Archive for the ‘Digital Camera’ Category

Duty Free Oz or Changi Airport?

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I intend purchasing a duty-free digital camera, where would be best? Cairns or Changi airport.? I have two hours in Changi…  thanks.. Links would be appreciated. ) — View my aircraft pictures: "http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=1753"

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Almost always a discount retailer in Australia (Ted’s Camera in Brisbane or Photocontinental – [...]

Lost Luggae Payouts increase.

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> :>I never have figured out how they do customs when international baggage > :>is late but  it does appear to get delivered. > Normal green line random checking (unless, of course, you declare something > within the bag). > The airline will usually ask for the keys when you [...]

Brazilian EMB-120 crash

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>Perhaps someone in/on the helicopters going to/from the site took along a >digital camera. Assume this individual had/has a "Taste for Porn". Further >assume this individual offered to trade the "Pic’s" for free access to the >porn site in question for a given period of time is 1 scenario for; "How [...]

The World Wide Web on the World Wide Sea

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> Great work! > Here’s one nit, the Java lounge thumbnail on day 2 is linked to the WWW > antenna. > Jim
Thank you, Jim. The broken link has been corrected. Bill http://americahurrah.com/Cruises/Ryndam/daytwo.htm

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Just returned from ten days on HAL’s Ryndam to Baja California and the Mexican [...]

Electric fuel pumps suck.

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Fuel cooling is nothing new.  Did you all know that the GE engines on many airlines use fuel to cool the engine control computers?  For example, the GE-90 Engine control has fuel running through the computer chassis on it’s way to the engine.  This serves the dual purposes of cooling the [...]

digital camera zoom ??

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>Essentially, optical zoom uses optics to produce the zoom, where digital zoom >proceses the picture using the internal computer in the camera.  Since the >computer can only process what it has, enlarging a picture digitally will >reduce the sharpness as compared to the same enlargement using optics.
A digital zoom is [...]

Sydney store for US (Canada) – Aussie electrical plug?

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The subject says it: looking for a store in Sydney where I can find an adapter to the US/Canada electrical plug. The ones they sell here only have the two angles pins, not the ground. It still might work, but I’d rather get the correct plug and I’m sure it’s sold somewhere [...]

Internet Cafe's

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Hi, I’m coming to Oz in March and I’m thinking of buying a digital camera to take with me. Only I am intending to backpack so I wont have a laptop or anything. Will I be able to upload the pictures from a digital camera to a website in an internet [...]

reward money

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Hey All, Congrats to anyone who has or is in the process of quitting. Just wondering what people have spent their money on that they saved from not smoking?  And how people have rewarded themselves. The first time I quit I got a tattoo after 6 months (nothing smoking related). [...]

labadee question

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My wife and I will be visiting Labadee in February on the Explorer of the Seas. Some questions for those who have visited here before: 1. Should I leave my digital camera on board while we enjoy the beach? My thinking was I’d leave it in the safe until we were finished [...]