May 12, 2009

The Joerny to the Borneo

1. Zoo Pontianak


Zoo Pontianak located in Jalan Adisucipto, now has more than 50 animal collections, for example owl, albatross, pecuk snake, stork, ostrich, cuckoo and cockatoo. Besides there is also orangutan, various primate types, fox, porcupine, bear, crocodile and others.

The animals comes from contribution of public and confiscation to animal looked after by public without permit from government. Besides also there is contribution and deposit of animal from Sub Balai Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam ( KSDA) what obtained from its(the origin habitat.

Zoo Pontianak stood since the year 1976, initiative by Regional Leader Level Of I KalBar. This zoo build with reasoning of that at that moment marak is done [by] deforestation by the causing entrepreneurs annoyed it forest animal habitat. That the animals not extinct, done evacuation of the animal to place which more safe and as according to its(the original habitat.

This effort also pushed by activity an wood entrepreneur of Italian so called Pausto Oricciu looking after various wild animal types in its(the residency in Jalan Syuhada Pontianak. The animals is looked after [by] without permit. Therefore, Local government takes stages;steps to take over keeping of the animals and accomodates it in a location which its(the name Amusement Centre Rahadi Usman. This garden then is changed function to become Zoo Pontianak.

2. Keraton Kadariah

Empire palace of this Pontianak located in Kampung Dalam Bugis, Pontianak Timur. In building can be met monarchic ommissions like throne chair, clothes, mirror breaks a thousand, keris, desk giok, cannon etcetera. fairish Keraton Pontianak 30 x 50 metre, the biggest keraton in Kalimantan Barat. Wooden belian and built by town founder Pontianak, Sultan Syarif Abdurrahman at 1771, stripper building that is this luxury enough arranged in layers yellows paint symbolising empire highness of Melayu. Deals with building keraton there is mosque Jami built by at the same approximant.

3. Masjid Jami



First mosque built in this acurate located Pontianak town in river side Kapuas, deals with Keraton Kadariyah. Built by town founder Pontianak, Sultan Syarif Abdurrahman in the year 1771.

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May 10, 2009

BALI INDONESIA

A Serene Paradise At Santi Mandala Resort & Spa
by: Made Dertha

What drive people to choose villas for their holidays? Peace, serene, complete privacy and stay off the beaten track are the main reasons. Villas are situated in the countryside offer beautiful natural landscape around them as well. These tendencies involved the enchanting island of Bali in the late 90s.

The financial crisis in 1997 affected the whole of the Asia Pacific region – people didn’t want to spend money. But Bali had a mini building boom. This was largely thanks to a domestic market that saw the island as a safe haven – people started moving their businesses and families here, buying land and then building on it.

In this sense, the financial crisis played a part in kick-starting the villa movement. Bali’s built environment is changing. From concrete building condominiums-like owing planted tropical gardens to the serene, small resort villas style with its natural and friendly surroundings. It was in the late 90s that the concept really caught on, with a raft of boutique style properties springing up based on private accommodations with their own plunge pools and other amenities.

I worked as a tour guide for many years in Bali, and many guests asked me about places which offer serenity and complete privacy for a very restful vacation. I went around and checked out the island in order to gain a resort or villas which appeal to my guest’s desire. I found some nice resorts or villas are situated either in countryside or at coastal areas.

Many people seized the opportunity of the tourism booming in the 80s and 90s, and business of properties zoomed. Many hotels and villas were built, and one of the excellent hotel resorts is Santi Mandala Resort & Spa.

Santi Mandala Resort & Spa is situated on a secluded place at the bank of Panaraga Giri River makes it an evidence as a peaceful retreat in the natural environment of Batuan, just outskirt Ubud – Bali and just 45 minutes drive from Bali’s Int’l Airport. It’s built in the excellent blend of Balinese traditional architecture and international amenities standard, using most local materials as stones, soft fabrics, precious woods, bamboo and alang alang (the most popular grass for roof construction). There is a very good reason why grass is a favorite material for constructing roofs. It keeps out the tropical heat in a way that genteng (stone tiles) cannot. It also provides excellent protection from the tropical deluges that are common during the rainy season.

You will be amazed by the luxury bath room but in Balinese style and the marbles floor. Each luxurious villa (Garden Villas, Jacuzzi Villas and Private Pool Villas) offers complete privacy with private entrance and gardens and modern comforts as Air Conditioning, Refrigerator, Hot and Cold Water, IDD phone lines, Satellite Television, Personal VCD & CD Player, Radio & Music Cassettes, Personal Mini Bar, Room Service and Complimentary seasonal fruits is provided upon arrival along with daily afternoon tea service, either in the rooms or at poolside.

