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		<title>Amazon Customer Reviews For The Nikon D300</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you but before I buy anything for over $20 I go online and do a search an look for negative feedback on a product. It was therefore no surprise when I came across the 5 star rating that the Nikon D300 achieved at Amazon.com. With 190 positive recommendations/testimonials you would have [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but before I buy anything for over $20 I go online and do a search an look for negative feedback on a product. It was therefore no surprise when I came across the 5 star rating that the Nikon D300 achieved at Amazon.com.</p>
<p>With 190 positive recommendations/testimonials you would have to be nuts to consider any other camera in its class. Here are a few snippets from those comments:</p>
<p>To catch up on our D300 Review &#8211; <a href="http://nikond300review.com/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></p>
<p>1. Incredible color, tone, highlights/shadow rendition: this Nikon is best of breed!<br />Since 2006 I have owned a D200 for serious shooting situations and I got a D40 in early &#8217;07 for everyday shots (an awesome camera &#8211; I give it SIX stars! &#8211; a whole separate review is needed!), and after hearing about the D300 release in late 2007 I debated over whether to get one.</p>
<p>2. This is the perfect camera for an advanced amateur.</p>
<p>The main strengths are: <br />(1) the excellent ergonomics and design: the camera controls are perfectly laid out. This makes the camera feel very fast and responsive. Everything about the camera is designed to allow you to change settings quickly and effortlessly. An example: the auto-ISO feature changes completely how you shoot in quickly changing lighting. Think about shooting sports in a stadium where half the field is covered in shadow &#8211; with auto-ISO you can set your parameters and then forget about the camera and just worry about catching the action. It also features endless customization which is great when you have to live with your camera day and night &#8211; if something in the interface annoys you, just change it to what you like.</p>
<p>3. I upgraded from a D80 which I had for more than 1 year. The D80 is a very good camera, and the D300 is a significant upgrade. What I like most about the camera is that the D300 has the ability to shoot with vivid colors while at the same time keeping a natural appearance. This leads to images looking better than what they looked like in real life.</p>
<p>4. To start I am an a amateur photographer with about two years experience. <br />I own a D40,which was my first and really enjoy it for family and everyday shooting.Great colors and focus.I then purchased the D80 which I have had <br />great success with and love it!But when I purchased the D300 there is no <br />comparison.The 51 point focus is awesome and the color choices are unbelievable! This thing is awesome when it comes to speed and focus.Quick <br />accurate response time is great for nature and fast moving subjects. <br />The pictures you take will make you feel like a pro with the very first shots taken. <br />The menu is so easy to use that it makes ease of changing and getting exactly what you&#8217;re looking for.There is a lot in the menu but with a little time you&#8217;ll get it fine because it has a help section.Anyone thinking of going another step up to a pro camera should not look elsewhere as Nikon truly has created a gem!To me this is a five star camera because of performance and the rugged build quality,A+</p>
<p>Need we say more? Check out our Review &#8211; <a href="http://nikond300review.com/">CLICK HERE</a></p>
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		<title>15+ Really Sweet iPhone Tips</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>When I spend about half a grand on a cell phone, I&#8217;m thinking . . . &#8220;i want to get my money&#8217;s worth!&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s how I feel, anyway &#8212; which is why I made it my business to put my new iPhone through the paces from jump street by scouring the web&#8217;s most serious iPhone resources for the most useful power tips/ tricks available. The result is this collection of <a href="http://usacellsearch.com/15-iphone-tips-2/">16 iPhone power tips</a> that will help you get even more enjoyment out of your new favorite toy!  Some of these, granted, you&#8217;ll need to Google to get the current URL.  But, if you want, you can just click the link for the complete article with photos and videos.</p>
<p><strong>1. Unstick a Stuck Slider:</strong> if you&#8217;re iPhone&#8217;s slider ever gets stuck &#8212; as in, it simply refuses to do anything when you try to slide it, usually because you want to make the iPhone up to use it &#8212; here is a fix from <em>iPhone Atlas</em> (www.iphoneatlas.com): press the Home button once before attempting to move the slider for the first time.</p>
<p><strong>2. Make Skype calls:</strong> Up-front disclaimer: We&#8217;re not talking about free, voice-over-IP (VOiP) Skype calls here. We&#8217;re talking about making SkypeOut calls, which are not free but can drastically reduce the cost of making international calls on your iPhone.  Matter of fact, SoonR lets you access Apple Mail files, mailboxes, and contacts.  It also lets you grab documents from your Mac for viewing on iPhone, including PowerPoint presentations and all that kinda&#8217; good stuff.</p>
