Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1 Printing photos from your phone!

Translating your smartphone photos into something physical hasn't been the easiest thing to do but that might change with the Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1.



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Let me guess chances are you have been taking hundreds of photos but without printing any of them.Fujifilm wants to fix that this Instax Share. It's a compact printer. It communicates with your smartphone or tablet via wifi direct and then you use an app to customize your photos you can edit them rotate crop a little bit and then just print them out. If you take a photo within Fujifilm's app, then there's another feature called Real-Time and that's the template that post the time the date and the location of where the photo was taken onto the picture itself. It's gonna cost $200 when it comes out in April2014, but of course once you run out of photo paper you will need to replace that. Each additional pack of photopaper has 20 prints worth and I'm told that it'll cost somewhere between $15 and $20 for an extra pack of photopaper. I gotta say I quite like this gadget. It's gonna be a cool way of getting photos off that hard drive and into the real world. ( http://reviews.cnet.com/printers/fujifilm-instax-share-sp/4505-3155_7-35833810.html )

Translating your smart phone photos into something physical hasn't been the easiest thing to do -- but that might change with the Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1. With the SP-1, you can send photos taken on your IOS or Android device to be printed on Fujifilm's Instax Mini film format.

The whole process involves a few steps: Choose a photo, or take one from the Instax Share app, adjust it within the rectangular frame, connect to the printer via Wi-Fi, and print.
You can choose from sepia or black and white filters within the app to modify your photo, and templates allow you to add text to the photos.

There's also an option to trawl through your Facebook and Instagram picture history, which allowed me to access really old photos from an old phone. However, the process of connecting to a social media account, then reconnecting back to SP-1 for each photo, was quite painstaking.
Still the trip down memory lane was worth it, even if old photos taken on the iPhone 3GS turned out to be a little too low-resolution when printed.

There's another nice touch --- you can opt to print the photos in a square format a la Instagram, while adding details such as the number of likes on the photos into the template.
Overall, I found using the SP-1 fun, if a little troublesome. It would have been nice to be able to snap photos and print them without so many steps, but there's still the nostalgic charm of watching my photos slowly appearing on the photocard, just like on a Polaroid.

At 253g (without battery and film pack), the SP-1 weighs around as much as the usual film-based Instax cameras, and is almost as bulky -- so the real benefit is the ability to shoot first, then crop or edit the photo to your tastes.

Still, the SP-1 fills the niche people have been waiting a long time for: Instant photos direct from your phone. Other firms, like LG might have similar solutions, but the SP-1 has the edge here, thanks to how popular its camera brethren is. ------Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1 Available now at all major retail outlets for SGD$259

The Real Cost if you pay using credit card (Calculator)

Compound Interest - It can save you money or cost you.


When is something that's good for you also bad for you?
Well, that's what can happen with compound interest. It's good when you are saving, but when you use your credit card, it may be like paying for something twice.
Compound interest is good when the bank pays you. Most savings accounts pay compound interest so when you earn interest each month, it's added to your total. The following month you earn interest on the new, higher total.




For example, if you put $1,000 into a long-term savings plan that pays you three percent interest per month, you will have about $1,820 at the end of 20 years even if you don't save another dollar. But when you look at credit cards, compound interest can cost you dearly. Let's say you bought a new computer for $1,000 with your credit card. You can afford to pay only the minimum payment of $30 each month, but the interest rate on your credit card is 20percent a month. It will take you more than four years to pay for the computer, which ends up costing you $1,472. Not such a great deal after all!

So look for high rates of interest when you are saving money. Certificates of deposit that require you to keep your money in the bank over a certain period of time often pay higher interest. The key is to make sure it's compound interest.


But avoid building up compound interest on your credit cards or loans. If you don't pay off your full credit card balance regularly, think about cutting up your card until you can pay it off in full. When it comes to credit cards, compound interest can mean that you are paying a lot of extra money for whatever you buy.

To help you figure out how much something is really costing you on your credit card, try this useful calculator: http://www.calculatorweb.com/calculators/creditcardcalc.shtml

Super Heroes | TEDxYouth

"It’s not about where you were born. Or what powers you have. Or what you wear on your chest. It’s about what you do… it’s about action." -Superman, Infinite Crsis

Independently Organized TEDxYouth@Alexandria event will be presenting a lot of different ‘ideas worth spreading’. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. This year, the event will present the youth are mostly full of energy, ambition, enthusiasm, faith in achieving their goals, there are a lot of impossible missions they can accomplish on the very beginning of their life-changing journey. 