Guests can enjoyed also the services and facilities of the resort as Restaurant, Swimming Pool, Laundry & Dry Cleaning, 24 hours on call doctor, Shuttle Service to the center of Ubud, Money Changer, Rent Cars, Udaya Art Shop and Gallery, Library, Lila Mandala Open Stage, Saba Mandala Meeting Room and Dirga Saoca Spa. Resort Activities as Jogging & Tracking, Cycling, Yoga and Meditation, Wedding Organizer.

Since few years ago I brought hundreds of guests to Santi Mandala Resort & Spa and they leaved Bali with a very memorable holiday, because they enjoyed the excellent services performed by a strong team of friendly staffs.
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Digital SLR cameras on a shoestring

Lori Grunin Lori Grunin, Senior Editor April 1, 2009

Remember when it was common to drop $500 to $700 on a nice digital point-and-shoot? These days, with the same money, you can pick up a digital SLR camera. These aren't professional models or the very best that current technology has to offer, but for the photo enthusiast on a budget--or even the avid family photographer--they can be a big leap forward. With larger sensors and generally faster performance than snapshot models offer, these cameras provide plenty of tools to photographers who prefer a camera with more than one button. And if you save your pennies, you can increase their flexibility and image quality in the future with additional lens and accessory purchases. But which to buy from this year's models? Here's my take.

  • For the best overall value for the money, the Pentax K200D hits all the right notes with a dust- and weather-resistant body, sensor-shift image stabilization, and other premium features. It's biggest weakness is not-terribly-accurate colors and a tendency to underexpose, which can be overcome with some tweaking.
  • For the best photo quality, the Canon EOS Rebel XS delivers, especially in low light, and its kit lens is the best of the group. It does have some operational annoyances, though, such as hard-to-see AF points in the viewfinder and no spot meter, and it lacks in-body image stabilization.
  • Though it's not a clear winner in every race, the Nikon D60 seems to have the best overall performance of the group. However, its photo quality and feature set can't match most of the other models for the money.
  • For the cheapest model that fulfills the dSLR promise--better performance, photo quality, and flexibility than a point-and-shoot--the Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 seems to have garnered its share of fans.
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The Bottom Line Despite modest improvements in performance and a couple of new features, Nikon's D60 fails to impress and costs more than some competing models. The Canon EOS Rebel XS is a good entry-level dSLR, but only its photo quality stands out among the competition. The Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 is a solid entry-level dSLR that doesn't really stand out in its very competitive field. Pentax's K200D entry-level SLR gives a lot of bang for the buck and has better performance than last year's model. Despite low noise and pleasingly detailed images, technically inaccurate colors keep it from capturing the gold medal for image quality.
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Weight17.5 oz
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1.4 lbs
Effective sensor resolution10,200,000 pixels
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The bad: Early versions of the console prone to "red ring of death" system crash; noisy exhaust fan and DVD drive; gigantic oversize power supply; no built-in wireless networking or flash media reader; DVD playback has substandard video quality; support for next-gen HD DVD movies requires a bulky external accessory; 20GB hard drive fills up very quickly; online gaming requires a paid subscription to Xbox Live.

The bottom line: With its extensive digital media features, a superior online service, and an excellent game library, the Xbox 360 remains the game console to beat.

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IPOD NANO

Review: iPod nano

Apple's thinnest and, quite possibly, coolest iPod yet

iPods have been around long enough that many of us take them for granted. Yes, they’re small. Yes, they hold a lot of music. And yes, they’re cool. That’s pretty much the baseline for any iPod. It takes something special to break through our now-jaded iPod sensibilities. The iPod nano, with its tiny size, sleek look, colorful display, and responsive controls is that special something.

The nano is, in many ways, a hybrid of the iPod shuffle, the now-discontinued iPod mini, and today’s full-sized color iPods. Like the iPod shuffle, the nano uses flash memory (available in 2GB and 4GB configurations, priced at $199 and $249 respectively) rather than a hard drive. The higher-capacity nano holds the same 1,000 tracks as the original iPod mini. And like the mini, the nano dispenses with such higher-end capabilities as audio recording, downloading pictures from a camera attachment, and projecting slideshows to an attached television or projector.

