Solitaire

I was messing around with my iPad last night, downloading apps and organizing folders, when I came across Solitaire. I've always thought that Solitaire was for old grandmas and grandpas, but I thought it'd make a good addition to my “Classic Games” folder, along with Chess, Checkers, and Tic-Tac-Toe. I opened the game and the view popped up just as I'd always remembered:

Then, I started playing. As usual, I got stumped after about two minutes. I noticed a little hint button at the bottom right of the screen, so I clicked it. And to my surprise, it told me to drag a 2 above an Ace… Woah! Was I allowed to do that?! And suddenly, I learned a new rule in Solitaire, that as I was organizing the bottom cards in descending order, I was also supposed to be stacking up the upper cards by suit in ascending order! And then, I couldn't stop playing (and finally, winning! :-P)

Disconnected?

Here’s something weird: Every time the electricity cuts and the internet disconnects, and then reconnects again, there are some sites that just don’t open anymore (until a couple hours later). Google, Facebook, Twitter, and MSN messenger… Why?! :-S

Window on the World

I remember the first time I heard about digital photo frames. I was flipping through a now shutdown magazine called “Business 2.0”. One of my Marketing professors had advised it back in 2006 and the 19-year-old me thought that it would be a good upgrade from “Cosmo Girl” :-P.

I got “The Next Disruptors” October ‘06 issue. And as I was flipping through the “What’s Cool” Section, I came across a snippet entitled “Window on the World”. It featured a Philips Digital Photo Display for $200 at the time and I remember thinking that it was the neatest thing!

A couple of weeks ago, Finance was in my favor and I decided to spend rather than save January’s income. There are two goodies I’ve been wanting to get a hold of for quite a while now, and they’re #1- A DSLR Camera (read next post) and #2- A Digital Photo Frame.

I’ve been a SONY fan since forever. Our TV, laptops, cameras, SONY! And so I decided to get that brand for a frame. Today, I got the DPF-E72N digital photo frame with a 7-inch wide LCD panel that comes with a range of view modes, and even includes three interchangeable bezels (black, brown, and red). It’s brilliant!

I spent about an hour going through thousands of pictures I have saved on my external hard drive and copied my favorite pictures of family and friends into a folder that fits 2GB worth of pictures. I then transferred them to my memory card which I subsequently inserted into a slot on the back of the frame and bada bing, I now have a work of art with all of my favorite people in it! :-)