Useful Stuff About Traveling

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The Apple MacBook Air brings the power and performance you need anywhere you need it.

Features

Storage

Instead of the usual heavy power hungry hard drive, the MacBook Air comes with a flash SSD, or solid state drive. This makes reading from the drive lightning fast, the OS will boot up instantaneously without annoying wait times. Since SSD drives are so small and lightweight, the MacBook is extremely thin and lightweight.

Graphics

The NVidia GeForce 320m graphics card comes standard with the MacBook Air, bringing you the best gaming experience possible, along with unparalleled video editing capability no matter where you are. With the included iMovie and iPhoto, you can make your media faster than ever.

Full size keyboard

The keyboard uses the Chiclet design (like the gum candy, nice beveled squares for ergonomics). If you’ve ever used one of these keyboards, you probably know that they don’t last very long, so I recommend sending this in to Fimark for laser marking, increasing the durability of your MacBook.

Processing Power

The Intel Core 2 Duo is optimized for the best multitasking capabilities you can get on a Mac; play a game, edit a video, and watch a movie all at once if you want, this laptop can handle it all. 1.4GHz processor with 800MHz bus and a seizable L2 cache, so you can copy and paste large files into memory without bogging down your machine.

Intuitive Glass Multi-Touch Track pad

This track pad gives you the same capability of an iPhone or iPod Touch’s touch screen, giving you the ability to pinch, rotate, swipe, three finger and four finger tap, and dragging capabilities.

Face Time Webcam

Unlike any other kind of webcam, this is embedded into the thin frame; you can even make calls to other iPod and iPhone users with webcams with only a Wi-Fi connection.

Extended Battery Time

The MacBook Air promises up to five hours of wireless productivity and an additional 30 days of standby time, so you don’t have to worry about your computer dying while it’s in sleep or hibernation mode.

This really is useful stuff. Last weekend I went to a computer store and I took a look at the laptops available. My laptop has more than three years and never gave me one single problem but I know it won’t last forever so I want to be updated with new releases in case I need to buy one.

One of the features that are offered when buying a laptop is an extended laptop warranty. This warranty is optional and there is an extra amount that we have to pay when buying the laptop in order to take advantage of the warranty extension.

Having this computer for so long without problems makes me wonder if it is worth the money we have to pay for the extended laptop warranty. However, it’s always an option to be taken into consideration.

Save money and time. How?

Do you have an online connection? Yes? Than you have the world at your hands. You can access from your own computer without leaving your house most of the necessary products and services.

Social Security online, insurance online, banking online, most stores are online, so… you save money and time. No driving, no rushing from work to take care of things, no more dragging the kids with you when you have bank issues to take care.

The world is there, in your hands.

So you see .AVI, .WMV, .FLV file’s extensions and do you really know what they mean? Here is a description of the most common extensions:

.AVI – Audio/Video Interleave: This is the most common type of file for PC and can include almost all audio and video formats. The most common are DiVX and Xvid for video and MP3 and WAV for audio.

.MKV – Matroska (Matroska Video) -  This type of open code file is being used very often mainly because, on the contrary of others, this file format supports multiple channels of audio and subtitles in only one file

.MPEG2 – Moving Picture Experts Group 2 – This is one of the most used type of files. It is the codification used in every DVD disks and also by station that broadcast with digital signal.

.TS – Transport Stream – This type of file is part of the standard MPEG2 and is used in TV station broadcasts.

.DIVX – This format was created by DiVX Inc., the company that created the original DiVX format also known as MP4 or MPEG 4. This was the first format to offer a good relation between compression and image quality.

.MOV – Standard video file from Macintosh, that can be read by Quicktime from Apple.

.WMV – Windows Media Video – This format was created by Microsoft to replace the .AVI that offers more capabilities, for instance compression capabilities as well as high definition signal us.

.H264 – This is the format adopted for the broadcast of high definition signal and also for Blu-ray. It preserves the image quality and at the same time a very good compression rate.

.VOB – Video Object – These files are present in every DVD Video disks. Inside them there are the Mpeg2 video, the audio and subtitles.

.FLV – Flash Video – Coded files to be used in web pages that use Adobe Flash technology. The most famous application of this files is You Tube and all the other sites that offer video in the Internet.

I’ll post about the audio file extensions soon.