Dell Latitude D430 – A Good rig for the Road Warrior

19 09 2008

Anybody who has ever used or owned a laptop always wishes for a unit that has a powerful processor, huge ram, tons of hard disk space but is lightweight. Ask any seasoned road warrior who has to carry work while on travel – their primary requirement is a light laptop that has the juice to keep up with their computing requirement. I haven’t been that much of a road warrior for months now but I still prefer a light yet powerful notebook.

Recently, I was issued a Dell Latitude D430 laptop and not being a fan of Dell computers, I was skeptical of how the computer would perform. When I first saw the box that the laptop came in with, I told myself that it could be a mother of a laptop: bulky and heavy.

I was wrong.
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Photography: Dancing with Light

19 09 2008

Sunset shot off the Manila Bay

Sunset shot off the Manila Bay

Photography is all about light. No matter what color your subject has or fantastic textures that you see around you that you want to take a picture of, without light all you’d get is black.  Light can either make your or break you. Sure, focus and composition is important but without light, your fancy lens that lets you focus to our hearts desire won’t be much worth of a darn.  Even the best composed, sharply focused image won’t make a pretty photo without light.

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