When traveling with a digital camera you can snap away and it isn't long before you have captured hundreds of pictures. It can be quite a drag, however, when you find that you are running out of memory.
As a result, digital camera fanatics have been racking their brains to find out what can be done to shake off the hassle of changing memory sticks when they are on a photo-snapping spree.
To satisfy an increasingly demanding public, innovative manufacturers of electronic products have recently come up with a novel idea to store, view and share digital photos, movies and music -- all in a hassle-free way.
What they have come up with has been temporarily termed by some a "portable photo storage viewer."
Though an official name for the device has yet to be settled, some manufacturers are calling this sleek gadget with huge storage space a Portable Media Player (PMP), while yet others have named it a Personal Video Player (PVP).
Whatever it's called, it turns the tables on the notion of a portable music player, also known as an MP3 player, by supplying images in addition to sound.
The PMP (or PVP) offers far more than what a simple photo player can provide. It displays not only photographs, but also plays your favorite videos. Music can also be accessed and enjoyed at the press of a few buttons -- wherever you are and without worrying about when you will run out of memory. The various models launched by different manufacturers all feature a built-in 20GB hard drive for storage.
In addition to the huge storage space, a PMP likely sports a crystal-clear 3.5-inch TFT-LCD screen with 320 by 240 pixel resolution and 262,000 colors.
You can also download audio content directly into the player from other home or portable devices and it supports video playback in a number of formats such as AVI, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI video files, and even MPEG-4, which is why it has also been called an "MP4 Player"
The PC savvy and early movers in the tech scene may also be concerned about the price, size, and battery life of this killer toy, but there is little to worry about in this department.
This all-encompassing device can be seen as your personal entertainment center and it also has great potential for commercial use.
Hypermarkets, outlets, convenience stores and so forth can use it as an electronic catalogue to advertise their goods, and salespeople can flaunt their products via this eye-catching gadget.
If you are in the market for a better way to store, carry around and share your photos, music and movies, you will definitely dig this hand held portable digital media player.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
The following three paragraphs are just some of what the local Chinese-language press is reporting on breathlessly and following every twist and turn with the eagerness of a soap opera fan. For many English-language readers, it probably comes across as incomprehensibly opaque, so bear with me briefly dear reader: To the surprise of many, former pop singer and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-lawmaker Yu Tien (余天) of the Taiwan Normal Country Promotion Association (TNCPA) at the last minute dropped out of the running for committee chair of the DPP’s New Taipei City chapter, paving the way for DPP legislator Su
It’s hard to know where to begin with Mark Tovell’s Taiwan: Roads Above the Clouds. Having published a travelogue myself, as well as having contributed to several guidebooks, at first glance Tovell’s book appears to inhabit a middle ground — the kind of hard-to-sell nowheresville publishers detest. Leaf through the pages and you’ll find them suffuse with the purple prose best associated with travel literature: “When the sun is low on a warm, clear morning, and with the heat already rising, we stand at the riverside bike path leading south from Sanxia’s old cobble streets.” Hardly the stuff of your
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist