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One Picture = 1000 Words. Philips Digital Photo Display = Priceless.

If each picture is worth a thousand words, then the Philips Digital Photo Display is well worth an entire story (and then some). 

Everyone loves pictures. And in this day and age, that presents a problem. With digital cameras being all the rage and with almost every Tom, Dick and Harry sporting one on their hips, there are now too many pictures to keep track of. 

That translates to too many memories that can’t be shared, most of which wind up lost in your PC or laptop, not to be seen by anyone but you. 

It’s natural for people to want their pictures to be displayed, but printing every one of your shots and buying frames from them is a bit unreasonable and more than a little expensive. And just uploading them onto a website takes away the charm of having it in your home for all to see. 

The Philips Digital Photo Display is the answer to this quandary. Able to store several digital pictures in each exquisitely designed frame, it can display your most cherished memories in sharp detail akin to professional printed photographs thanks to its high pixel density. 

The grandeur of the slideshow of photos is only enhanced by each frame’s award winning design. The Philips Digital Photo Display features four different frames, allowing anyone to choose what best suits their pictures or their taste. 

There’s even a great deal of convenience behind the Philips Digital Photo Display’s obvious aesthetic appeal. Photos can be uploaded directly from a camera’s memory card or USB, eliminating the need for a PC. What’s more, it can be set to turn on and off at pre-set times to conserve energy or save its battery. 

The Philips Digital Photo Display is a great gift everyone can enjoy. Though it comes across as a bargain at liGo, what it displays is priceless.

Rugged Radios Keep up with Dad — and Keep Him in Touch

June’s coming up, any idea’s for a Father’s Day present? Here’s a great idea for this Father’s Day for the adventurous dad—the Motorola Talkabout T5622. Loaded with an array of features, the Motorola Talkabout T5622 enables him to do the outdoor activities he enjoys, and at the same time helps keep him in touch with the people he loves.

The affordable T5622 two-way radios come with a variety of features to help keep dad in-touch and informed during expeditions and other outdoor activities. Lightweight and robust with rugged side grips, the compact T5622 radios are designed to support a range of up to 3 kilometres, offering dependable communication even in remote areas not covered by mobile phones. The radios are also equipped with Push To Talk (PTT) technology which helps conserve battery life.

When in quiet environments, dad will appreciate the VibraCall feature, which silently alerts him to incoming transmissions by vibrating. When used with Motorola’s optional PTT earbuds (an additional purchase, though) dad can communicate in the outdoors without disturbing wildlife.

The Doro WT89 fulfills your secret agent fantasies

The Doro WT89 is a walkie-talkie. It does what any other two-way radio does–transmit signals to another radio within the range of a particular frequency, and receive similar signals.

So, what’s the fuss all about?

Well, the Doro WT89 is definitely not your ordinary walkie-talkie. Although it performs like one (with exceptionally clair audio, one must add) it doesn’t look like one. In fact, it looks rather like a rugged sports watch–the kind of watch one would wear while skiing or while doing some other similar outdoor activity. It doesn’t give any visual clues as to its real identity as a two-way radio until it starts crackling.

And that’s what hooks you into the WT89–the almost James Bond-like feeling you get when you wear it and use it, fulfilling all little boys’ (and for that matter, grown boys, too) fantasies of being a secret agent.

Don’t worry, though, after you get over the secret thrill, the Doro WT89 still delivers in the features department, with an advertised range of up to 3 kilometres, making it ideal for a variety of outdoor pursuits–running, skiing, hiking, sky diving, you name it.

On testing we managed to get 2km range out of the watches with a good reception, which is a lot more than we’ve seen in the past from similar models. Communication is free, and no licence is needed. The 8 selectable channels and 38 sub codes to each channel increases privacy through channel selection which gives over 300 different channel combinations. Definitely a piece of electronics good enough even for James Bond.

