Canon PowerShot SX200 IS Specification :
General
* Product Type Digital camera – Compact
* Width 4.1 in
* Depth 1.5 in
* Height 2.4 in
* Weight 7.8 oz
* Enclosure Color Black
Main Features
* Resolution 12.1 megapixels
* Color Support Color
* Optical Sensor Type CCD
* Total Pixels 12,400,000 pixels
* Effective Sensor Resolution 12,100,000 pixels
* Light Sensitivity ISO 80 , ISO 100 , ISO 200 , ISO 400 , ISO 800 , ISO 1600 , ISO 3200 , ISO auto
* Digital Zoom 4 x
* Shooting Modes Frame movie mode
* Shooting Programs Snow , Beach , Indoor , Sunset , Foliage , Aquarium , Fireworks , Landscape , Kids & pets , Night scene , Portrait mode , Stitch assist , Night snapshot , High sensitivity
* Special Effects Sepia , Vivid , Vivid Red , Color Swap , Vivid Blue , Vivid Green , Color Accent , Black & White , Positive Film , Darker Skin Tone , Lighter Skin Tone
* Image Stabilizer Optical
* Max Shutter Speed 1/3200 sec
* Image stabilizer feature Optical stabilization helps prevent blurry pictures, especially for handheld cameras at slow shutter speeds or when using high optical zoom.
* Min Shutter Speed 15 sec
* Exposure Metering Spot , Evaluative , Center-weighted
* Exposure Modes Manual , Program , Automatic , Shutter-priority , Aperture-priority
* Exposure Compensation ±2 EV range, in 1/3 EV steps
* Face Detection Yes
* White Balance Custom , Presets , Automatic
* White Balance Presets Cloudy , Daylight , Fluorescent , Tungsten light
* Digital Video Format H.264
* Still Image Format JPEG
* TV Tuner None
* Video Capture H.264 – 640 x 480 , H.264 – 320 x 240 , H.264 – 1280 x 720
Memory / Storage
* Supported Flash Memory MultiMediaCard , SD Memory Card
* Floppy Drive None
* Image Storage Normal , Fine JPEG 4000 x 3000 , JPEG 3264 x 2448 , JPEG 2592 x 1944 , JPEG 1600 x 1200 , JPEG 640 x 480 , JPEG 4000 x 2248
Camera Flash
* Camera Flash Pop-up flash
* Flash Modes Auto mode , Fill-in mode , Slow synchro , Flash OFF mode , Red-eye reduction
* Red Eye Reduction Yes
* Effective Flash Range 1.6 ft – 10 ft
* Features AF illuminator , Flash +/- compensation
Lens System
* Type Zoom lens – 5 mm – 60 mm – F/3.4-5.3
* Focal Length 5 mm – 60 mm
* Focal Length Equivalent to 35mm Camera 28 – 336 mm
* Focus Adjustment Manual , Automatic
* Auto Focus TTL contrast detection
* Min Focus Range 19.7 in
* Macro Focus Range 2-50cm
* Lens Aperture F/3.4-5.3
* Optical Zoom 12 x
* Zoom Adjustment Motorized drive
* Lens Construction 9 group(s) / 11 element(s)
* Lens Manufacturer Canon
* Features UA lens , Aspherical lens , Built-in lens shield
Additional Features
* Self Timer Yes
* Self Timer Delay 2 sec , 10 sec
* Additional Features AE lock , FE lock , DPOF support , Direct print , Built-in speaker , Histogram display , Resizing an image , Exif Print support , PictBridge support , In-camera red-eye fix , USB 2.0 compatibility , Digital image rotation , Digital noise reduction , RGB primary color filter , Face Detection Self-timer , Blink Detection technology , Face Detection AF/AE/FE/WB , Scene Detection Technology , Motion Detection Technology , Camera orientation detection , I-Contrast (Intelligent Contrast Correction) system
Viewfinder
* Viewfinder Type None
Display
* Type LCD display – TFT active matrix – 3 in – Color
* Display Form Factor Built-in
* Display Format 230,000 pixels
Digital Player (Recorder)
* Type None
Microphone
* Type Microphone – Built-in
* Microphone Technology Electret condenser
* Microphone Operation Mode Mono
Connections
* Connector Type 1 x USB , 1 x Composite video/audio output , 1 x HDMI output
* Expansion Slot(s) 1 x SD Memory Card
Software
* Software Canon PhotoStitch , Canon ImageBrowser , Drivers & Utilities , Canon ZoomBrowser EX
System Requirements for PC Connection
* Operating System Support MS Windows Vista , MS Windows XP SP2 , Apple Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.5
* Peripheral Devices USB port , CD-ROM drive
Miscellaneous
* Included Accessories Wrist strap
* Cables Included 1 , 1 x A/V cable , USB cable
Power
* Power Device Battery charger – External
Battery
* Supported Battery Canon NB-5L
* Supported Battery 1 x Li-ion rechargeable battery ( Included )
Manufacturer Warranty
* Service & Support 1 year warranty
Environmental Parameters
* Min Operating Temperature 32 °F
* Max Operating Temperature 104 °F
Not-So-Famous First Tweets
• @ev (Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder)
“just setting up my twttr”
Evidently, he hadn’t yet set up his vowels.