If our speakers could turn their dreams into reality, and put their ideas into action, YOU can do it as well.  the theme will be  “Super Heroes” . 

from this theme i start my challenge to translate all this words to graphics describes ideas the way I take Followed animation movies like a child  so much that I found the film by matthew winkler illustration Wing Luo design and concept art kirill Yeretsky,wing Luo,robertino Zambrano
to take inspiration from it in a way set in my mind to the simplicity tried to develop it  and use the simplicty way of charachter and shadow like  icon and turn it to graphics for TEDx 2013 and try to follow the story and big headlines story to be superhero what's you need !

Hulk Smash

The Incredible Hulk can be aggressive and a symbol of Uncontrollable Rage and Anger however turning them Chibi can turn them into cutie Incredible Hulks.




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Hulk Smashing Time.....ain't they cute ?

If Super Heroes have Part Time Jobs

If super heroes had part-time jobs, what would they do? They might each go into something they are uniquely suited for.

Malaysian illustrator Chow Hon Lam took that idea and ran with it in his series of illustrations called Part Time Job.

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Mortal Kombat Legacy II is Online!

The wait is finally over. After almost a year of hype, season 2 of Mortal Kombat Legacy has hit the internet.

The story laid out in season one of Mortal Kombat Legacy continues as we follow some old and new characters into the Tournament. Following the current trend of other web-exclusive series out there, Machinima has released all 10 episodes of season two on their Youtube channel for viewing. You can check it out in the link below.


Episode one of Mortal Kombat Legacy 2 will hit the internet on September 26, 2013 on Machinima’s Youtube channel with WB Digital Distribution behind the release. Season two stars Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who is reprising his role as Shang Tsung from the movie, Ian Anthony Dale as Scorpion, Mark Dacascos as Kung Lao, Eric Jacobus as Kurtis Stryker, Casper Van Dien as Johnny Cage, Brian Tee as Lui Kang, Michelle Lee as Mileena, and Harry Shum, Jr. as Kuai Liang.

Map of Singapore

Here's the Map of Singapore
 Divide and Conquer
What are the areas that would be good land location with good fengshui chi flow.









So would it be the East side or Central that is likeable?

AKB48 Janken Tournament

I just came back from Narita-LAX. I happen to see a poster which caught my eye, the "Janken Taikai (Janken Tournament) promotion."



I think today’s concert is just one part in a series of events that couples the music of AKB with some inter-group Janken competition. Some of the most popular members go head to head in games of Janken. Looking at the web promos, there were tears and emotions tied to games of rock, scissors, paper. I guess it must be to get the fans into it or something. But what I saw of it was pretty entertaining. *Janken is the Japanese version of rock scissors paper




Janken, The Ultimate Rock, Paper, Scissors Game.
The world would be a better place, if we just used janken to decide on things. If two warring nations were fighting over a coveted piece of land, instead of fighting it out with guns and missiles on the battlefield, a simple game of janken could determine who gets the land. Or if two men are fighting over a woman, they could just use janken; the winner gets the girl, the loser backs off. Ahh, if only things could be that simple in reality. Oddly enough, though, here at the elementary school, it often IS that simple. Janken is like the ultimate decision-making tool. As I’ve mentioned before, during lunch time, there is always a little extra food, an extra carton of milk…something that’s left over. Instead of fighting over who should get seconds, it’s decided by rounds of janken: the winner gets second helpings. There are never any arguments after the game is done. The students who don’t win just accept it.
Rock, Scissors, Paper is a game that I see every single day. You might think I’m exaggerating, but I’m completely serious. Because janken is such a big deal here!
So shout out "Janken Pon"! and go battle and win! (http://www.thejapanguy.com/how-to-play-janken-video/)




AKB48 Team K Miyazawa Sae dressed as a white prince.


AKB48 Team A Takahashi Minami (right) yankees it up, and easily wins her first round. 


AKB48 Team A Kojima Haruna (left) was going strong in another lucky colour dress.


After tying with rock twice, AKB48 Team A Matsubara Natsumi (left) gets into senbatsu with scissors after 4 years of not being part of senbatsu. The last single where she was in senbatsu was for "Sakura no Hanabiratachi 2008". AKB48 Team K Fujie Reina (right) placed 2nd in the Janken tournament last year. This tournament is really the only ways that girls, who are never picked for senbatsu, get a chance to be part of it.

Best 8

AKB48 Team K Uchida Mayumi (left) gets into Best 8 with another rock, beating AKB48 Team K Itano Tomomi (right).