The Philips PhotoFrame is Best in Class

Compared to its competitors, the Philips PhotoFrame seems almost too simple. One competitor boasts Wi-Fi capabilities; another competitor can play MP3s; while yet another competitor plays .avi videos. The PhotoFrame has none of these fancy bells and whistles. Then again, though all those special features are all well and good, none of the competition can beat the Philips PhotoFrame what it’s meant to do: display your digital photos.

The PhotoFrame has a bright seven-inch LCD (800 x 480 pixels), surrounded by a matte-silver border. It supports SD, MMC, MS, CF, and xD Cards. We loaded our photos with an SD Card and were very impressed with how vibrant they looked on the frame. The PhotoFrame automatically detects the orientation of an image and rotates it accordingly. A built-in PhotoEffect Wizard lets you crop, zoom, and create collages. The PhotoFrame can also display the time and date along with your photos.

In contrast, Competitor 1 has a comparably good LCD screen, but has a great number of hidden costs–such as for the Wi-Fi feature–that are nearly superfluous. Competitor 2 is ok, but has problems reading certain file formats. Competitor 3’s LCD display is dark, the colors come out dull and lifeless, and is smaller than the advertised 7-inches.

The Philips Photoframe doesn’t skimp on the small details, either. With its controls hidden at the back, the frame itself looks sleek and lovely. The PhotoFrame is made from materials of the best quality, so one needn’t worry about buying a short-lived home electronic product that was merely a waste of money. The interface and controls are intuitive and thus easy to operate, which adds even more value to an already great product.

The Philips PhotoFrame is certainly the best digital photo display available today. There’s something great to be said about simplicity, after all.

The Samsung SF560: the ultimate business fax

Samsung’s business solutions takes pride in creating smarter business through smarter technology. Now, the entrepreneur with the small- or medium-sized business can benefit as well from Samsung’s smart solutions with the SF560, the business fax that’s perfect for sharing in any busy office. Built to stand the rigorous conditions, it’s more than a match for the challenges of a growing business–not to mention that its multi-functionality saves both space and money, two things that are scarce for any start-up.
A smarter office is a more efficient office. Work gets done faster because of Samsung’s high speed fax functionality, copier and scanner functions, and network-compatible system that allows it to function as a network printer, as well. Remember how some days work would stall because some blockhead jammed the machine? Bid goodbye to that scenario with the SF560’s document skew feeder. There’s no big machine to impede the flow of people in the office, either because of the SF560’s small footprint.
A smarter office is an office that reduces waste and unnecessary spending. The SF560 features Samsung’s Push and Save feature, which significantly reduces ink, paper and toll usage. Just by pressing the Toner Save Button, you can reduce toner usage by up to 40%.
Last but most importantly, a smarter office is always prepared for any contingency. with a 250 sheet paper supply, 20 sheet automatic document feeder, 100 Speed dials, and an astounding 92hr battery back-up, the SF560 is a fax machine ready to face any challenge.
The Samsung SF560, the ultimate business fax, truly delivers smarter business and smarter technology to meet any business’ communication needs.

Small but Perfectly Formed: Panasonic’s New Multi-Function Fax Machine

Owners of fledging businesses can sometimes feel like there is no-one to listen to them or understand their needs. And when it comes to finding the right technology resources to meet the demands of a new venture, where do they start? Luckily, Panasonic Business Systems has just launched it latest multi-function laser fax machine–small enough to fit into a small office space, yet packed with all the features the new entrepreneur needs.
With the new Panasonic Laser Fax (KL-FL511E), there’s no need to make room for a separate printer, photocopier and fax machine–nor is there any need to spend more for two separate machines.
The Laser Fax (KL-FL511E) is the ultimate digital assistant. Though it may look just like a conventional fax machine, it’s a superb high-speed printer, photocopier, and corded telephone with superior audio quality. It’s designed for fast, efficient fax transmission at speeds up to 33.6kbps (12 pages per minute). It’s speed and efficiency will certainly minimise costs. The quality of the printing and copying is kept to a professional standard due to the laser technology, and is quite economical as well, with a toner life that will last you 2500 pages worth of printing, copying, and faxes.
Like any good entrepreneur, the Laser Fax can multi-task efficiently as well, with a memory large enough to store 170 document pages on queue while sending a different fax. To top everything off, the machine is easily connected to your Windows PC.
Saving you space, time, and money–all in a neat and efficient package–the Laser Fax (KL-FL511E) is the hardworking entrepreneur’s choice.