• @biz (Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder)
“Ok we are in the car”
Well, it’s a step up from @ev’s first tweet — you’ve gotta give him that.
• @billgates (Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman)
“‘Hello World.’ Hard at work on my foundation letter – publishing on 1/25.”
Not nearly as exciting as the tweets Bill’s going to send in the future.
• @oprah (Oprah Winfrey, media mogul)
“HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .”
Odd; here I thought in the 21st century, we didn’t always type in all-caps. Who knew.
• @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, insert-your-own-description)
“dropping my first tweet”
The first of many morsels of wisdom to be shared by Twitter’s golden boy.
• @PerezHilton (Perez Hilton, insert-your-own-description once again)
“Hi! This is the real me, bitches. I’m not on MySpace or Facebook, but I decided to start Twittering. Yee Haw!”
Another medium to keep up with Mr. Hilton’s musings — just what the world needed.
• @ParisHilton (Paris Hilton, sex tape star)
“in Vegas at the Hard Rock with my Prince…”
The only Hilton arguably worse to follow than Perez.
• @alyankovic (“Weird Al” Yankovic, musician)
“tweet tweet!”
Then, after a two-week delay:
“Since people are complaining I haven’t tweeted enough, here’s the entire text of ‘Moby Dick’ by Herman Melville 140 characters at a time.”
God bless Weird Al.
• @Starbucks (Starbucks, coffee company)
“Welcome to Starbucks Twitter land!”
Amazing they aren’t charging $4 per tweet yet, eh? Now, if only they’d incorporate that Starbucks menu translating technology into their Twitter stream…
• @ActuallyNPH (Neil Patrick Harris, actor)
“My first tweet, peeps. I apologize in advance for my slow learning curve. Nice to (sort of) meet you. It’s amazing how quickly 140 charac”
Well-played, sir.
• @KimKardashian (Kim Kardashian, professional celebrity)
“Hey guys it’s Kim Kardashian! I finally signed up for Twitter! There are a few fakes so just know this is the real me!!!”
At least Kim’s willing to openly discuss her fakes.
• @jr_raphael (JR Raphael, humble scribe)
AppleInsider letters that sources abutting to the activity say the alleged iTablet – which is set to be apparent by Apple on Wednesday – is “redolent of a first-generation iPhone that’s met its bout with a rolling pin”.
It will be congenital in the aforementioned aluminium, unibody appearance as Apple’s MacBook range, and will affection aggregate controls, a ‘home’ button, and added architecture elements that will be accustomed to iPhone and iPod blow users. AppleInsider letters that it will accept a congenital apostle and microphone, chip GPS, so it knows area you are, and wireless connectivity over the 3G adaptable buzz arrangement as able-bodied as in Wi-Fi hot spots.
According to iLounge, a website committed to Apple news, sources accept adumbrated that the iTablet will accept two berth connectors, which will acquiesce the accessory to be docked, answerable and acclimated in account and mural mode.
Verizon and AT&T are appear to be in talks with Apple in the United States about accustomed the iTablet on their buzz networks. It is rumoured that Apple will barrage two versions of the iTablet – one that runs on CDMA networks, such as that acclimated by Verizon, and addition that is accordant with GSM networks, as acclimated by AT&T. AT&T is Apple’s absolute arrangement accomplice for the iPhone in the United States, although complaints about poor arrangement advantagnd patchy account accept accepted damaging for the operator, and Apple may be abhor to add to the arrangement ache with addition data-hungry device.
But a abstraction from ChangeWave Research appear that aloof 18 per cent of the bodies they questioned would be absorbed in affairs an Apple tablet. The analysis asked 3,314 business, technology and medical professionals how acceptable they would be to buy the “iTablet”, if and back it is launched. Four per cent said they were “very likely” to buy one, while 14 per cent said they were “somewhat likely”. Three-quarters of those questioned said they would be accommodating to $500 or added for the device, while 37 per cent said they would pay in balance of $700. Industry experts accept the iTablet will amount about $1,000 and will initially be accessible in the US afore a added launch.
via : telegraph.co.uk
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News
Bill Gates, the architect of Windows-maker Microsoft, has launched a claimed website for the aboriginal time, and is announcement it as “An central attending at all-around matters”. In his greeting to new users of GatesNotes.com, he writes “since abrogation my fulltime job at Microsoft to address added time to our [charitable] foundation, a lot of bodies accept asked me what I’m alive on. I’m advantageous because the bodies I’m alive with and acquirements from are accurate experts in their fields. I booty a lot of addendum [and] I anticipation it would be absorbing to allotment these conversations added broadly with a website.”
