iPhone4 cases

Since I had the iPhone4 I was really worried about how to protect the beautiful glass-aluminium device. Then, I went to a store that provide me any case I could need for it, and I have tried three of them, open, semi-open and close cases.
So, here there are some of the cases, what I think about their functionality and if they really work well for the daily needs.


Open cases
Advantages:
   - almost full protection when not using it
   - friendly ports when using it
   - not bulky, so gets its beautiful shape
   - easy slip
   - prevents from scratches over surfaces
Disadvantages:
   - no protection when using it
   - no protection on the top of it when it's not in use
   - only can used one of the ports when it's inside the case
      (or listening to music, or charging)

                Conclusion: Recommended

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                                                      Semi-open cases
Advantages:
   - almost full protection when not using it

   - friendly ports when using it
      (with Bumper only can be used the Apple plug to charge)
   - not very bulky
   - pretty easy slip
   - prevents scratches over surfaces because of the 2mm case
Disadvantages:
   - no back nor front fully protection
   - some people has realised that it scratches a bit of the aluminium
     (in my case it have not)
 

Conclusion: Recommended

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                                                      Close cases
                                                      Advantages:
   - back protection
   - friendly ports (headphones minijack, 30-pin dock connector, mic)
   - some are not bulky (thick plastic)
   - easy slip
   - transparent
Disadvantages:
   - when making a picture with flash it gets blur and upper lighted
      (very bad!)
   - non aluminum protection
     - some are made of rubber, so it gets difficult to get out of pockets
   - some are made of very robust material, it makes it bulky

Conclusion: Not quite recommended

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Other protections 
Advantages:
   - full screen protection from scratches
Disadvantages:
   - some of them get finger prints which original screen does not

 

                    Conclusion: Very recommended

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Parecidos razonables (III)

He aquí otro post hablando de los parecidos que podemos encontrar con los famosillos. Esta vez también os muestro los parecidos entre diferentes personas, pero desde otro punto de vista que no sea sólo en el ambiente que se rodean. He ido más allá y he querido que esas personas se pudieran relacionar más que en el mundillo que se mueven o qué idioma hablen, o cuántos años tengan.
 

Tita Cervera

Dakota Fanning

Goldie Hawn

Amanda Seyfried

Madonna

Otros posts relacionados:
- Parecidos razonables (I)
- Parecidos razonables (II)


       

Work or study?

The question: Is the university student lifetime better than the work time after the student time?
Ok, I realise that maybe at the first moment you'll get that question you can't be very objective. First, because it depends on which side you are. If you are an university student you'd think work will be a better time because you do not have exams, and when you come back home you don't have to do anything but relax. However, if you are actually working, you'd probably think that's au contraire! Secondly, it's hard to equilibrate both worlds. Here there are some of the facts to take in consideration:


(Before) As a student
Advantages:
- No worry about anything but "did I heart there's a party tonight?"
- New friends (and/or boy/girlfriends)
- Great lifetime in the Campus/ Erasmus
Disadvantages:
- No money refund for the work done
- Exams, so study after class
- Long time with no good job until you find it


(After) As a worker
Advantages:
- Money refund for the work done
- No study after work, just relax until next day
- Have home like you've ever like, not like your parents tell you to be
Disadvantages:
- Mortgage 
- Pay taxes: water, light, electricity,...
- Older



Well, there they are, some could be true according to your life some of them not... So, if you think there could be more advantages or disadvantages feel free to comment and fill the possible blanks you see could be there. Maybe we'll make a complete study of sociology!

2000

On Friday 5th it has announced the 2000th visitant in The World of Emma's Reality! Unconsciously (or not), this is getting bigger and bigger!

I hope everyone is enjoying the site. If not, you know, you can always comment any post you like, you dislike or just want to bring new ideas. Again, you are welcome!

[Ç] Sant Narcís

FESTES DE GIRONA! És impossible que aquestes festes es puguin oblidar, i menys si tens uns amics que t'estan donant la tabarra durant tot l'any per sortir aquests dies.
Pels gironins són uns dies tant o més importants que els de Nadal!