Award-Winning PhotoFrame from Philips

In keeping with the company’s vision of “sense and simplicity” in consumer electronics, Philips’ PhotoFrame 9FF2M4 stood out from the rest of the pack and won in the annual iF Product Design Competition. It was not a surprise to many that the Philips Photo Frame received the award out of the thousands of entries. If one talks about an innovative, extremely useful (not to mention aesthetically pleasing) electronic product for the modern home, one need not look further than the Philips PhotoFrame.
The designers at Philips wanted to respond to an increasingly common dilemma in the modern home: digital cameras it so much easier and cheaper for people to take photos any time, anywhere…but what to do with all those photographs stored on your computer?
The Philips PhotoFrame made it possible for one to display her digital photographs at home without having to make costly (and often short-lived) prints. Instead of having to tediously place individual prints in a frame, the sleek, durable PhotoFrame instead cycles through one’s digital photographs—without the need for a PC!
A high-resolution digital display does justice to all your photographs, delivering crystal-clear images with bright, nearly true-to-life colors. Add a superb design, customizable coloured frames, and quality materials, and you have the next big thing in home accessories. The Philips PhotoFrame is definitely not an ordinary photo frame.
The iF Product Design Competition is one of the most prestigious design competitions in the world. With more than 20 internationally acclaimed jurors—consisting of designers and entrepreneurs, this year’s iF competition drew over 2000 competing entries from various industries from more than 30 countries worldwide. Since its inception in 1953, the iF competition has been acknowledged as one of the world’s arbiters of product functionality and quality. This year, Philips won a total of seventeen awards in six categories for a variety of consumer electronics.

Access Wi Fi Networks With Ease and then Some

A disaffection with the inconvenient afflicts a great many of us. This is also the primary reason why there are still people out there who don’t make any discernible effort whatsoever to own a Wifi Phone and nor do some of them have the inclination to do so, in the first place. Why? There seems to be a pervading belief that acquiring a connection to Wi Fi networks is a wee bit difficult to establish.

Follows then that the next thing that the big guys and gals in the Digital industry are going to get busy over are devices that would perk these things up, gadgets that would facilitate the hook-up procedure so that it could get a move on, much more quickly—without the nagging delays, the troublesome dial-up mishaps and general misfortunes that accompany such tedious encounters.
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Tech Addiction: So? Part Two

This is often the result that one expects from claims that fail to reach a commendable and satisfying resolution. Indeed, such statements must be reconsidered, lest they be swallowed by some e-consumers out there. Awareness of such concerns shape and play a crucial role in how we perceive technologies and of how we locate ourselves in relation to them, which is, in turn, essential to how we can build a society steeped with digitally conscious individuals.

Thus, the tech addiction that the average consumer experiences from is simply a noticeable effect that springs from the inevitable exposure to current and still emerging technologies. In a world that changes and shifts with the wind, one cannot expect to steer one’s choices by such things but one can learn to adapt. And that is exactly what we are doing.
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Tech Addiction: So?

In one article loosely describing the typical sort of tech addiction prevalent in a great number of individuals in countless societies around the world today, especially among college crowds—and of how it induces a great many of those individuals to engage in bouts of destructive envy—it becomes quite clear that this trend is being sternly frowned upon rather than enjoyed.

With the mounting reliance most of us have on the gadgets we live with—from cordless phones, headsets, web cameras and scores of other e-devices that we keep in that trusty bag of e-gears we lug around with us wherever we chance to go—the fact that some still view such dependence in a negative way speaks volumes of how most of us still keep to a decidedly skewed perspective on such things.
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