With my Fiance’s birthday last week and our upcoming wedding and honeymoon, it was due time I bought her a digital camera to replace my ageing Fujifilm Finepix S5100, a 4 megapixel, 3 year old camera that was starting to look more like an antique than a digital camera.

The first stop for me when deciding to buy a camera (well in this case, a camera for my Fiance) is to look at the Camera stats on Flickr - here you can easily pick up which cameras are the most popular across brands and type (SLR, point & shoot, cameraphone etc). Not only can you see which cameras are the most popular, you can then browse photos that were taken with the camera.

So after all my Flickring, as well as chatting to my dad who was a professional photographer in his day, I had my eyes set on the Canon Powershot A590 IS. It has the following features:

• 8.0 Mega pixels
• 4X Optical zoom
• Optical Image Stabilizer
• Face Detection

These are the features on the box, simple and clear. However, some of the other features which I find very useful on the camera are:

• Built in Accelerometer - so when viewing a vertical picture, turn the camera and the image rotates.
• Focus check - after taking a photo, it can automatically show you a zoomed in version of the photo, thus determining if the photo was in focus or not.
• Speed of use - it takes less than 1 second from turning the camera on to the ability to press the shutter button - paparazzi styles!
• Video - the video quality is also very good as well as it has the ability to zoom while recording.

We haven’t taken lots of photos yet, but we will be snapping away at the wedding as well as on honeymoon, so add me as a contact on Flickr and check back soon!

Lastly, you can get this Canon Powershot A590 IS camera from SACamera for R1799. It was the cheapest price I could find online and at retail shops. Along with all the camera accessories they sell, they are also a authorised Apple retailer. In exchange for this review they offered to give me a camera bag and 2GB memory card. So a big thanks to SACamera!

K-day on the 15th of November can be summed up as one huge picnic with some great live music. I wasn’t overly blown away by the performances of the bands, but throw in a day of relaxation under the sun and you have a really good combination. However, there is a but…

The Umbrellas

You see, at a picnic people bring umbrellas. So when you decide to put up your umbrella, people behind you cant really see the stage.

So, put this together with some free flowing booze and add the sun and you have a cocktail just ready to get peoples’ blood boiling. Watch the video below of some of the confrontations I managed to record during K-Day!

Not able to watch this video? Catch it on Youtube.

I’m looking for a slightly more advanced video editor for Mac. After K-Day on Saturday, I have some decent footage of some people getting really hot under the collar because of umbrella’s not being taken down and with the booze flowing on a hot summers day, these confrontations are pretty funny!

So I want to edit the clips I have, add some text, pointing arrows, a couple of spotlight effects etc and iMovie on my Mac doesn’t seem to cut it. It’s great for basic editing, but for something I would think was simple - like adding an arrow pointing to someone, or positioning text, iMovie really looks lightweight.

I like the ease of use that iMovie offers, but need something with a little more flexibility.

Any suggestions?

Rudi from Gamer-gear.co.za stopped by the World Wide Creative studio yesterday to drop off a couple of really cool t-shirts and lanyards. I’m going to give this t-shirt away, so just drop me a comment below and I’ll send the t-shirt along to one random commenter! Comments close end of play on Friday. :)

Gamer Gear

For those of you that are into gaming, lans, clans and 1337 speak, Gamer Gear is perfect place for you to stop by and grab some funky gaming t-shirts, hoodies, lanyards and even nifty gaming tags!

Anyway, after I took the photo of me and the t-shirt, I thought I’d give the “fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds” maneuver a try - it rocks! Check it out below:

*Note: Technically, today is Wednesday, but I thought that since Rudi dropped off the t-shirts on a Tuesday, I would call it Tuesday t-shirt giveaways - so if you would like your company to be given some airtime here on my blog - send me schwag that I can give away!

I can’t believe the wonderful response I got from my first competition I’ve run on my blog. Not only did I have a diverse bunch of people enter, but I had numerous people offer to give Christopher J Combrink a ticket - as he wrote the following comment hoping I would give him the tickets directly.

I hate random, because my chances are really really really low. But there’s NO way that I can pass this up :(

Jason, what if I told you I’d write a FULL writeup on the event and link it back to your blog? Or hell, I’ll even author it for your blog? The word ‘desperate’ may be going through your mind… well, you’re right.

My girl broke up with me a week ago. She told me that she slept with a guy this weekend. Turns out that he’s also a mate. No, “ex-mate”.

My world is a bloody mess atm and well, I have done all the self-help reading I can. They all say the same thing - distraction. This concert would be the most epic distraction. I have mates going, but due to my girl moving out - I’ve had to pay double rent this month and am really $$ buggered.

To say that I’d appreciate the tickets (hell, ONE would do) would be the understatment of the year!! In fact, I only want one! If I win your comp. you can give the other ticket to another blogger :)

I really felt sorry for the guy and really wanted to give him the prize directly, but I thought I’d let the competition run its course and see…

Comment no. 7 goes to Chris Mills, who has decided to give his good buddy Chris Combrink one of the VIP tickets!

So to all those people that commented about giving Chris C a ticket - he got one fair and square!

Enjoy Rocking the Daisies Chris M & Chris C and please take some pics and blog about the event!