Ara tinc el dilema, no sé quines allargarguen més la nit, si les festes de Gràcia, les de Sans o bé les de Girona... La gent és diferent, a Barcelona són barris que es gaudeix per l'esplendor de la decoració i tot un barri està despert... hi ha escenaris a cada plaça! a Girona és diferent... abans de les 12 hi ha tasts, paradetes que venen productes handmade i la festa està l'aire lliure, al costat del parc de la Devesa, molt natural tot... mai millor dit! tot està concentrat en un escenari, però és molt gros i poden cabre moltes persones! A més, hi ha les famoses barraques, super importants, són el temple sagrat durant les Fires. Estan distibuïdes en mig cercle, com un amfiteatre, i just a la punta l'escenari. Com veieu molta gresca, i més si en aquell moment toca algun grup musical. Ara que, aquest any he trobat que n'hi havien menys, o m'ho ha semblat a mi?

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Res, ha estat molt bé! al menys tots els dies hem acabat d'una peça! ;)
Ahir, encara vàrem aprofitar per sortir més; avui encara ens dura la festa, però demà ja vindrà la depressió de pensar que ens tocarà esperar un altre any!
       

Apple Sneak Peek (October 20th)

Seriously? Is that all? I don't know, but when Apple plans to do a Keynote, even if it is not the "big one" in June, I think that Apple has to make a huge improvement on their products. Every time, after I watch one of those Sneak Peek, I am really excited. This time, however, after watching it, I wasn't. The excitement that came to me when I have heard about this October Keynote it came deeply down, and all my positive feelings about getting a new product or at least have a big leap in my Mac software were diseased.

- About the new MacBook Air... Well, all right, it is a netbook but without CD slot... I have the iPad, I have a MacBook Pro, where's the deal?
- About Facetime for Mac... Well, all right, it can only run in Mac OS X Snow Leaopard... Oh, darn! I have Mac OS X Leopard in all my Macbooks... "Great"!

Further information from the Sneak Peek, click here.



Although I have said all of this above, I though that maybe we are pushing too much Apple Inc. to impress us in a short period of time. I believe that every company has to make the best effort to improve their products. However, that doesn't mean that we have to wait for them so quick that we have no time to know the evolution of the previous one. With all that, I want to share that Apple Inc. is one of the best technology companies in the world. They had won this definition because they really work hard, and we are, testing their products, helping them to know what is the best technology for us. But it is not a help making them rush out, because science is a matter of time, work and cooperation, not a bunch of critics that goes nowhere but making the main definition of evolution empty.

So, for that matter, I try to write what I feel in the way that actually can not hurt the one or the what I am criticising.

Parecidos razonables (II)

Sabemos que hay siempre famosas que se parecen, bien se ve en las diferentes actrices y cantantes del "mundillo" y bien ya lo comenté con el post del 20 de septiembre de 2010. Como sabía que siempre hay los/las que nos gusta ir más allá que no sólo quedarnos con un post de "parecidos razonables"... he buscado otras famosillas que se parezcan.

Kelly Clarkson, Mandy Moore & Julia Stiles

 

Otros posts relacionados:
- Parecidos razonables (I)
- Parecidos razonables (III)


 

Out of Town

Recommended link: Life out of web. Sunny, cloudy, rainy, better living it than seeing it.

Productos genuínamente falsos

Además de esto, también encontramos otros ads que ofrecen comprar diferentes productos que aparentemente son reales y con "¡mucha calidad!". Ya... En fin, ¿Alguien sabe que es un Android Tablet PC? Aunque así se llamara un producto, la foto del ad no tiene desperdicio: ¡Te pagan por tenerlo! ¡Lo compras con -125€!








Este anuncio tampoco tiene desperdicio. Presentan un teléfono móbil con las mismas características que un modelo iPhone 3GS, pero con un toque de iPod Touch y un OS Android (cámara, FM, Java, etc...). La oferta es también es melosa, ¡te dan (te hacen) un 10% de descuento!







Otro anuncio que es digno de ser visto, que también trata de un móbil similar al de iPhone es el HiPhone. Este trata de ser como los demás pero con el último modelo hasta la fecha (2010), el iPhone 4. El diseño es muy parecido, pero parece aún mejor. Parece... Tiene Java, televisión y lugar para doble tarjeta SIM... ¡Y sólo cuesta 129 Dólares! (Unos 93 Euros)








El mismo anuncio semanas después se puede ver que el precio ha bajado ¡considerablemente!, y eso no es todo. Ya entra dentro del mercado europeo y regala una tarjeta de 2GB, con TV, dos SIM... En fin, sin más comentarios a añadir.






