Word: compacting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said Michael L. Vinson ’07, President of the Harvard Kuumba singers, who sang in Sanders Theater Saturday night. “Most of the time, we’re so busy with our own things that it’s really nice to have one compact weekend to just go out and support each other.”Most events boasted high attendance rates throughout the weekend; many performances, which sometimes struggle for audiences during the rest of theyear, played to packed houses as families, friends, and Cantabrigians ventured out to partake in the celebration...
...BAGGING IT Shaun Jackson Design's Higher Ground laptop bags are light, compact and cleverly configured to obviate the need for a desk. Several of the small company's cool cases are marketed toward students but serve business travelers equally well...
...EasyShare V610 looks, at a glance, like other compact point-and-shoot cameras. Only a bit larger than an iPod and hardly thicker than a deck of cards, it has a spacious 2.8-in. LCD screen. However, as you power it up, the front cover slides open and you realize something strange is going on: the V610 has two lenses...
...results are surprising. I haven't been crazy about Kodak cameras' picture quality of late, but the 6-megapixel V610 took some terrific pictures. Outdoors at full zoom, shots were crisp and clear. Indoors, where Kodak's compact cameras tend to have more trouble, shots came out clean, without the blurring or graininess that sometimes occurs. In fact, I tested the Kodak alongside the chunkier Panasonic's Lumix TZ1, and the Kodak outperformed the TZ1 shot for shot. I was not expecting that...
...Compact size is not the only reason Kodak's 10X camera lists for $100 more than Panasonic's. The V610 also has built-in Bluetooth, for transferring photos to nearby cell phones or computers. In the past I've had some hard times with Bluetooth file transfers, especially from a phone to a Windows PC. This time I was able to send full-resolution shots from the camera to a Bluetooth-enabled iMac on my first try. It only took seconds. If you're sending shots to a phone, you have the option of downgrading them to QVGA or XVGA...