<p><strong>3. Know Where to Go for the 411:</strong> Lucky for you, the world has gone iPhone crazy. That means there a lot of excellent sources of info on the latest iPhone developments out there on the web. Bad news: there&#8217;s a lot of crap, also. Here&#8217;s a short list of our favorite iPhone info sites:</p>
<p>- modmyiPhone.com<br /> &#8211; iPhoneFreak.com<br /> &#8211; iPhoneAlley.com<br /> &#8211; The Unofficial Apple Weblog&#8217;s iPhone page<br /> &#8211; Gizmodo&#8217;s iPhone coverage<br /> &#8211; iPhoneAtlas.com</p>
<p>While you&#8217;re checking these sites, keep in mind that some sites you might already be visiting on a regular basis have really done a super job of becoming iPhone-friendly, including Digg.com, Amazon.com, FaceBook.com, and Netvibes.com!</p>
<p><strong>4. Play Great Games:</strong> You know what Jack says about all work and no play! Not that the web surfing you&#8217;re doing on your iPhone is all work-related, yeah right? Games &#8212; most of which are free &#8212; are starting to pop up for the iPhone, and we&#8217;re sure there will be more where those came from. For now, you can just launch the Safari browser when your iPhone and visit these hot game sites:</p>
<p>-  <strong>MacMost&#8217;s collection of iPhone games,</strong> including classics like solitaire and minesweeper (free, MacMost iPhone Games).</p>
<p>- <strong>mynuMo has 4 iPhone games,</strong> including iWhack &#8212; a whack-a-mole knockoff where the mole&#8217;s replaced by a headshot of Microsoft&#8217;s Steve Ballmer &#8212; and Blackjack (also free, myNuMo iPhone Games).</p>
<p>- <strong>iGiki&#8217;s games,</strong> which include Hangman and Canyon Crawl &#8212; aren&#8217;t free, but then, they&#8217;re only a buck a pop and might be just what you need when you get tired of the freebies (99 cents per game pack for 99 days, iGiki Games).</p>
<p>- <strong>PopCap&#8217;s Bejeweled,</strong> (free, PopCap Bejeweled).</p>
<p><strong>5. Beat a Shortcut to your Fave iPhone Apps:</strong> Handy iPhone apps, like Leaflets (free, Get Leaflets) and Applists (free, Get Applists) put most iPhone apps your fingertips, but if you want to build your own list, just collect the apps you tend to use the most into the same bookmarks folder in Safari on <em>your computer</em>. Then, the next time you sync your iPhone, using iTunes, be sure to check &#8220;Sync Safari Bookmarks&#8221; on the info tab, under Web browser.</p>
<p><strong>6. Rehang the Wallpaper:</strong> If you&#8217;re up for a bit of iPhone hacking, you can take any image you find anywhere on the web and turn it into a custom wallpaper.</p>
<p>But there is a much easier way: Download a 320&#215;480 pixel image for free from a variety of online sources, saving them all in the same folder on your Mac. In iTunes, with your iPhone docked, select your iPhone, click the Photos tab, select the radio button next to &#8220;Sync Photos From&#8230;,&#8221; then from the drop-down list, select &#8220;Choose Folder&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Next, browse to the folder you just created, then click &#8220;Apply&#8221; in the lower-right hand corner. Finally, on your iPhone, go to Settings, Wallpaper, Photo Library to hang your new wallpaper!</p>
<p><strong>7. Take Self-Portraits</strong> Because the iPhone camera shutter&#8217;s button is a &#8220;soft&#8221; (i.e., onscreen) button, it&#8217;s a bit tricky to take self-portraits with it since you have to turn the phone around so you can no longer see the button.  Here&#8217;s the solution: with the camera feature selected, place your finger on the camera icon and turn the phone around so you&#8217;re facing the lens. Then, smile pretty and let go of the shutter button! You&#8217;ll hear the telltale &#8220;click&#8221; &#8212; and, you&#8217;ve just taken a self-portrait!</p>
<p><strong>8. Reveal Secret Features:</strong> When Apple released the first firmware update for the iPhone on August 1, 2007, it did so with little fanfare, and attributed most of the updates to &#8220;security fixes.&#8221;  <em>The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s</em> Walt Mossberg discovered a few new non-security-related features on his side phone after the update including:</p>
<p>- Greater capacity in the iPhone module&#8217;s Favorites list (used to be 20, is now 50).<br /> &#8211;  Ability to automatically blind carbon copy (BCC) yourself on all e-mails sent, where previously, your only option was to CC yourself, which alerted your recipients what you were up to&#8230; <br /> &#8211;  Compatibility with some car adapters and external speakers, originally created for the iPod.  For more iPhone and tech tidbits, visit Walt&#8217;s blog.</p>
<p><strong>9. Just Ditch the Camera Altogether:</strong> On the other hand, if you know you&#8217;ll never use the iPhone&#8217;s camera, you can just remove it altogether. (If you work for or with certain government agencies, you&#8217;re iPhone may actually be considered &#8220;contraband&#8221; on their property because they don&#8217;t want you taking secret photos of Bigfoot, Elvis, or (believe it or not) alien spaceships!</p>
