Travel Guides

Bratislava is a magnificent place to visit and even to live. Similar in many aspects to Prague, it offers a good feeling of safety. I would say: it is still a provincial city offering the advantages of a Middle European capital. It is very safe, it is not overcrowded by tourists and is relatively cheap ( not very cheap, but offers good value for the money you spend).

Bratislava Old Town with The Bratislava Castle

Bratislava is literally bordering Austria and Hungary; Vienna is only 50 km away, Prague 220; Budapest 400. Long time Bratislava has been in the shadow of these notorious cities of the former Hapsburg Empire. Bratislava met some dramatic changes in the structure of its population, which is nowadays 90 % Slovak. But in the Middle Age, under the name Pressburg, was renowned as German city. Also in the Middle Age, Bratislava was the capital of Hungary, under the name of Poszonyi! I would say, that Bratislava is like a capuccino: 3 in 1!

Samsung brings a broad range of award-winning, digital consumer electronics and home appliance products, including HDTVs, home theater systems, MP3 players, digital imaging products, refrigerators and washing machines. Recently they have announced their SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 Touch of Color Camcorders.

These new cameras come with a very unique design and both of them features a 10x optical zoon along with Hyper Image Stabilization, Active Angle lens to reduce fatigue by allowing consumers to grip the camcorder in a more relaxed manner.

Senior vice president of Audio/Video and Digital Imaging Marketing at Samsung Electronics America, Reid Sullivan said that the SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 are truly unique camcorders, starting with their eye-catching ToC design. In addition to being ultra-compact, ergonomic and stylish, these camcorders offer a host of advanced, yet easy-to-use capabilities that encourage consumers to integrate video recording into their everyday digital lifestyles.

I earlier wrote about how important and useful EEE pcs can be for you on your trips. Not only because they are small and look good but they offer almost all the neccessary tools you would possibly need. This includes battery time, ram and harddrive.

Recently Asus Japan has announced their new Eee Pc code name “1003HAG” which features an integrated WWAN module that supports NTT DocoMo’s FOMA hight speed network and offers up to 7.2Mbps downlink speed.

The new Asus 1003HAG is powered by Atom N280 1.6Hz processor and it HSDPA-enabled. In addition to that it offers a 1GB ram and 160 hard drive which I personally think is more than enough for you to carry your documents, music or movies with you. It features a 10 inch LCD display with 1024×600 resolution and a Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n. Furthermore it includes

• Bluetooth connectivity
• 1.3 Megapixel camera

Samsung is the leading provider of mobile devices all over the world. Recently they have unveiled their new Android powered phone known as the Samsung I7500. The new Samsung Android phone features a full 3.2 inch touch screen display along with 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash and an array of Google services. These services promise better user experience based on Google’s Android Platform.

Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics explains that Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most innovative Android mobile phone. With Samsung’s accumulated technology leadership in mobile phone industry and consistent strategy to support every existing operating system, it is believed that the new Samsung I7500 will provide the better choices and benefits to their consumers.

Did you think about your daily habits and what could they mean for the people from over few centuries? Did you think that the city you live could vanish and remain without any inhabitants? Of course you did!

Visiting ghost towns is for some travelers the favorite way of spending vacations, and a must for any experienced travelers. It is fascinating to visit a ghost towns and ask all possible questions about the people living there in the blossom times of those settlements. Sometimes is really fascinating to speculate about the possible reasons of the decay of the ghost towns (natural disasters; climate change; foreign occupations and lost wars; economic decay etc). There are many Ghost Towns around the world. Some of them were ruling places of wonderful civilizations (Roman, Inca, Maya etc); some of them are much newer and are no more than 2 centuries old ( Gold Rushes from Far West, Australia and Alaska created a few interesting Ghost Towns).

Asus has rolled out their manual free auto-installation for easy digital and analog tv viewing. The new Asus express Tv stick features high quality digital and analog TV signal reception. In addition to that it also hosts a versatile utilities. It allows users to conveniently watch TV and enjoy access to multimedia entertainment whenever, wherever they want.

Since it provides manual free auto-install and comes with pre-installed software, you wouldn’t need to bother going through the manual and configure it yourself. With Asus’s Express TV Stick Hybrid You can easily enjoy TV viewing or recording in a few simple steps. y just inserting the ASUS Express TV Stick into the computer’s USB 2.0 port, it will automatically install software to enable recording or viewing of high-quality digital and analog TV programs.

Orange UK has recently announced the availability of their new touchscreen phone known as the “Orange Vegas”. The company claims that it is the cheapest full touchscreen handset in the market today. It is available for purchase at the carrier points of sale across UK or online.

The Orange Vegas may not as cute as you expect it to be but I guess we can all make an exception here because it is priced at nly 48.50 GPS for pay-as-you-go customers. Currently this handset comes in 2 colors including Pink and Black.

It comes with a 2.4 inch TFT touchscreen and the user interface is exclusively designed for Orange. In addition to that it features a 1.3 Megapixel snapper which is capable of taking images and videos and of course the music player followed by the microSD card slot. The microSD card is expandable up to 4GB of memory. An additional features includes free access to services like Facebook, Myspace and Bebo. Other than that it also offers a built-in FM radio and Bluetooth connectivity.

Riga, as the capital and biggest city of Latvia, had a very interesting history. The city was grounded in the XIIth century by German immigrants and soon became a full member of Hansa, a German association of the most important Baltic ports ( other members were Hamburg, Rostock, Bremen etc). Riga continued its ascension and blossomed again by the end of XIXth century, due to a strong German and Jewish community.

Cathedral Square in Riga

The XXth century was not good at all for Riga, as  the city was almost uninterruptedly under foreign occupation. First came the Germans during the WWII and destroyed the Jewish minority to extinction. Then came the Soviets, which have brutally ruled for 50 years. Through mass  deportations, planned economy etc they reached an unprecedented record: the Latvian majority of population became actually a minority! More amazing: they still preserved a national conscience and they claimed an independent Latvia, which they get today!