SKE48 Team E Kimoto Kanon (left) loses to AKB48 Team 4 Takeuchi Miyu (right) for a place in Best 8.


AKB48 Team K Nito Moeno (left) beats fellow team member Umeda Ayaka (right) to get into Best 8.


AKB48 Team A Shinoda Mariko (left), last year's Janken Queen, beats fellow team member Maeda Ami (right).


AKB48 Team K Yokoyama Yui (left) beats AKB48 Team A Nakata Chisato (right).


SKE48 Team E Ueno Kasumi (left) loses against AKB48 Team 4 Abe Maria (right). 

So what does a simple game of Scissors-Paper-Stone have to do with a whole tournament in Japan’s Budokan stadium with flashy lights and a whole production setup that can rival any concert setting?

Well for the uninitiated, this seemingly simple game will be used to determine who will be in AKB48′s 24th single lineup. And that is not all, the overall winner of the whole tournament will also get to be in the center of the 24th Single as well!

With stakes this high, it is no wonder that AKB48 fans all over have a keen interest in this tournament. And just for local fans here in Singapore, the whole tournament was live streamed in a cinema and thanks to AKB48 Singapore, POPCulture Online was there to experience it as well.

In a knockout format, many of the AKB48 members including some from SKE48 and NMB48 took turns to go up against each other. And after 2 intense rounds, we have the top 16 members eho will be featured in the 24th single:

AKB48 – Shinoda Mariko
AKB48 – Fujie Reina
AKB48 – Kobayashi Marina (Research Student)
AKB48 – Minegishi Minami
AKB48 – Akimoto Sayaka
AKB48 – Sato Sumire
AKB48 – Oya Shizuka
AKB48 – Maeda Ami
NMB48 – Hikawa Ayame
AKB48 – Umeda Ayaka
AKB48 – Kasai Tomomi
SKE48 – Kuwabara Mizuki
AKB48 – Kojima Haruna
NMB48 – Yamaguchi Yuuki
AKB48 – Yamauchi Suzuran
AKB48 – Kitahara Rie

Well, it is always an interesting experience to watch a live tournament, be it the world cup or Olympics where you can never predict the results as anything can happen next. And this Janken tournament is no different as Scissors-Paper-Stone can really be random at times. You can really feel the atmosphere in the cinema with fans who were all rooting for their favorite idols, were shouting away in support and especially right before both competitors reveal their choice with the shouts of “Jan Ken Pon”.

Another unexpected surprise was that once we were backstage, we also saw members SKE48 and NMB48 (the lesser known, but still kinda popular, girl, J-Pop super groups) who made guest appearances during the show. You know what else was intersting/semi-creepy though? So many of the fans that were waiting way in advance, standing in line for six hours or more to get a glimpse of these tender, young girls…were men! I’m not talking teenage boys either, I men grown-ass twenty somethings and thirty somethings! We were literally scanning the long line for kids and girls, and literally couldn’t find a single one. Once the concert actually started the crowd balanced out quite a bit more, but I just found that so interestingly strange.

Despite me not being the biggest fan of these groups, I have to admit…they were all pretty friendly (especially AKB48), they didn’t know any of us, but several of them tried speaking to us in English during their rehearsal down time. We watched them do dancing warmups, and watched the chosen members go through their Janken practice games. It was cool to see the work that went into the show behind the scenes: from pyrotechnics, to costumes, to camera work. It was a show complete with all the trimmings.

I don't listen much to AKB48’s music, but after seeing them practice, meeting some of them (they’re really little by the way), and just seeing how the crowd responded to them, I definitely respect them more.



"Uza" seems like a very badass song, which is completely different from the previous single's "Gingham Check"

【MV】UZA -Dance ver.- / AKB48[公式] -- http://youtu.be/WIdWXhV33vs
AKB48 新曲 28thシングル 「UZA」 -- http://youtu.be/KzXNT3OPpaw

【MV】ギンガムチェック / AKB48[公式]  -- http://youtu.be/XHdcW2axwMk

Official Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AKB48?feature=watch


 AKB48 member Tomomi Itano is my favourite AKB48 member. ( http://www.youtube.com/v/fTVuAd_F7O8 )




The popular social game on Gree, named “AKB48 Stage Fighter”
The commercial will be delivered in two verions, one with Oshima Yuko as a main role, and the other with featuring all 8 members who won top 8 positions in the competition. This commercial also featured AKB’s new song “君のために僕は… (Kimi no tame ni boku ha – For you, I… )”.

http://www.akb48wrapup.com/

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