Good Harvest from IT Show

November 29, 2008

My sister and I checked out SITEX 2008 over at the Singapore Expo. Not as impressive as other IT shows I went to but I’m glad the major exhibitors were on just one floor unlike those held at Suntec.

Early signs of the sea of humanity…

I’m an impulse shopper but I’m glad to have been able to limit my purchases in this visit. I really didn’t have anything in mind prior to coming.

I got “OmniPage 16″ which is a software that turns paper into text documents and even turns text into audio podcasts. This is a good addition to the software that came with the Canon Lide90 scanner I bought a few months ago. I think I’m steadily moving into a better position in getting rid of extra paper at my place.

I also found the CD protector plastic intriguing so I got a few sets. This is like a jacket that exactly fits the CD and prevents it from having scratches. It can be used without affecting CD performance in the machine.

And just as I thought my debit card’s job is done for the day, I saw the Panasonic Lumix TZ15. This has now replaced my current Panasonic Lumix TZ2.

Head on comparison

(TZ15 vs TZ2)

9.1 MP vs 6.0 MP

3.0 LCD screen vs 2.5 LCD screen

New features: Face Detection, Digital Red Eye Correction, Intelligent Auto feature (digicam selects the scene/mode; this is even better than a relatively similar feature in TZ2), HD video instead of the low quality video of TZ2 which was really disappointing (for TZ15, you can also zoom in and out while recording video).

The digicam came with several freebies.

These three shots are within the first 100 shots taken from my new digicam (would recommend that you consider getting this type of cam when you scout for one next time).