Canon EOS 450D

This is my first DSLR  that i just bought. Even though this is like an old model and bought it second hand, it still have a good specification and for beginner like me with no money or you can say already broke after buying this DSLR (T_T).

Started my search with this website such as lowyat forum, www.mudah.my and www.mylensdb.com with my budget price. I just found out about mylensdb when reading someone thread in lowyat forum and all i can say it a good website. You not just can seek info about DLSR kind of stuff, but it also directly show couple of online store and price list of the stuff that you are searching for and also the price in RM, so easy for you to estimate your own budget and also to estimate the second hand price like me. One more thing that i like about this website is u can see picture taken by people(thumbnail display with exif info from flickr) using the thing that we looking for. This features can also support more toward your decision because you know the thing you want to buy can take that kind of pictures or pictures that u imagine u gonna snap. Back to the story...

 After i got list down couple of model and give a thought, I choose EOS 450D , then i read the review on this model in www.dpreview.com for more detail (DSLR still new thing for me, so there lot thing that i didn't really understand what they talking about in here). Specification comparison, pictures example with different setting and pros and cons what i focus the most. Finally got my Canon EOS 450D with EF-S 18-55mm IS, Hoya 58mm PL-CIR Polarizing filter, Hoya 58mm Pro1 Digital MC UV filter, 4Gb Sandisk Extreme III SDHC card and EOS DLSR bag for RM 1.5k

After getting used to the DSLR, now I already feel like need other lens...zzz. more lens = more money T_T

What I'm interested is to shoot portrait, macro, HDR(3 exposure shot using AEB and combine with software) and landscape. I'm thinking of getting Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II for starter. Because of my poor condition, even though this lens is the cheapest among lens, still I'm looking for second hand that the price should be RM 200.

All my pictures will be uploaded in my flickr.

got some problem with my dslr...see the picture below...someone do give an idea or solution.

My Omnia 2 (I8000)

Omnia 2 (I8000) Specifications taken from www.gsmarena.com

General	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2009, June
	Status	Available. Released 2009, July
Size	Dimensions	118 x 59.6 x 12.3 mm
	Weight	123 g
Display	Type	AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 16M colors (65K effective colors)
	Size	480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches
		- TouchWiz 2.0 UI - Proximity sensor for screen auto turn-off and ambient light sensor - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Handwriting recognition
Sound	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes
		- 3.5 mm audio jack - DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine)
Memory	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	2/8/16 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
	Card slot	microSD, up to 32GB,
Data	GPRS	Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	EDGE	Class 12
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0
	Camera	Primary	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Features		Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, mobile blogging
Video		Yes, 720x480@30fps
Secondary		VGA videocall camera
Features	OS	Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5/6.5.3
	CPU	Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor, dedicated graphics accelerator
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM
	Browser	HTML, Opera Browser v9.5
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM recording
	Games	Yes, 3D interactive games + downloadable
	Colors	Black, White, Pink
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support; navigation application
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
		- Photo editor, video editor - DivX/XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player - MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WMDRM/OMA DRM 2.1 player - Find Music service - Media Gate 3D - Google Search, Maps, Gmail - YouTube, Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Myspace, Friendster apps - Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer) - TV-out - Mobile Tracker - Business card scanner
	Battery		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
		Stand-by	Up to 430 h (2G) / Up to 430 h (3G)
Talk time		Up to 12 h (2G) / Up to 8 h (3G)
Misc	SAR US	0.59 W/kg (head)     0.30 W/kg (body)
	SAR EU	0.17 W/kg (head)

You can also read on preview and review at there because they have really good detail info on this phone. Basically, all the phone there, they have really good detail. If you want to buy phone, go to this website first.

I'm still using the official rom that is PDA: I8000NXXIJ9, CSC: I8000XSOIJ2 and PHONE: I8000DXIJ1. i still use official rom because don't want to void warranty, don't have custom rom that meet my requirement and lastly still studying on how to make lite rom.

This is the modification that i do. So first of all i disable the TouchWiz UI 2.0 and istall spbmobile shell so u can get super smooth menu compare to TouchWiz UI 2.0. Such a waste if Samsung don't improve they TouchWiz UI. To add more customization to your spbmobile shell you can install [MobileShell Addon]MobileSense 3.5.3.20100206.en (included BackgroundChanger) by naong .

List of apps that i use :
1. Total Commander (file explorer and also registry editor) (free)
2. Advanced Configuration Tool v3.3 (free)
3. NoData (toggle gprs connection) (free)
4. SRS WOW HD (sound enhancement) (free)
5. CleartTemp 1.23 (free)
6. OmniaSIP (toggle SIP) (free)
7. FingerKeyboard2.1 (optional keyboard) (free)
8. Deluxe Moon (nice graphic moon phase) (free)
9. eIslamExplorer 2.0 (quran for muslim) (free)
10. New Dice
11. O2 Compass v3.3
12. Shake and Save (screenshot)

GPS
I'm using Garmin Mobile XT with the map from www.malfreemaps.com. You can also use mapking but need to install port splitter to make it work.

SMS
It has nice sms threading (known as jinbox.exe inside window mobile) but not integrated properly. There are a way to make it work by using registry. See here.
If you want to use window default threaded sms, you can see here. It has good tutorial on enable window sms threaded and also how to change window default skin. Tried this before but i still not really meet my satisfaction.
Right now im using SMS-Chat, with this i can easily get rid of sms notification and when you receive sms, it automatically pop up it own notification so that notification from window will be disable and you can click that pop up to go directly to SMS-Chat. It threaded sms with smiley support. The downside is it cannot use mms. you need to use default window sms to send mms.

Increasing my volume sound using this guide here.
I will add more on what i customize with my omnia 2

For now if u need more info can go check at www.samsung-omnia.org on how to user manual, www.modaco.com omnia 2 tweaks, flash, guide, suggested programs and faq and forum.xda-developers.com for omnia 2

My screen shot

7 Best Stress-Fighting Foods

This article was taking from Yahoo! Health

This was the food that can fight stress
1. Papaya
2. Peppermint Tea
3. Pumpkin Seeds
4. Avocados
5. Salmon
6. Almonds
7. Oatmeal

It a good information and you can read detail there. oh i almost forgot, this food for eating purpose only and if you want to try any other method, you welcome to try but be warn, do at your own risk ok.