Unlike with full-sized iPods, you can’t install Mac OS X on the nano and boot from it—the Mac OS Installer recognizes the nano but refuses to install to it. (The iPod mini shared this same limitation.) Yet, like a full-sized iPod, the nano includes a crisp color display and lets you view album art as well as pictures downloaded from a computer. And just to show that it’s not a complete “me too” iPod, it sports new Stopwatch, Screen Lock, and Clock features. It’s also the first iPod that includes an unplayed podcasts indicator (a small blue dot that appears next to podcasts you haven’t yet listened to) and a Lyrics screen where you can view any lyrics added to a track within iTunes’ song information window.

And, as you might expect, it sounds as good as any other iPod you’ve owned.

Thin is In

At 0.27 inches from back to front, the nano is about as deep as six stacked credit cards. Bearing dimensions of 3.5 by 1.6 inches, you can hide it beneath a business card (it will, in fact, fit neatly inside a business card wallet). Yet, even with its small size and scant weight of 1.5 ounces, the nano doesn’t feel flimsy or delicate. The stainless steel back and polymer front don’t flex. And while a person whose glove size runs to Large could play a convincing game of “Which hand?” with a nano, the iPod isn’t so small that it’s difficult to use its click wheel or view text or pictures on its 1.5 inch display.

The nano’s thin size has forced Apple to rearrange its ports. While the Hold switch remains on top of the player, the Headphone port is now on the bottom, next to the standard 30-pin Dock connector port. The position of these ports is a problem only when using audio devices with fat connectors. For example, my fat 1/4-inch stereo-plug-to-miniplug adapter wouldn’t fit on the nano when the Dock connector was also attached. While longtime iPod users may be initially thrown by plugging headphones into the bottom of the nano rather than the top, it’s actually an advantage if you carry the iPod in your pocket. When you lift it out of that pocket it’s oriented so you don’t need to flip it around to adjust its controls.

Speaking of the Dock connector, this iPod syncs only over a USB connection (though it can be charged via either a FireWire or USB connection). Apple suggests that this must be a USB 2.0 port, but I was able to sync the nano (albeit, very slowly) when it was plugged into my Power Mac G4’s USB 1.1 port. There’s no question that the lack of FireWire sync is going to be a problem for those with older computers that don’t have such a port. If you fall into this category, either look for a way to add a USB 2.0 port (via a PCI card or PC Card) or consider getting the larger iPod, which syncs with both USB 2.0 and FireWire.

Given the lack of support for FireWire syncing, it’s not surprising that Apple includes only a USB cable in the box (along with the usual Apple earbuds and foam covers, software disc, and documentation). Fortunately, unlike the mini or full-sized iPod, the nano doesn’t ask you to plug it into a power supply (such as Apple’s optional $29 iPod Power Adapter or a FireWire port) when you restore it with the iPod Updater.

In Control

Given its small size, the nano’s click wheel is responsive in normal use. You feel (and hear, in a quiet environment) a definite click when you press the wheel and the center Select button. As with other iPods, the nano scrolls smoothly as you twirl your thumb around the wheel. Like the iPod mini, this iPod can be a little finicky about accepting commands when you press the Select button and the click wheel at the same time (as you must when you reset the iPod by pressing Select and Menu). In my tests it sometimes took three or four tries to force the nano to reset.

Owners of other iPods may initially be thrown off by the responsiveness of the controls. At least one person who tried my nano thought it scrolled a little too quickly, making it difficult to exactly select the item he was after. When I first used the nano I had a similar experience but quickly adjusted to the feel of the iPod and my scrolling became more accurate over time.

Fast as a Flash

While some may complain about the speed of the controls, no one will be upset by how quickly the iPod nano moves from screen to screen. This is particularly noticeable when you’re viewing pictures. When looking at pictures on my 60GB iPod photo there’s a noticeable delay between the time I select a thumbnail image and finally see the “large” view of that image. The larger iPod must spin up the hard drive before it can display the image. Because the nano is flash memory-based, there’s no hard drive delay and images pop to the fore in no time. Similarly, tracks begin playing in short order.

The nano is also quicker to sync than other iPods. I synced the same 903-track playlist on a 4GB nano and a 4GB iPod mini. It took 9 minutes and 15 seconds to sync the nano. The mini took nearly 7 minutes longer to sync, finally finishing the job in 16 minutes and 13 seconds.

