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Just like its other southeastern neighbors, street food is everywhere is Thailand. Just walking down the food district streets can bring smells of grilled meats, sweet spices and exotic fruits. Every small shop is a little different, some with dishes sure to knock your socks off, and others that might possibly make you run in the other direction!

Imagine going to a fair or carnival with food stands and stalls lines up everywhere. This is exactly what it’s like in a Thai street food market. Instead of corndogs and lemon shake-ups, Typical Thai staples that you’ll find on the street include marinated and grilled meat skewers, bowls of hearty soups and stews and even fried local bananas. All of which, by the way, are absolutely delicious.

During the Cold War the name of Yalta was so notorious, as the three main leaders of the winning nations ( namely Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill) met here and settled the world map for 50 years. They met in Livadia Palace, 30 minutes away from Yalta, and you can visit now also this palace. This is one of your must do and must see in Yalta: pretending to organize the world, if you are in a group of three or more persons.

Livadia Palace hosted the Yalta Conference after the WWII, when Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed the new world order

Yalta lies in the Crimeea Peninsula on the Black Sea and is a part of Ukraina, but the population (80 000 people) is mostly Russian, and this is also the most spoken language in Yalta. It is advisable that you learn too some basic Russian phrases, as otherwise the prices tend to go up!. Amazing in Crimeea is the mild Mediteranean climate: in the winter there is practically no snow, due to the mountain protection. Sometimes, October is magnificent in Yalta: high summer temperature, good bathing waters. Besides, is off peak season with price falls!

Olympus is one of the biggest companies today to manufacture and design high quality digital cameras. Recently they have added a new member to its Mju Tough Line aka Stylus Tough. Just like all the other Tough series camera the new Mju Tough 6010 is shockproof, freezeproof and waterproof. Designed for tough conditions Olympus new camera is ready to take the heat anytime anywhere.

Looking at the features, the new Stylus Tough 6010 features a 12 Megapixel camera to make poster size prints. It is best for taking picture in tough conditions. Its high precision 3.6x wide optical zoom can prove to be great when capturing great scenes through to stunning close ups even in extreme conditions.

The Olympus Tough 6010 includes an Intelligent Auto Mode that has the ability to detect the 5 most commonly used scenes and adjust settings, focus and exposure automatically. Other than that it has a built-in Magic Filters to spice up your pictures

Comparing Hobart with other Australian major cities like Melbourne, Sidney, Adelaide it seems to be such an insignificant city. It only counts 250000 inhabitants and managed to preserve a genuine atmosphere. People all over Australia come here to remember the way Australia was a few decades ago, and the foreigners come for the Victorian atmosphere, which is so good preserved in the downtown Hobart.

Location of Hobart within Australia. Hobart is the capital city of Tasmania, Australia's tinniest state

Historically speaking, Hobart was founded in 1803 as a penal colony, thus being Australia’s second oldest city, behind Sidney. Afterwards, Hobart gained the reputation of an important harbor for the whale fishing in the Pacific Ocean, and the people started to settle in Hobart. Nowadays Hobart is still an important harbor for the Antarctic expeditions.

Central Business District in Hobart. The tallest building is the iconic Casino Hotel, the first official casino in the Victorian, sober and coservative Hobart

Sony is the world wide leader and manufacturers of some of the smartest mini notebook PC’s out there. They have recently added VAIO W Series Mini Notebook PC to their catalogue that features a standard netbook configurations.

The new VAIO W Series mini notebook pc is powered by Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor and is integrated with GMA950 graphics card. To fill up your important data it offers a decent storage capacity of 160GB along with 1 GB of Ram.

The VAIO W comes in three vibrant colors including berry pink, cocoa brown and sugar white. It features a 10.1 inch LED backlit LCD display and supports Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity. In addition to that it includes a Meda Plus Multimedia Streaming software that lets you stream wirelessly across DLNa-enabled devices and videos. Furthermore music and pictures can be accessd from your W Series to your PC or Playstation 3 and vice-versa.

There are many things to know about laos, a former colony in the French Indochina. First of all, it is a landlocked country with no access to ocean, closed by Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and China.

This particular thing made Laos isolated, and even today in the globalization era, Laos is very special, unbelievably special. On a surface of 230 000 sqkm (equally to Britain) live only 6 000 000 people. You have a lot of undiscovered corners in this country, let’s go to work!

HTC is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone industry and continues to pioneer industry-leading mobile experiences through design, usability and innovation. They have just announced their third Android smartphone called the Hero.

According to the company, the Hero tried to improve the phone with the HTC sense and includes Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected features. One of the features that will attract the Hero is the support for Adobe Flash. In fact this is will be first Android phone to ship with Adobe Flash support.

The Hero comes with a 3.2 inch 320×480 touchscreen LCD display. It and is powered by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz processor and offers 512MB ROM and 288MB RAM. In addition to that it offers 5 Megapixel auto focus camera along with integrated GPS receiver and a trackball with enter button.

Being a proud owner of Acer’s laptop I’m glad to spread the word that Acer has just added 3 new members to its Gemstone Family code name Aspire AS5536, Aspire AS7735Z and Aspire AS5739G. The company reveals that all notebooks come with a 16:9 widescreen, Dolby surround sound audio and a sapphire design known as Gemstone Blue.

“As part of our highly acclaimed Gemstone Blue family, the latest Aspire notebooks feature excellent price/performance and mainstream entertainment in a mobile PC that delivers significant value for their investment,” said Ray Sawall, senior manager of product marketing for Acer America. “Consumers are increasingly selecting notebooks as their primary device. As proven by our latest Aspire notebooks, we recognize that value-based mobile PCs need to offer appealing aesthetics as well as great performance and multimedia capabilities.”

The Acer Aspire AS5536