<p><strong>10. Get the Official Mod Tool:</strong> If you&#8217;ve already had to send your iPhone back to Apple for warranty repair or replacement, you may have already discovered something different about the replacement iPhone. First off, it comes in a much thinner box. Second, it comes complete with the &#8220;official iPhone SIM card removal tool&#8221;: a paperclip! Yup, Apple actually supplies a paperclip with all replacement iPhones, along with instructions for using it to open the SIM card slot and insert your card!</p>
<p><strong>11. Buy Spare Parts:</strong> If you&#8217;re the type who simply can&#8217;t resist trying to take your iPhone apart, here&#8217;s where to go to find replacement parts when you go too far: iPhone Parts.  Sources of mine told me that Apple charges $300 for a replacement screen, but you can get one from iFixIt for only $199.95.</p>
<p><strong>12. Kill that Annoying GSM Buzz:</strong> If you hear a buzzing sound, while using an iPhone cassette adapter in your car stereo, such as <em>Monsters iCarPlay</em> &#8212; which claims to be iPhone-compatible (but doesn&#8217;t appear anywhere on Monster&#8217;s website) &#8212; Gizmodo offers a low-tech solution: aluminum foil&#8230;  Yup, just take a little bit of Reynolds Wrap and wrap it around the cable closest to your iPhone. Doing so eliminates the need to switch to &#8220;Airplane mode,&#8221; which would be a viable solution if it didn&#8217;t send your incoming calls to voicemail!</p>
<p><strong>13. Find Wi-Fi Hotspots in Your Neighborhood:</strong> <em>JiWire</em> makes it easy to find the nearest hotspot when your iPhone &#8212; so you can rescue yourself from the slow-moving hell that is <em>AT&amp;T&#8217;s</em> EDGE data service. Surf on over to iphone.jiwire.com on your iPhone and fill in your location. If you&#8217;re a cheapskate (like me), check the box for &#8220;Search Free Hotspots Only.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>14. More Wi-Fi Performance Enhancements:</strong> Apple has a potentially useful collection of WiFi related iPhone tips in a regularly-updated knowledgebase article on its website. Suggestions include fixing problems like paid WiFi connections that drop off suddenly, weak WiFi signals, and WiFi connections that revert to EDGE due to issues with WEP passwords, or problems with Mac address filtering.</p>
<p><strong>15. &#8220;Hack&#8221; Your iPhone!:</strong> Disclaimer: this tip isn&#8217;t for everybody.  Some of these &#8220;hacks&#8221; (i.e., self-made modifications to the iPhone&#8217;s default behavior) are intended for people who have experience changing the way their computers behave by accessing the underlying code governing such behavior. You&#8217;ve been warned.</p>
<p>- <strong>For Macs:</strong> iFuntastic and Installer.app. <br /> &#8211; <strong>For Windows:</strong> Installer.app or iBrickr.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve installed one of the above helper apps, you can try an ever-expanding array of iPhone mods. With iFuntastic, for example, you can add your own custom ringtones, rearrange the Home screen, and change the AT&amp;T logo. Installer.app goes even further, letting you install and play Nintendo games that feature tactile feedback!  The good folks at Gizmodo.com  make it easy for Mac users to take advantage of this newfound power over their iPhones with a handy tutorial (visit their site and search for <em>install apps iPhone</em>).</p>
<p><em>Windows users can also use a helper app called </em><em>iBricker</em> to modify their iPhone, install custom ringtones, and install third-party apps. But, if all you care about is adding custom ringtones, you might want to try <a href="http://www.efksoft.com/products/iphoneringtonemaker/">Efiko&#8217;s iPhoneRingToneMaker</a> ($10).</p>
<p><strong>16. Just Don&#8217;t Be a Sucker!:</strong> While searching for the latest iPhone apps, you could run across some websites that&#8217;ll offer you instant access to <em>hundreds</em> of the latest apps &#8212; all for one-time membership fee of $49.95. These sites include, but are not limited to, www.iphonenova.com, www.iphonecyclone.com, and www.iphonedownloadpro.com.  Problem here, is that these sites (IMHO) are scams.</p>
<p>I ponied up $50 for membership to <em>iPhoneNova</em>, for example, which claims to be the &#8220;World&#8217;s First iPhone Download Service.&#8221; Guess what it really is? It&#8217;s a BitTorrent-like site for downloading illegal content you can view on your <a href="http://usacellsearch.com/category/cell-phone/">iPhone or iPod</a>.</p>
<p>But, your $50 membership only gets you a BitTorrent client called Tomato Torrent and links for you to download two more <span style="text-decoration: underline;">already-free apps</span> that help you convert existing videos and ripped DVD content to be viewed on your iPod/ iPhone.  You also get links to a mere five (5) web-based iPhone games and a huge, poorly-organized list of illegal movie downloads like &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; and &#8220;Transformers.&#8221;  Nuff said; as Napoleon Dynamite would say, &#8220;&#8230;What a Rip-off&#8221;!</p>
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