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Photobook Review
11.24.06 | Permalink |Photobook, Shopping, Technology| 15 Comments

I believed you have heard of Pixart and many bloggers have reviewed it. Now there is another competition that has emerged in the Malaysia market called Photobook. For some of you who may not know what I am talking about, let me enlightened you. It is an online service whereby you can purchase a personalised book with photos, just like an album. How do you start?

First you have to download their software PhotoStudio and install it on your PC. With the software, you can select and pick your photos and start building the photobook. At the end of it, preview and when you are satisfied, you can proceed to order the book. The software will load the book to the shop’s server. Lastly you have to key in details of your delivery address and make payment. Wait for 5-7 working days, it will be delivered to you.

What I like about PhotoStudio
Freestyle, you can practically create any layout, theme, background of your choice and add text anywhere on the layout.
Your directory folder tree is on the right side for easy selection of pictures with thumbnails view of all the pictures on the selected folder. There is no need to pre-select the pictures.
At the right column it has an indication of quality of the pictures in the folders. Good, Medium, Bad or Used (meaning the picture has been selected).
At the lower window, it has a small thumbnail preview of all the pages.
You can resize or move the pictures anywhere on the page. It has a grid to guide.
At the end, it gives you a warning if you forgot to fill any of the pages, the photo resolution is poor and the size of the picture is bigger than the frame.
For those poor resolution pictures, it doesn’t allow you to insert. The printing will not come out good.
It has all the fonts from your PC.
You can insert as many pictures on the page as possibly fit.

Room for improvement:

It will be good if there were a few pre-defined layouts themes for non-expert users.
Provide a scaling function to focus on selected parts of the pictures.
Provide hard cover as a selection.
Provide a box for the photobook when shipping because it can easily bend when it is not handle properly. I saw a slight dent on some of my pages. 🙁

The Photobook

It looks excellent. Picture quality is very good, similar to a developed photograph. I am impressed by it. It has a soft cover and as light as a book, you can carry it around. A great Christmas gift.

I did this photobook as a gift for my parents as they don’t see my children as much. With this photobook, they can admire them day and night. Take a look for yourself and start to make 1. Let me know if you want discount, I can TRY to get for you.

For more details, please go to their website http://photobook.com.my

I bet you have seen lots of videos on the Mentos and Diet Coke explosions. However I have to give it to these creative guys who made a dancing fountain of Diet Coke. I saw this video from docfiles blog from YouTube. It is just so cool. 😎 :clap: Those guys EFNTD. :shifty:

11.21.06 | Permalink |Craft, Hobby| 11 Comments

This used to be one of my hobbies during my free time. However I have been neglecting it ever since I have 2 hands full. I love making beads stuff. Oh you can also make personal cards with these beads ornaments on top.

New discovery I made today. A few days ago, I made a photocopy of myKad. Today I looked at the photocopy and saw the word SALINAN (aka copy). Opps, I thought myKad had the word there, it will be fake if it does. I took a look at it and it didn’t…Phew. You figure it out, how it gets there. Try yours and see.

Let me introduce you to Sticker Books that I got from Times Bookstore in Changi Airport. It is great for children at the age of 2 and above. Basically it teaches children to find the right shape and paste the sticker there plus lots of information about a certain topic. It also have free pasting. The book comes with over 200 reusable stickers. What I like about this book is that the pages are glossy, stickers can be reused. You can pull out the sticker again and stick on a different page, while the glue lasts.

The one I got for Tim have more information on military technology. It has information on fire trucks, police operations, military air planes and rescue team info. Great for learning! The book costs SGD12.90

Another book that I got, this one is from MPH with discount of 30% for members, it is called paper doll books. The books come with 6 paper dolls and many type of paper clothing plus accessories. You can dress the dolls with each different style like wedding style, princess style, dancing clothes, ballerina etc etc.. It will be more fun for the gals.

I remembered when I was young, I used to draw the dolls and clothes for the dolls to play. Now it comes in a book. However with the book, it can never stop you from designing more clothes for the paper dolls. The book cost RM16.90.

P/S The photo shots are not very good because it is taken from a camera phone. Hubby is busy now a days and I accidentally broke his lens. Thank God, he got that fix for free. :doh:

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