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It helps when learning to use your new digital camera to also know what some of the more common terms mean. Below you will find fifteen of these common terms listed & defined:

1. Automatic Mode: A setting that sets the focus, exposure and white-balance automatically.
2. Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode: a series of pictures taken one after another at quickly timed intervals with one press of the shutter button.
3. Compression: The process of compacting digital data, images and text by deleting selected information.
4. Digital Zoom: Cropping and magnifying the center part of an image.
5. JPEG: The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras
6. Lag Time: The pause between the time the shutter button is pressed and when the camera actually captures the image
7. LCD: (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a small screen on a digital camera for viewing images.
8. Lens: A circular and transparent glass or plastic piece that has the function of collecting light and focusing it on the sensor to capture the image.
9. Megabyte: (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the amount of information in a file, or how much information can be contained on a Memory Card, Hard Drive or Disk.
10. Pixels: Tiny units of color that make up digital pictures. Pixels also measure digital resolution. One million pixels add up to one mega-pixel.
11. RGB: Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on computers to create all other colors.
12. Resolution: Camera resolution describes the number of pixels used to create the image, which determines the amount of detail a camera can capture. The more pixels a camera has then the more detail it can register and the larger the picture can be printed.
13. Storage Card: The removable storage device which holds images taken with the camera, comparable to film, but much smaller also called a digital camera memory card.
14. Viewfinder: The optical “window” to look through to compose the scene.
15. White Balance: White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for the type of light (daylight, fluorescent, incandescent, etc.) or lighting conditions in the scene so it will look normal to the human eye.

Has the current global economy affected your life? Anyway, now is a good moment as any to tighten one’s belt & do without some of the thing we are used to having or doing. Below are a few ideas to help you save some money. Who knows, things could get worse & you would be thankful then about the money you saved now.

1. Share a car: Do you really need to buy a car when you can just chip-in for gas to work?
2. Share a room: Do you need all the privacy or you can make do with a room mate just like back in the college days?
3. Quit smoking or at least cut down: Anyway, tobacco feels horrible in large doses.
4. Resist sales temptation: Stores holding closing down sales or amazing slashed prices could alter your perception about spending money on unnecessary items.
5. Resist financing offers: The 42” HDTV offer mentions you pay nothing for the first year? Well, the question you should ask yourself is whether your financial situation will be any better after a year?
6. Turn off TV & PC: Switch them off when nobody is using them.
7. Don’t subscribe to cable or internet: Do you really need cable TV or the internet?
8. A gym is not necessary: Why can’t you exercise at home? Buy a workout bench & start improvising.
9. Commuting alternatives: Riding a bike, using the train, or bus is cheaper? How do they stack up when the gas price goes up or down?
10. Tracking expenses: Monitoring your expenses closely is good practice so that you can easily find the problem & fix it.

How is your hearing lately? Since I mentioned about hearing, do you know the name of the device that is used to look into one’s ear? The device is called an otoscope. It looks like a wand with a cone protruding on the side of the head. Otoscopes look a bit like the hearing aids used by old men in the yesteryears. However, an otoscope is not a hearing aid device.

An otoscope is one of the tools that health practitioners use for performing medical check-ups on patients, peering into the ear for any signs of infection. Otoscopes are among the many medical & health related items one can find at AllegroMedical.com. Shopping online is easy at AllegroMedical.com. Currently the site is offering free shipping for purchases over $25.