Like many other verticals there are many technological innovations happening in photography too. This "smartphone attachable lens-style camera" is one of these recent innovations. I can't comment on quality of the lens itself but they must be far better than that of a standard camera installed on mobile phones. These lenses can be used both attached/detached to the mobile phone. They use NFC (if your phone is into that sort of thing) or create their very own Wi-Fi signal to connect with the phone.
I first read about such lenses and other similar products on http://photojojo.com/store/ . They have such products for both android and iphone.
Now, is it worth it? Depends on your requirements. If you don't want to get into professional photography but still want to improve the quality of your photographs you can use one of these. However, remember that these don't replace DSLRs.
1. Mobile Camera : average quality/almost zero creative control/very good mobility
2. Mobile Camera + Lens accessory : better quality/almost no creative control/good mobility
3. Point & Shoot Camera : decent quality/little creative control/good mobility
4. Hybrid/Zoom Camera : decent quality/very high optical zoom/decent creative control/poor mobility
5. Mirrorlesss/Interchangeable Lens Camera : Good quality/Good Creative Control/average mobility
6. DSLRs : Good quality/Good Creative Control/Poor Mobility
I personally prefer to keep [1] in my pocket & [5] in my bag(along with lenses). I also have an old Zoom Camera that usually sits in my home. I occasionally use it together with a teleconverter lens to take photographs of sun, moon & objects/people that are far far away.
According to reviews, the lens cameras don't work well in large crowds (e.g. Sporting events, your kids' school play). Physically docking to your phone would be more sensible (there's a kickstarter project along those lines). But frankly the gap between cellphone cameras and the rest is closing to the point where 1-3 is a wash, and 4 is pretty crap anyway. So it's 1-4, 5/6. If Sony would produce some decent lens options for reasonable prices...
Thanks for these details. I'm interested because I usually don't carry a bag, and care about mobility and availability. I also like the idea of taking picture without disturbing too much the (human) environment, e.g. without shooting too explicitely. However this lens seem to be too big to fit in a pocket.
What about those in India who traded using localbitcoins.com? Is there any possibility that they too can get into legal trouble or affected in some other way?
I don't see anyone getting into trouble, as long as the money which you used to purchase bitcoins from them was not already stained.
Of course, people who bought using these sites might have the ED Scanner go over them, but again, nothing to worry unless you have undeclared assets or anything otherwise illegal.
Indians can still do a wire transfer to MTGox and purchase bitcoins.
I would not recommend mtgox, which is known about its delays with withdrawals, and has higher prices than other exchanges. Check out bitstamp, btc-e etc.
1. CSS Preprocessing Language : Any one of LESS or SASS.
2. Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation.
3. Concepts of UI/UX Design.
4. Let him do some projects and hone his skills. How about making his own website/portfolio or making some HTML templates/themes and try selling it on marketplaces like themeforest?
5. Once he becomes good at UI/UX Design & Development he can then focus on back-end. I would suggest him to go with Python & Flask. Learning Python language will not only help him in web application development but it will also allow him to explore & play other interesting stuff like Machine Learning, Computer Vision, etc.
I would like to suggest that you need to improve the quality of feedbacks you provide to theme developers when their submissions get rejected. Theme developers work hard to develop themes and they atleast deserve a proper feedback about what are the exact reasons their submission got rejected. This will help them make changes and improve the design if possible. I understand that to maintain the quality of themes in your marketplace you need to reject some themes but why not do it with a proper feedback? Is it that much time consuming?
At them moment they just get a standard reply that their item must be improved in one or more of the following areas:
- Visual quality and appeal
- Technical quality
- Originality
This is a terrible form of communication and a terrible user experience for theme developers who provide all the themes you sell at your marketplace. I wish you take some time out and do something about it.
I don't know how different are the work environment of ISRO and DRDO but I guess it must be same. One of my colleague at Tata Consultancy Services, an ABAP developer, left his job with decent salary and an opportunity to go to UK for an offshore project of 2 years. Why? To join DRDO at salary 4 times less than what he was getting coz he hated his work and was passionate about working on something that is not just interesting but also makes a difference.
I may be wrong but what I understood is that currently you have wordpress-like setup for theming your web application : Theme developers upload theme files(html/css/images) to publish it on production server. What you now need is the ability of average non-technical user to modify and save any standard theme online without the need to touch html/css code. Something similar to tumblr : http://oi39.tinypic.com/339lpfk.jpg
Right? I don't know about any SAAS that will let you do that and even if it does it will be difficult to integrate with your system. Why not develop it yourself or outsource it to some professional developer? All you need to do is-
- present copy of a default theme to customize
- let user change text using inline editing
- let user change/upload images
- let user select different colors/fonts using forms
Your understanding is correct, but the whole point was I don't want to build it or have it built if there's something existing I can plug into.
In any case, so far you're not wrong, I've found a few remote cms's now that I know what to look for that will hook into my system via FTPS, but they all seem to assume wrongly that it's a static site they're editing rather than small static chunks that get pulled into a dynamic site that can't be live previewed.
They all also seem to assume paths are from the root so editing images doesn't work. That's perhaps my fault and may require that I restructure how my skins work but I haven't decided yet.
Otherwise, there is uninterrupted power supply 24x7x365.