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I'm Sony Lin, and I welcome you to SonyLin.NET. If you love this website or feeling something useful here, please feel free to bookmark or favourites this site! For those of you who are interested to buy prints, notes, note book, blank papers, business cards and other things, you can help me by opening my Printing Company's page and then ordering your needs there. Our staff will be in touch with you soon! For those of you who wanted to buy laser cutting, laser engraving machine, CNC router, textile machinery (Rapier Loom) and their spare parts (Rapier Head, Rapier Belt), you can help me by ordering them from our company PT. Golden Sun Indonesia. Then I will contact you in person! Please visit The Shop for my future online shop. Today it was called The Shop, while I'm waiting for name suggestion from readers. Currently the engine for The Shop is being written and hopefully finished soon. What is new & update: 1st February 2010, I've fixed the bug on the advertisement above this website, however the picture now has frame. I'm looking for a way to remove it. Hopefully tonight everything can be fixed. 28th January 2010, As always, everyone is asking me to change to Blackberry or iPhone when they saw my mobile phone. I admit my mobile phone's built quality is not really good and looks cheap. The mobile phone is now 1 year old and starting to buckle right after the warranty expires. The first thing is its microSD card slot now hardly accepts the card. Sometimes the card just jumps out of the slot and it requires me up to 20 times of pushing the card to get it back in. The other problem lies on the battery cover latch, which is now broken and the cover is not sitting as firmly as it sould. Well, its software and vital hardware still function flawlessly anyway. Back to my choice, the most important thing is my Samsung i780 is not a mobilephone. It is a handheld computer phone that can do the thing I do. For your information, here I will share the things I do with my mobile phone. I always travel from one city to another, and I wanted to travel as light and safe as possible. My laptop is small, however sometimes I just don't want to carry it around, especially when visiting unknown territory since bringing a laptop bag will increase the my visibility to pickpockets. Keeping a laptop in a car's trunk is not a very good idea either since your LCD might be spoilt in the process. I needed something that can function as a laptop without all the weight and visibility. The answer is a handheld computer with internal modem and telephony function. Often I received a phone call from a customer, and while talking I needed to write his or her requirements and make a quotation for my customer. On more extreme case, I received a phone call from my customer asking about product specification and price, and he wanted to wait my answer directly on phone. Often weird questions were asked as well and requires me to email the quotation just after the phone ends. I of course needed to switch between the brochure, price list, word processor and email application, so my customer can receive the official quotation just after he or she hangs up the phone. My jobs requires me to be quick, and the quicker the process, the hotter the customer will be. Meaning the deal could happens while the customer is hot with fresh mind of information. Opening a laptop will render the customer bored. I also often receives an email from my people in the office to be forwarded to my customers. However before forwarding the email, I needed to check and fix any mistake on it as sometimes mistake do happens (wrong names or address are the one that most often happened). I needed to switch between the Contact and Email application. Blackberry (at least Bold 4.x) just can't edit forwarded email. The key for good multitasking is the OK button on my handheld computer phone, the equivalent to Alt-Tab in my laptop (I don't say in Windows since my handheld computer phone is also Windows). All Windows handheld computer has task switching function which may or may not be enabled by default. Now my question is: can an iPhone or Blackberry do the thing I require? I have access to iPhone and BlackBerry and they just couldn't cut to my job and my requirements. iPhone has no multitasking, which I use extensively and Blackberry's multitasking sucks as I find there is always no way to use jump between applications. iPhone and Blackberry are mobile phone and on a different class with my handheld computer phone. Plus combination of touch screen and physical keypad. iPhone's software keypad mode renders the screen size small, while my handheld computer phone's screen stay the same no matter I use hardware keypad or not. Moreover iPhone's keypad lacks the click feeling, which I really love from