He goes on to say that his achievement is that the armpit will “get added bodies cerebration and acquirements about the issues I anticipate are absorbing and important.”
The move, afterward on from the billionaire’s Twitter admission yesterday, marks the alpha of his concerted accomplishment to advance an online persona that will affix with users in a way that corporations accept never been able to master. Themes accommodate sustainability, the contempo convulsion in Haiti, all-around pandemics and apprenticeship reform.
The capacity on GatesNotes.com are aggregate into “What I’m Cerebration About”, “What I’m Learning”, “My Travels” and “Curious Classroom”. Gates has additionally advised Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s latest book on economics, “Super Freakonomics”.
via: telegraph.co.uk
The plane was headed to Ethiopia. About 50 of the passengers were Lebanese, the official said.
Ethiopian Airlines plane crashes into Mediterranean sea
The plane took off shortly after its scheduled time of 3:10 a.m. (0010 GMT), flying south-west.
According to the Ethiopian Airlines website, the flight from Beirut was bound for Addis Ababa.
It had been scheduled to land at Addis Ababa at 7:50am local time.
According to one source, residents on the coast saw a plane on fire crashing.
Rescuers were trying to reach the plane to determine whether there were any survivors.
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This is the Fiat Punto Evo, the revised version of the Grande Punto that will be displayed at this month’s Frankfurt motorshow and go on sale in the UK Spring 2010.
As well as a mild restyling, the Fiat Punto Evo gets an updated engine range that includes the innovative 1.4-litre petrol Multiair unit. The Multiair system works by allowing direct control of air and combustion in engines, cylinder by cylinder and stroke by stroke, without the use of a conventional throttle. It saves energy wasted in traditional systems, cutting fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by around 10% over a comparable standard engine, and increasing power by up to 10% and torque by up to 15%. It can also reduce particulate emissions by up to 40% and NOx emissions by up to 60%. Fiat plans to fit the technology to all its engines in coming years.
Other engines in the range include a new 1.3-litre Multijet diesel, which features a new common-rail injector that reduces consumption by around 2% and NOx emissions by 30%, plus methane and LPG units that boost the car’s eco credentials but which won’t be on sale in the UK. This emits 115g/km of CO2. Fiat is also fitting stop-start as standard on all its Euro5-compliant petrol and diesel engines.
Fiat says the interior has been completely reworked, while the exterior has been tweaked by the addition of new bumpers and light clusters. The car is slightly longer than before, at 406cm from 403cm. All other dimensions are the same.
The Punto Evo has seven airbags as standard, including a driver’s knee-bag. Options include a hill holder function to make hillstarts easier, and adaptive cornering fog lights that switch on according to the angle of steering and a new sat-nav system is also available. Called Blue&Me-TomTom, it allows the driver to manage telephone, sat-nav and information systems via a single colour touch screen.
Johnny Depp’s car was begin forth ancillary a alley alfresco Bordeaux, France, with the bouncer abuse anchored abysmal central the car. A day-tripper was active bottomward the alley back he saw a car bones alongside the road. He stepped out and approved to see if anyone was in there while his wife dialed the badge for help.
To his dismay, he begin the a anatomy in the car amid liquor bottles. The badge accustomed at the arena anon afterwards and pulled out the anatomy of the above actor, Johnny Depp. The badge doubtable that alcohal was the account of the accident.
Source:angelfire.com
Our spy photographers accept bent the aboriginal images of Suzuki’s 2011 Swift three-door hatchback. Spied ability winter testing, the mule is heavily buried which makes it adamantine to actuate what the archetypal will attending like back it is clearly unveiled. Regardless, the Swift is accepted to affection adventurous styling, a Kizashi-inspired grille, swept-back headlights, and characteristic taillights.
Under the hood, the Swift will be powered by a array of petrol and agent engines. Petrol options will acceptable accommodate a 1.2-liter and a 1.6-liter with 92 kW (125 hp) and 148 Nm of torque. Eventually, Suzuki may acquaint a amalgam alternative agnate to the 2009 Swift Plug-in Amalgam Concept. If ammunition abridgement isn’t your primary concern, you may be absorbed to apprentice Suzuki could action the Swift with all-wheel drive. The redesigned Swift will go on auction in 2010 and will be accessible in the United States for the aboriginal time.
Pagani said that the new C9, which will accept the 6.0-liter V-12 agent developed calm with Mercedes-Benz and AMG, will be alien appear the end of the year. Peak achievement will angle at about 700hp and 737 pound-feet of torque. It’s notable that the Zonda R produces 750hp; however, the new C9 still has abundant ability to attempt with Ferrari and Lamborghini. Pagani declared the C9 to be a absolutely new car, from concept, weight distribution, abstracts and dynamics. In fact, it will affection added than 3,770 new genitalia amid which are a carbon-titanium chassis, distinctively developed Pirelli tires and Bosch electronics. While administration will be actual agnate to the Zonda, the C9’s all-embracing accommodation will be smaller. The C9 is advancing to be priced from $1.2 million.
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