Mini

I think that the new mini laptops are the best thing for those who want to carry around a portable device ( I received my mini last week). Those who know me, know and understand that I love devices. I really love devices that will assist me with being a little more effective and efficient and not breaking my back down while I am out and about.

I am in love with the size and light weight of this little thing. It can actually fit into a few of my purses if I wanted it to. However, I have a sleeve for it and it fits right into one of my brief bags and totes.

It is so light and awesome for those who need some something lighter. I am looking forward to not carrying my heavier laptop since I have my new mini when I do not need a larger screen.

In the recent past and for many years I had a bad habit of carrying too many things

and heavy bags.

I have done much better the past two years. However, this mini takes the cake. It is so light that it is not even noticeable in your bag. It can really fit into a diaper bag!

I think this is an awesome device for the mobile mom who does not need to carry a heavy laptop on her back in addition to a child.

Yes, it is pink, a soft girly pink. I am in love with the size more the anything else, and the price was decent as well. The only thing about this mini is that it does not have a CD drive, but it is all good. Thats what the computers at home are for.

Yeah for....

Technology!

We were able to see the pictures and retrieve them with a card reader. This card reader pulled up all of the pictures that I had ever taken with this camera from the memory card, deleted and all. I think that it is awesome. It is a little thought provoking though. It goes to show that even when you think something is deleted, it really is not!

Thank you Gracies Mom and Deanna for informing me of the sites to download the programs! The only thing that I needed was a card reader and it worked! We loaded the card reader onto my laptop since we had his apple sitting until we recovered the photos.

I hope to have the pictures up on a slide show in a day or so. I prefer to load the pictures on to my husbands computer with a disc into his iPhoto for the slide show since it is easier do set up slide shows with the iPhoto.

Lessons Learned....

I wanted to share some pictures from our family vacation at Myrtle Beach the week of the 12th. I took about 375 pictures during our vacation with family. I should have made my slide show when I downloaded the pictures, and I would still have them. When we returned, I down loaded all of the pictures to my hubby's Mac on last Monday into Iphoto.
I did load about 5 pictures on my FB account and I will share those, since that is all I have.

On Thursday, my husband installed a program on his Mac that was given to him so that he could look at our neighborhood's security camera's and not have to use my PC to monitor the activity at the amenities in the neighborhood. Needless to say, when he installed the program there was some sort of glitch with running it and the program kept running. He made an appointment and took the computer to the Apple Store to have the techs look at it. Unfortunately all of our pictures from June and July that he had not backed up.

However, the pictures are somewhere on the computer and we will probably have to pay several hundred dollars for a recovery specialist to find the missing pictures and all of the data that we had. So, hopefully, one of hubby's co workers will be able to retrieve everything so that we will not have to lose the recent data put on the computer. If not, we are waiting on one of the locations that the Apple store recommended for a recovery specialists. The Apple store did not wipe it clean on yesterday so that we would have an opportunity to have a recovery specialist to recover the data to try to recover the recent information saved on the computer.

Let this be a lesson learned to all, to immediately back up all of your pictures instantly when you download them. I am praying and hoping that are our pictures will be recovered by the specialists. I was one of the main persons taking pictures of everyone at the beach and I captured so many beautiful shots of everyone during that week. We had so many family members present that it would be a shame to lose all of those pictures.
Besides that, mostly everyone was relying on me to email or send the pictures out on discs so that they could print their own pictures. This was truly a hurtful lesson to learn on my behalf. In addition, I was in the process of putting our family vacation into our profile for the adoption agency. It is really a shame.

New toy

Mommy has a new toy...

I wrote a post back in January titled " I need a Big girls camera" after trying to take pictures from across a banquet room and missing good shots at an event that I attended. I was beyond frustrated, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back!

I spoke to a few photographers (Jodi, thanks for all of your help too) and began my research in January after the event and my research continued through February and March. I made a decision around late February on Canon.

I decided to wait to purchase it during the summer months since we were still finalizing all of the adoption process costs during the winter. A new camera was not at the top of the list since we had just purchased a brand new camera last summer that I had not yet learned to use proficiently. However, I will still use my Sony Cybershot because it takes excellent pictures for a tiny camera with 10.1 mega pixels, opitical zoom 5x, smile shutter and wide angle lens 28mm. It is easy to put in my pocket or purse whenever we go out and it has really been wonderful having it with us to journal our adoption journey with pictures. However, it can not give me the flexibility of what I need for taking pictures from a distance.

My new toy arrived today and I am beyond thrilled! I am glad that I was patient because I was able to get what I wanted. Now, I will have to be patient with myself and learn how to really use this camera. This is one toy that will not collect dust!