Regrettably, battery life isn’t nearly as good with the nano as it is with the 2G iPod mini. In tests where I’d fully charged a 6GB mini, selected the first song in the mini’s Songs screen, and pressed Play, the mini was able to squeeze out over 26 hours of play time even though Apple rated the mini’s battery charge at 18 hours. Apple suggests that the nano can play uninterrupted for up to 14 hours. My first audio play test fell short by just over an hour, with the nano giving up the ghost after 12 hours and 52 minutes. A subsequent audio test hit the 14 hour mark almost exactly. The nano’s battery performed a little better than advertised with slideshows. Apple claims the nano can show slideshows for up to 4 hours. In my test of a looping slideshow of 1,786 photos, the battery lasted for 4 hours and 36 minutes.

On Display

The blue-white LED backlight display is worth closer examination. Although it’s smaller by .17 inches (measured diagonally) than the display on the now-defunct iPod mini, it has greater resolution—offering a resolution of 176 x 132 pixels versus the mini’s 138 x 110 resolution. It also has a slightly smaller dot pitch—the measurement between pixels (a smaller value is better)—than today’s color iPod, providing a dot pitch of .168 mm versus the larger iPod’s dot pitch of .18 mm. These numbers translate into a sharp display, when lit, and one, unlike the mini, that includes Title, Artist, and Album information on the Now Playing screen (the mini offers Title and Artist information only). Regrettably, when the screen isn’t lit, it’s not easy to see what’s on it unless it’s under a direct light (either an indoor lamp or daylight).

Apple makes some accommodations for the smaller display. To begin with, a photo album’s screen, where you view thumbnails of your images, offers a 4 x 3 grid of thumbnails versus the 5 x 5 grid you find on the larger color iPods. This is a wise choice as a smaller grid would make it all but impossible to discern one image from another. Although similar images were difficult to tell apart (multiple portraits of the same subject, for example), I could clearly pick out discrete images.

And because the screen is so small, text can get cut off. Thankfully, the iPod nano takes a hint from the color iPod and, unlike the mini, scrolls selected text in a ticker-tape fashion in a music menu (Artists, Albums, Songs, and Podcasts screens, for example) as well as scrolls track titles in the Now Playing screen.

About the Extras

The nano includes a few extras not found on other iPods, specifically the Stopwatch, Screen Lock, and a new clock that allows you to create multiple analog/digital clocks in the nano’s Clock screen. I’ve covered the functionality of these features in my first look at the nano so I won’t repeat myself.

I will say, however, that the Stopwatch seems a perfect addition to this iPod given its no-skipping-while-exercising nature. And although the Screen Lock feature isn’t bulletproof—a bad ‘un could extract the nano’s music and data by plugging it into his or her computer—it does lock out the functionality of the nano when it’s unattached to a computer. The multiple clock feature, however, feels a little gimmicky.

I’m particularly pleased that the nano adds a Lyrics screen to the iPod’s Now Playing area. In this screen you can view any lyrics that you’ve added to the Lyrics tab of a Song Information window within iTunes 5. Currently the only way to add those lyrics is by hand—songs sold by the iTunes Music Store don’t (yet) have embedded lyrics.

One unexpected extra worth mentioning is not found in the nano’s interface but rather in its box. Included with each nano is Apple’s iPod dock Adapter. This adapter looks similar to the dock cradle adapters include with some iPod accessories. However, it’s not designed for today’s accessories. To assist iPod accessory manufacturers who are forced to come up with a new cradle design every time Apple issues a new iPod, Apple has created a single one-size-fits-all-with-the-right-Apple-adapter specification for companies that participate in the Made for iPod program. This is the first of these adapters and will fit future accessories. (For more information about how the nano gets along with today’s accessories, see The iPod nano: Accessories Addressed.)

Value

If you’re looking strictly for the greatest bang for your megabyte buck, this is not the iPod for you. A megabyte of storage on the 2GB model runs a fraction under $.10 and a little over $.06 for the 4GB nano. (Cost per megabyte is even higher for the iPod shuffle—measuring over $.19 for the 512MB shuffle and almost $.13 for the 1GB model.) Compare this with about two cents per megabyte on a $299 20GB iPod, and you’ll see that people who want the most for their money may pass on the nano’s cool form and handy size in favor of the higher-capacity iPod.

The Lowdown

A clear color screen, responsive and manageable controls, photo viewing, fast syncing, and impossibly thin. In my view the iPod nano is a nearly perfect fit for the middle of the iPod lineup, sounding great and mixing the best features of the shuffle, mini, and color iPod. While some may be disappointed by the lack of FireWire sync and consider the price of admission high given what you can have for $50 more than the 4GB model, your decision to purchase this slick little iPod may simply boil down to this: What are you willing to cough up for cool?

Because there just isn’t a cooler iPod on the planet.

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