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Nikon D3000 – great budget DSLR with awesome features

10 Apr 2010

For most of the people professional photography means expensive cameras and costly equipment with price tags somewhere around $1500.00. Not for me – i was lucky enough to be given Nikon D3000 for my birthday and i must say i love it. By the way – Best Buy now has it on sale – go check it out.

Besides professional modes on the settings dial it has your regular point-and-shoot camera options for portrait, landscape, sport and auto mode. So you can experiment with aperture and ISO in pro-mode and if fail switch back to the basic ones, shooting awesome quality pictures. Camera kit lens, which are included with this one are great for taking not only portrait photos, but for shooting almost anything.

Take a look at those i took not so long ago in Central Park:

Zip a folder on the server with php

16 Jan 2009

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I have a spent a day today figuring how to zip a client’s web site folder on a Godaddy shared Linux hosting today (they made sure users don’t have SSH access on those) in order to transfer it to another server. Apparently, given the limitations of the account setup the best way was to write a php script by executing which i would zip the given folder contents, so that then i could copy just one file and unzip it on the target server.

And it can’t be easier than that – if you have a folder, which contains a number of other folders and files in them the script below lets you add to the zip file quickly and easily:

Nokia N75 – de-branding and updating firmware

08 Nov 2008

Hacks

Nokia N75 promo

Nokia N75 has had a huge success as a first descent USA 3G phone and is being used by many, but little do you know that Cingular/AT&T had removed some of the features from its firmware. Of course there is an official, Nokia-branded firmware available to make your phone more stable. This procedure is called de-branding. In case you are looking to do it now – look further down: continue reading »

Nokia N810 WiMax edition review

07 Nov 2008

Reviews

Nokia N810 WiMax edition

Update: Even the device is no longer available, as well as XOMH network, I have decided to keep this post. See, I liked all things Nokia at the time and thinking this review is a good trip down memory lane for Finnish phone maker.

There is a lot of excitement going on now about Sprint’s XOHM network, which is promising blazing internet speeds with coverage sized a huge city-shaped hot spot. Now, we know about cell network data capabilities with major providers, recently started pushing their broadband network cards with unlimited data plans, but XOHM network is promised to deliver something new with cable-like speeds over the air.