Otro y último anuncio de este post es sobre el iPad, lo encontré el miércoles pasado, con lo cual hace ya casi medio año que lo sacaron y aún me dicen que "Todavía no está en las tiendas".
Con todo esto, me viene un telele...

¿Jugamos?

En muchas páginas web encontramos que nos ofrecen jugar a cambio de una "recompensa", la cual está asociada al juego que se juega. Como soy una fan Apple y normalmente entros en sites que tienen algo que ver con los productos de éste. Por consiguiente los anuncios, juegos que se me presentan en las páginas pueden ser diversos tipos.

Ya sé que he posteado otras veces sobre diferentes ads, pero como que éstos son nuevos y tienen algo que ver con lo que me gusta, es decir, la tecnología Apple, pues aquí os lo enseño.
















Aquí hay otro anuncio, que aunque no sea de tecnología también vale la pena mirárselo, pues es básicamente, digámoslo, diferente de los demás de fútbol.

Parecidos razonables (I)

Bien es muldialmente sabido que hay actores y actrices que tienen un gran parecido. Aún se acentúa más cuando éstas siguen una moda concreta. Sea el maquillaje, sea el peinado, sea la manera de vestir.

Aquí os hago una relación de una estirpe de bellezas muy parecidas entre sí: Lilly Alen, Emily Blunt, Zoey Deschannel, Anna Friel, Katy Perry.
Aunque se parezcan, me encanta el rasgo característico que cada una de ellas quiere presumir.


Lilly Alen

Emily Blunt

Zoey Deschannel

Anna Friel

Katy Perry
























Otros posts relacionados:

- Parecidos razonables (II)
- Parecidos razonables (III)

        

Differences

With the occasion of the new Apple September '10 Keynote; which, as usually, was about music products of Apple Inc. I wanted to fill the points to the list of the differences between the iPhone and the new (sept. '10) iPod Touch. And, as seen on the first time both gadgets (2007), I wanted to make an update*.


DIFFERENCES IN 2008
- There is no email client on the iPod Touch
- There is no Maps application on the iPod Touch
- There are no Stocks or Weather widgets on the iPod Touch
- There is no built-in camera for the iPod Touch
- There are no Blutooth capabilities for the iPod Touch
- The iPod Touch has a differently styled "Dock," with a reflective surface -- akin to the Dock that will debut with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- While the iPod Touch is sleeping, the user can tap the home button twice to bring up touch controls on the screen -- a feature the iPhone currently lacks
- The iPod Touch has a separate Contacts app -- it's built into the Phone application on the iPhone
- The iPod Touch has separate Video and Music apps, whereas the iPhone has a single "iPod" app that contains these functions
- There is apparently (and obviously) no microphone on the iPod Touch, though it will be interesting to see if such audio-in capabilities could be enabled via a third-party device.
- The iPod touch's headphone jack is on the bottom of the device
- The iPod touch lacks a built-in external speaker
- The iPod touch's screen appears to be of a slightly higher quality than the iPhone, with 163 pixels per inch to the iPhone's 160 pixels per inch.

















DIFFERENCES IN 2010
- There is no phone availability on the iPod Touch.

















So there it goes, by now the only difference between iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch is the carrier contract.


(*First differences made by Ben Wilson on his article on cnet.com)

New Apple Store (Barcelona)

The first time I heart that Apple was considering to have a new Apple Store I thought: "Great... Yes... In U.S., right?". And I didn't put so much attention. Two months after that rumour, I read an article that certainly Apple was planning a new Apple Store. So rumour confirmed. Then, the question was: Where? When I read "Spain" I just went nuts! I could not believe that.
However, the best part was still to arrive. Different news were to come.
First, we knew the country, but not the city. As I live in Barcelona I wished it'd be in Barcelona or a city nearby. Therefore, the next new was there: "Apple is considering Madrid and Barcelona to introduce an Apple Store". No way! Barcelona was mean to be... And finally it was!
Secondly, we knew the city, but not the place. I was thrilled to have an Apple Store in Passeig de Gràcia. This is the best place to have an Apple Store! Passeig the Gràcia is like Regent's Street in London, and there there is the most beautiful Apple Store I ever seen (and I have seen a few). Apple thought that too. But no. Apple's idea was tangled by a net of I-don't-know-who's-interest-was to bet the offer of a selling place in there. Mango got it for an-amount-of-money-that-only-a-few-know. That was absolutely insane! That was, I mean, NO! Well then, Apple need some place that actually could satisfy its kind of store. So, Centre Comercial La Maquinista. I was there on the opening day.

