Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/26/msi-cr650-scores-an-amd-e-350-zacate-apu/
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Source: http://lifehacker.com/5742045/why-the-limitations-of-ssds-are-actually-good
Let's take the higher cost of $500 for example and say you've purchased a 256GB SSD to upgrade your laptop. Straight out of the gate you have a leftover internal hard drive that you can either sell for about $50-75 or turn into an external. Being optimistic, you're down to $425. That's not a big savings overall, but if you upgrade your laptop every 1-2 years you can keep using the same SSD. When you buy a new laptop, remove its hard drive and swap it with the SSD in the old one. The old laptop you're going to sell will now have a larger capacity hard drive and you can charge a little extra when you sell it. Over three sales you'll probably make an additional $100, bringing us down to $325. When the time comes to upgrade to a new SSD, you can sell the original SSD alone or with your old computer. Mark up the cost of the machine by $325 and you've covered your original costs. $325 for an SSD laptop upgrade is a pretty good deal. Of course you'll need to buy a new SSD, but you'll have made back your money at this point while using your SSD for several years.
Note: SSDs don't last forever and performance can degrade over time with some models, so make sure you get a high-quality SSD that's rated for a long life if you're going to do this. You can use a tool like SSD Life to keep an eye on things.
For some of us, we have a massive collection of crap we find comforting. For others, the space is necessary for large media projects. I fall into both of these categories, but external drives solve the problems far better than trying to manage huge amounts of data on the main internal drive. First of all, you get the benefit of virtually limitless space for your stuff. Second, you can organize your stuff by the drive if that helps. Third, if you need additional protection offered by, say, RAID, you can get that with external drives whereas you're not going to get that with a laptop and some desktops. Ultimately, the size of the internal disk in your computer can actually be bad for you after a certain point. For me it's around 250GB (I only use 200GB but I like to keep about 50GB of space free). For some of you it may be as little as 128GB, a size where SSDs are significantly more affordable.
In the end, the size limitations are going to be better for you. You can hoard your crap on external drives, stay more organized, and reap the benefits of a super-fast solid-state disk in your laptop or desktop computer.
When you decide to take the plunge, be sure to read how to take full advantage of your solid-state drive.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5742206/tiltshift-generator-for-iphone
iPhone photo apps these days have some sort of setting for "tilt shift," the popular photographic effect that makes scenes look like elaborate (and adorable) sets of miniature models. TiltShift Generator actually lets you control the miniature-making parameters.
TiltShift Generator, iPhone, $1. Beginning as a popular web and Adobe AIR app, TiltShift Generator proved that you didn't need an expensive lens to make some pretty convincing tilt shift-y photographs. The iPhone app is the same idea—a dedicated, single-minded app for giving iPhone shots a quick and dirty tilt shift makeover. You can place the blur and adjust its radius, set sliders for saturation, brightness, contrast, and vignette effect, and save 'em to your photo roll. And they end up looking pretty damn good.
Budding iPhone photographers; people who want to feel like Godzilla compared to their iPhone photo subjects.
It gives you exactly the tools you need to make tilt shift photos on your iPhone 4 and shows you how to make them, with a built-in tutorial. It's cleanly designed, gives easy options for changing the export size of the photos, and it's only a buck.
Some other basic photo functions, like the ability to crop, would be welcome. And I wouldn't mind being able to tweak the settings in landscape to take advantage of all the real estate the iPhone has to offer.
We're always looking for cool apps—for iOS, Android, Windows Phone or whatever else—to feature as App of the Day. If you come across one you think we should take a look at, please let us know.
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