Vintage polaroid cameras
Well not much is going to change with our paper this week. We've been stricken with a bout of lethargy over here, although we did put up a couple of videos on our website last week.
Those and all future videos we put will go under the multimedia heading on our front page. There you will be able to see various movies and slideshows such as our slideshow on Dia de la Raza, or our production video camera, which we will be filming for again this week.
These elements show how we are improving with our ability to get news out faster. The past two weeks we have mainly been putting things up for our online things, and those things are more time consuming. Also we have had the print edition of our paper planned out for the past week or so, which obviously makes some of the harder things a little bit easier.
This week these side projects have left us no time to work on improving different elements of our paper. We should be changing some more fonts in our paper, but due to the other things that my colleagues and I have been working on we haven't gotten to them.
These articles would have been finished by now though, if not for our other problem: motivation in our newsroom.
My specific problem is this; it's hard to keep people motivated for something that they are going to be doing eight times over the space of a school semester. I find it hard to motivate myself most of the time.
Part of the problem is the unrestricted access we have to computers. The internet is quite a double edged sword
The AT&T Navigator app wasn't as polished or feature-rich as similar offerings on Verizon Wireless, and it should take better advantage of the touch screen. When we dragged the map, instead of seeing the map pan under our finger, we found ourselves dragging a blank wire frame that needed to refresh to show us more information. Also, we miss the traffic updates and route suggestions we've seen on VZ Navigator.
Camera - Good
Samsung has made some nice improvements to the standard camera interface on Windows Mobile, adding plenty of easy-to-use touchable buttons to the screen. The settings menu gets the most improvements, and it's now much more touch-friendly. The 2-megapixel camera on the Samsung Epix was mediocre, but no worse than an average cameraphone. We saw loads of purple fringing around objects, and noise caused serious pollution in fine details.
Decorated pole
Things get off to a fine start, as the camera keeps up with all the colors, though the reds are definitely oversaturated. Purple fringing also starts to show up where objects intersect with the sky on the right side of the frame
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