7 days till August 7th!
Written by Shamini on August 1, 2010 – 12:28 AMAnd on August 7th I’ll turn 31 years old. Imagine that. I’m still thrilled to become one year older, and I always look forward to my birthday. I honestly don’t understand all the fuzz about the “30 year crisis” and all that. God knows I still feel like I’m in my early twenties, and age is just a number.
Yesterday I got my first (and probably only) birthday present this year! A little too early, but I still have to wait a few weeks until I can actually play with it. Øyvind had ordered the new iPhone for me, so yesterday I got a mysterious e-mail confirming the order of a black 32GB iPhone 4! Personally I’m a kind of person who like to make up my own mind about things – I never like products or items just because it’s something popular – so I haven’t really been awed by my iPhone 3GS even though I can’t imagine being without several of the available apps I have installed. With that said I’m absolutely and immensely pleased with his choice of birthday gift – and I hope I don’t have to wait too long for it to arrive!
Just a few days ago I discovered the app iBooks, and that app alone is reason enough to own an iPhone in my opinion. Now I’ve got a wooden bookshelf on my phone, and it’s all ready to be filled with wonderful books. I’ve already got “Winnie the Pooh” and “Dracula” in there, and I’ll be adding a few more classics shortly. Genius!
For a few years now I’ve been wanting my next mobile to be a BlackBerry. I don’t know why, I have just fallen in love with its look and the full miniature keyboard. Unfortunately it’s hellish expensive, and is considered to be a business phone. When I moved to Trondheim I bought myself one of those mini PC’s with the intention of having a smaller device to blog, surf the Internet and take notes when in school on and while away from home. I didn’t like it, and thought maybe a BlackBerry would fill my needs instead. The iPhone has a nice touch keyboard, but I really don’t like it when I’m typing larger portions of text – I always hit wrong keys, or even several ones. So yesterday I found the perfect little addition to my new iPhone 4 adventure: a tiny wireless bluetooth keyboard – and naturally I went straight ahead and ordered it. The price? $36 (about 220,- NOK with today’s exchange rate) plus $3 (19,- NOK) for shipping to Norway. 

An update will naturally be added as soon as I get my shiny new gadgets, and I’ll add a tiny “review” of the wireless bluetooth keyboard as well. It might just be crap, but I think it’s worth a try!
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Tags: Apple Inc., Birthday, iPhone 4, Nerd
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The day when my Nokia 6500 Slide decided to die on me finally arrived. It didn’t die completely, it just started rebooting in the middle of a phone call. It had also suddenly decided to refrain from showing me who was calling or texting, something I found very annoying since I haven’t taken the time to memorize every contact I have stored on my phone. I’ve been lemming a Blackberry Curve for some time now, but since you’ll have to pay with your soul or at least something of a similar value, I managed to agree with myself on the new iPhone 3GS instead. I ought be used to a heavy phone, since I once had the brilliant idea of buying a Nokia made of stainless steel, but I still think that the iPhone is a little on the heavy side. I guess I’ll get used to it though. 
Hva hadde vel livet vært uten gadgets? Jeg har lenge hatt en svak interesse for fotografering, og for noen år siden kjøpte jeg meg et Panasonic Lumix FZ5-digital kamera. Det er et flott kamera til mitt bruk, og da jeg kjøpte det valgte jeg nettopp det kameraet fordi det var “kjapt på avtrekkeren”. På den tiden tok jeg nemlig haugevis med bilder av chinchillaene mine, og jeg var drittlei av å kun sitte igjen med bilder av haler! Om du ikke vet hva en chinchilla er, så er dette en utrolig herlig gnager med bøttevis av personlighet, ..og lopper i bakbeina. Ja, ikke faktisk utøy da, men det er så og si umulig å få en chinchilla til å sitte rolig, med mindre du har vært heldig å fått deg en av den sjeldne, rolige sorten. Jeg har vært oppdretter av disse fantastiske dyrene i 8 år, men la hobbyen på hylla når jeg flytta til Trondheim – mye fordi det er umulig å finne leilighet som både er tilrettelagt og hvor det er tillatt med dyrehold. Uansett, jeg er fortsatt kjempefornøyd med kameraet mitt – og jeg er sikker på at jeg hadde blitt enda mer fornøyd om jeg bare hadde giddet å lese bruksanvisningen for å kunne bruke alle innstillingene korrekt – men jeg syns det er ganske stort, og det blir liksom et tiltak å ta det med seg, med mindre vi skal noe spesielt. Derfor hadde jeg lyst på et lite, lett og kompakt kamera, og begynte å snakke med Øyvind om dette. Han kunne også tenke seg et kamera som man alltid har tilgjengelig i vesken eller i en lomme, og vi ble enige om å skaffe oss et sånt et. Etter å ha surfa litt rundt på nett, og kikket på alternativer og tester, fant vi ut at vi skulle gå for Canon Digital Ixus 80 IS – og sånn ble det. Øyvind har satt seg inn i alle funksjonene ved det, og forsøkt å lære meg endel av det også, og så langt er vi begge kjempefornøyde med kameraet! Litt av tanken min bak var å ha muligheten til å ta snapshots når vi er ute og finner på ting, som kan pryde innleggene mine.
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