I think that it is an absolutely-wrong-first-feet of Apple in Barcelona that I hope some day we could see en Apple Store in Passeig de Gràcia. Please?

Ads

When you enter in a site, wherever it is, you find, as always, ads. Usually you find ads related to the site you are visiting, right? Ok. However, when you are in a site and you think "what on earth is that ad taking place here", that moment is when I get my thoughts for that post.

For starting, ads are very useful. They can give you the path to enter in other sites that are related to, and maybe you will be redirected in sumplace that it is interesting for you. Great! That is what they pretend to be. However, there are lots of them that are, actually, really (really) useless. I don't mean with "useless", simply lack of use, I mean lack of use to the interest of the person visiting the site. Oh, come on! Don't you think that a medical ad that you see in a page of a musician isn't correct in there? There will be fine if it is a medical or health care site.

However, there are sometimes that even when they relate the site to an ad makes the perfect companion but not very close to it. It is like an animal care site had a company which sells leather and fur clothes. Ops! That's not good at all!
This video is an example on YouTube from kalebnation.



Oh! the very good ones are those ads that appear everyplace with "Wanna create a baby? Hey it's free!". What the buck? Oh, oh! And those that gives you the opportunity to sort dress like a grown up (or that is what I thought I have understood). And what about those that can tell ya the future or the past!! I don't know what to think...

Anyway... here there are a few ads.

Fashion

It seems that the orange is really in fashion for movie wallpapers... or more than a few movies had employed the same graphic designer. Look at that picture, don't you think is really used black and orange with same shape design?

This was shoot in the Apple iTunes web page.

I believe in the variety of creation. It is true that maybe fashion is a creation itself. But think, the creation over one creation is just the same creation of the creation. Ok. "I'm confused" you may say. But, no, you don't have to. I explain meself.

There are two types of creation: the new creation, which is the first idea that could anyone have. And second, there is the follower creator. You know, it is like discovery and evolution. Who is more important, the creator of something or the one who has discovered the thing to make the something.

So, my point here is that fashion is a concept made by someone (you call it premier designer) and then there are the followers that have this fashion in mind and then they just complete the items matching the main fashion. Or don't you even stopped to think about that every fashion has this thing we call the 60s, 70s or 80s fashion. Not only clothes but technology, architecture, colours or the way of living!

Ok, so there it goes, you may call it: evolution. And a season fashion has "stuck waves" in a evolution.

mist?

Sometimes I feel that knowing less languages could help the comprehension of the people around me. And by that, I mean I could be less tempted to make confusion and mixture of word meaning.

Some days ago I found a new gum flavor by Orbit. The first time I saw it I laughed a lot or at least it didn't tent me to buy it. If the name of new new flavor in the box have been a little bit tinier, maybe I'd have not been so shocked.

For the ones who speak or know English in the new gum Orbit's flavour means just "foggy senses" or "quite feeling while chewing the gum". Well, for the ones who speak or know a bit of German sure you'll get that funny-tricky-possible-misunderstanding! If not, I'll explain: for German people there's no such thing of speaking with "ugly words". So they try to say things with much more politeness, but meaning the same feeling. In other words, they try to be a bit diplomatic. However, well it has to be admitted that nowadays not everybody really use this way of saying "ugly words". There are still a lot of people who don't care about being correct, they just spread the words as the way they come. They say, language must be natural and sharing what exactly means a person make the social community cleaner to useless and empty words. Nowadays it is not only the case of new German generations but also to any other country (but in a bigger percent).

In any case, what you read in this picture, for German people, mean "Orbit's dung" or "manure". Maybe the only way to not think about it is the lowercase letter. That means that it is not a noun, because in German nouns are written in capital letters. So wherever you want to think you'll be chewing for the time being of the chewing-gum "dung" or a "pleasure quite and relaxing fog" in you mouth.

iOS 5? iPhone 5? Tan pronto?