physical keypad. Blackberry on the other hand, lacks of touch screen and making navigation a pain: you need to move the mouse cursor to click your screen. Finger is the best pointing device, iPhone shares this philosophy. Keypad is the best typing device, and Blackberry shares this philosophy. I admit I phone's touch screen is very good, much more sensitive than the touch screen on my handheld computer phone. However my handheld computer phone has the best of both world. Using either iPhone or Blackberry made me feel handicapped. The conclusion is I have no reason to downgrade my handheld computer phone to a mobile phone. If one day I needed to upgrade my handheld computer phone (HCP), that would be another HCP running Windows Mobile 7. As a bonus, with my handheld computer phone I don't need any other garbage like Netbook or iPad. They serve the same purpose and my mobile phone has even more function: telephony, video and photo recording all from my hand. I doubt I can hold a Netbook or iPad singlehandedly and as stealthy as I do with my handheld computer phone. Androids Nexus? I can't say about the Android Nexus as I have no access to them. Venice The original Venice is located in Italy, Amsterdam is called Venice of the North, Suzhou is called Venice of Asia, Indonesia on the other hand, has its own version of Venice. Venice of Equator: Pontianak, a city located on the middle of the Earth on 0 Latitude, in the Equator. I visited Pontianak few days ago to visit my friend. I did not bring my trusty DSLR, and my HCP is the best camera I had. As you can see, Pontianak was divided by Kapuas river, the largest and longest river in Indonesia. People live on the river bank, and some even live the river's by creating floating house. I've never taught that Pontianak is very beautiful, and on my next visit I swear I'll bring a proper camera, and take a ride along its beautiful river city just as I did in Venice in Asia, Venice of the North and real Venice.
As you can see, I only use composition to bring this image alive. Colour are suck, as there is no way for me to enhance its colour. The sky is actually nice, cloudy but the sun is still shinning creating golden and red colour blend which my HCP camera just could not capture. Everything turns white on it, no matter how I change the exposure. By the way, Kapuas river is the home of Golden Red Arowanas and Super Red Arowanas. 24th January 2010, HP Pavilion dv2 versus Windows 7 64 bit: sometimes HP dv2 laptop running Windows 7 freezes when resuming from sleep. I guess that is a problem with the HP 3D Protectsmart, as installing a software outdate worked to solve this problem. Read here for more information. The HP Pavilion dv2-1123ax is even more better deal right now at US 699, or about 6.4 million Rupiah at today's rate. 2 years of my camera I bought my camera back in 2008, and now it made more than 20.000 pictures. On average I took 10.000 pictures annually. My camera started to age as paint and rubber started to wears away. However my camera actually cranks out better picture as it ages! Compare the this, this, this and this, this. And you will see that my camera outputs better picture as it ages. Well, actually it is not my camera that cranks better pictures, it is me. The more I used to the camera, the more fluent I'll change the camera's setting to set it to the suitable condition, and the same applies to you. I also have more experience in composing a picture, cropping a frame, optimising colour, white balance, and sharpness. This results in improved image quality. Although I'm doing my best to improve my image quality, my image always captured within 0.2-0.4 degrees clockwise rotation from perfect horizontal line. Is it just me or everyone else has mal-aligned hand and eye coordination? In the other hand, after I reviewed the picture I took in Eurotrip, I realised that my camera actually output excellent image, even in a harsh condition and I see no reason to change it. Well I might change camera in 2018, after 10 years and 100.000 shots. And even the year is 2018 and my camera clocked more than 100.000 shots, I'll probably still use the camera if my camera still working perfectly. On the other hand my battery is likely to die in 2012 or 2013. Well, it will still hold currents, however at much weaker power and becoming a real annoyance for me. I think that it might be impossible find any shop that sell the battery for my camera anymore. Now I wish I bought the Pentax system that uses the eternal rechargeable AA batteries. You can find it everywhere and anytime cheaply. Or probably I can just buy the battery grip for my camera so I can use AA battery too? That is a good possibility, so I can use my camera up to 2018! Final word: I might change my mind when Canon introduce a small sized interchangeable lens body - like the Olympus