it on eBay and then let the winner to decide whether the case should be replaced. It is a bit annoying that I have to write the description for this photo in a single paragraph. There is no way I can begin a new paragraph in ShoZu. I hope they can improve it in the next version. It would be nice to have built-in spellcheck too. Like TypePad Mobile, it has the same limitation that only one photogragh can be commented for each entry. I can’t insert multiple photographs into the same entry to tell a more “photographic” story. I will have to edit this entry at my blogs after the upload to add additional photos and videos to spice this message up. And, of course, breaking it up into paragraphs.
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My eligibility for next year’s grade 8 piano exam has yet to be confirmed, pending the result of the theory exam I took last month. It doesn’t bother me at all whether I pass it or not. I didn’t start learning the piano again to pass exams. I am learning and taking exams at my own pace. I don’t want to spoil my learning experience. But, of course, it would be nice to passing the theory exam as it opens the door to more advanced learnings. In any case, I have discussed with Kimberly last week and decided to start preparing for the grade 8 practical exam now. I am not taking the 6th grade because I think it would not be a challenge and I am skipping the 7th grade because there is not a single Mozart in its syllabus. I love the Mozart sonatas. I have learned K330, which was an exam piece for this year’s grade 8 exam, even though I know I won’t be able to seat for the exam this year. And I am still enjoying it every time I practice it. I am so thankful that I have developed a passion for each of yoga and piano in the last two years. They have not only changed my life but also given me a lot of joyful experiences which my new TyTN II and KU990 don’t even come close to offer.
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This is the room where I have been learning piano each Tuesday for the past 6 months or so. I have been assigned to at least three different rooms since I started learning with Kimberly at Tom Lee last May. This room is the smallest of the three though. The door is just behind my back when I take my seat.
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Haven’t worn a mask in a vey long time. Probably since SARS. This is my first upload using ShoZu which I had only just signed up this morning. I have been trying TypePad Mobile and Yahoo Go on my TyTN II in the last couple of days to upload photos. Both manage to do the basic job of uploading pretty well but they have their own shortcomings beyond uploads. For instance, TypePad Mobile obviously wouldn’t help me to upload to other web services and so does Yahoo Go, which will only upload to Flickr. Since I have accounts on both platforms, it would mean I have to upload twice for every picture I take on my TyTN II. ShoZu solves my problem by offering to upload a photo together with description and tags to not just Flickr and TypePad, but almost all the web 2.0 services, like wordpress, YouTube and Facebook. This is what a call a killer app. It also means I can remove two programs from my TyTN II to save space
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