Aún no hemos sabido cómo saborear el nuevo iPhone 4, que ya hay especulaciones en las nuevas funcionalidades de un posible modelo evolucionado, ¿el iPhone 5? Según la página locuraiphone.net, entre otras, sí. Los cambios se encaminarían en mejoras en tarjetas de gráficos 3D, en la compatibilidad de las redes 4G, videochat en red 3G; o ampliaciones de resolución de la cámara hasta 8Mpx o capacidad del teléfono de 64GB de memoria.

Un site que nos tiene ya aconstumbrados es macrumors, que ya no tenemos que mencionar que hace días se especula que pueda fabricarse en diferentes colores, capacidad para salida de HD, mejora de la batería o fijado el problema de la antena.

Si con todo lo dicho no llega a la satisfacción de un fan-boy/girl, buena solución es la de buscar significados a los silencios o a las informaciones dejadas de dar. En la página pocket-lint.com (inglés) especulan lo no dicho o las palabras limitadas que pronunció Jobs en la conferencia de prensa el 16 de julio. Pretenden buscar la razón de por qué Jobs dijo que sólo se canjearían las Bumper hasta el 30 de septiembre: piensan que habrá un nuevo iPhone 5 para octubre.






En mi opinión, estoy de acuerdo que se vayan hacer unas mejoras en el nuevo iPhone4, porqué en toda tecnología siempre hay algo a mejorar, si así no lo fuera, no existirían las compañías como Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Dell, entre otras... Por lo que respeta a las mejoras de antena, una mayor capacidad de memoria o una cámara con más resolución sí pondría la mano al fuego. No obstante, pienso que Apple no le gusta hacer un pequeño update con un producto nuevo, lo que harán es crear un firmware actualizado para el ya existente iPhone4, y de nuevos productos ya hablaremos dentro de un año.

iTouch?

Nunca he terminado de entender por qué muchos al iPod Touch le llaman iTouch. Ni Apple lo ha calificado así, ni es un producto al que se le pueda excluir de ser iPod.

A mi entender, creo que hay tres causas:

Primera, es un nombre más corto. El acortar los nombres nos viene desde pequeños. Todos crecemos con llamar a las cosas lo más rápido posible: bien pensemos en cómo llamábamos a nuestras mascotas, Lun, Burt, Kar, Broc, Pint, etc... o es que alguien les llamaba Elisidoro o Guillemito? Puede que haya alguien, pero la mayoría no.
Esto mismo pasa con los nombres de personas. Cuando conocíamos a a alguien se presentaba con su nombre real, al tiempo ya le nombrábamos con su diminutivo, si bien esa persona no te lo indicaba antes. Por ejemplo: Ariana -> Ari; Carolina -> Carol; María -> Mary/Mery, Guillermo -> Guille; Nicolás -> Nico, etc...
Así pues, nos cuesta pronunciar todo el nombre, a riesgo que no tengamos su atención rápida o endendimiento fácil de un nombre.

Segunda, la imposición no nos gusta. En el momento que alguien nos impone lo que tenemos que hacer, decir o seguir nos irrita y le damos nuestra personalidad a lo que estamos hablando.

Tercera, ir más allá. Las ganas de enseñar que lo sabemos, en nuestra sociedad, es un peldaño más alto de sofisticación. Muchas veces se ha supravalorado y hemos creído que todo lo que nos precede nos parece obsoleto y hay que modernizarlo. En una palabra, progresismo, o en una frase, evocar la evolución. Una especie de sofisticación arraigada en el futuro.

1000

Hoy se ha revelado que han entrado en el site de The World of Emma's Reality 1000 visitantes ¡y contando!

Hace sólo un año que este site se abrió y no sabía bien cómo empezar, qué tema tratar o en qué idioma escribir. Vistas a un año el layout y su contenido ha cambiado varias veces, y en mi opinión ¡siempre a mejor!

Este site tiene la característica principal que no se sabe qué tema tratará el próximo post, ni cuando se publicará. Bien la causa es por mi tiempo, que no puedo prestarle tanto como en otras tareas; bien por dedicación, sólo en momentos que mi mente tiene iluminación. No obstante creo que de la regularidad de muchos Blogs, éste es la excepción que confirma la regla; no sea por descuido sino por la irregularidad que en todo ser humano nace.

Sin saber a quién o a qué: Gracias por hacerlo posible.