Pen - that compatible with my existing EF and EF-S lenses. Yesterday I had a peek on the Pen, which is slim, beautifully crafted and retro classic looking even my auntie taught the Pen was a camera from the 1960s. I like the way Pen appears, since thieves and pickpocket would not realised that the Pen is a state of the art and expensive digital camera. Therefore securing my position. A news According to a survey held by the UNESCO Indonesian education is now getting better and better and rank 65. It means our kids now have a better education compared to Malaysian (rank 69). Now I see no reason for Indonesian to study aboard to Malaysia as our education system is better. I'm unsure about our education compared to Italian education, however I believe that our education is better than their education (joking) 14th January 2010, I invite you to participate in our national body building and body contest. Held by our Spider Gym, a leading health club in Magelang, this event will surely be spectacular and glamour. Spider Gym Body Building and Body Contest 2010 13th January 2010,
Hand of Destruction just visited Europe and pulled the Pisa Tower. More Eurotrip pictures are coming! There just too many picture I took in Europe that uploading and organising them require so much time. I've finished organising people picture, and give them to the rightful owner to publish on facebook or friendster. I use self timer to capture the Hand of Destruction, I needed to since I use my left hand to hold the camera and right hand to grab the tower, therefore no hand to press the shutter. After that shot a girl asked me to be photographed and oh no reaction after I press the shutter. I forgot one thing: on all digital camera, self timer capture means all shot is self timer. This should be designed to use once only. If the camera keeps using self timer, that means I kept forgetting to change it back to normal multi exposure. That means, lost of a moment which equates to lost of a potentially great picture! 8th January 2010, Oops, some bug on my advertisement... Don't worry, I'm gonna fix it soon! Please do not open it yet. Investment news I forgot to sell my ASRI warrants. I remembered it only on the last day when the price plummet to 1 and no one is going to get it! Money lost like a dust... Lucky me that I don't get too many ASRI's... However, still... I lost some money and that is the first time I realise a loss in stock market. Hopefully no 2nd time! The good news is now I know how warrant behaves. Well, it was an expensive lesson, which costs about 3 month of high school school fees in Jakarta. For the whole stock market, I gained a whooping 300 percent return in 2009. Well, my money tripled from 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2009. As IHSG now reaches 2600+ points. I wish it could set a new record of 3000+ points and more! However I'm not going any more money to the stock market in the 1st half of 2010. I'm buying gold now and probably diamonds. I know that diamonds are one of the worst investment since there are plenty of diamonds near the Earth core, however I'm getting some anyway. I need an improvement for my EOS 400D In Europe, a guy with 7D looked down at my 400D. My camera had only 10 MP, compared to their 18 MP. The 7D also has a lot more features than my camera. Well, that is not that important. The only improvements I need for the 400D and all other small EOS cameras are:
Figure them out, otherwise, the camera is just perfect! And those has not been improved even on the newer 450D, 1000D and 500D. A simple firmware update which required few hours of programming is all that required to to improve this. Canon, please consider this firmware update! 5th January 2010, Adventure with an ultra wide angle lens continues in Europe Trip 2009 - 2010! I bought only 2 lenses with me in Europe, the Canon EF-S 10-22 mm ultra wide lens as my main lens and Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 normal lens for photographing the girls on their request. 99 percent of the picture on Eurotrip was taken using my Canon EF-S 10-22 mm, and unless stated otherwise the pictures were made using the ultrawide. My experience shows that I almost have no need for the EF 50 mm even for shooting the girls acting and doing girly things. Therefore always remember: one lens is enough, two lenses is good, three or more lenses are hassle. Advertisements And oh yes, the advertisement on my website now points to my company's website. Well, basically I advertise my products on my own website. Somewhat funny, but I guess that's better than advertising other's product. The bottom line is why do I let other advertise on my site while giving me a little profits while my company can earn me a lot more money not my clicks, but from its profit. |
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