iPod nano is the latest addition to my gadget collection. I sold my old iPod 30Gb and bought new, tiny, cute 3G iPod nano Black. Here are some of its unboxing photos.

3G iPod nano is really cute and the software inside is very beautiful and highly polished. It includes cover-flow, search, contacts, calendar and many other old feature like video, podcasts, photos etc.

It also supports rented movies from Apple iTunes store.

A must have for every Apple and Music lover !!!

How to take a panoramic photo?

I thought it would be a rocketscience, but it is not. Panoramic Photography is pretty simple with help of a nice digital camera, tripod, and panoramic stitch software and of course, a computer.

Step 1. You choose a nice view and set up your tripod at center of the view.

Step 2. Take several pictures of the view. You only rotate your camera in horizontal axis.

Step 3. Make sure you have several overlapping points in each two consecutive shots.

Step 4. Transfer your pictures to your computer and use your favorite panoramic stitch software. I used PTMac.

Step 5. There are several types of panoramic pictures (Single row rectangle, cylindrical etc). I chose the simplest. Single row panorama.

Step 6. Tell the software of control points for each 2 overlapping pictures. Choose at least 3 control points per pair.

Step 7.Optimizeand create your panoramic photo.

Step 8. You are done.

Have a look at my first try of Panoramic Photography here. Its 7.6MB in size. Zoom it to full for better viewing experience.

There were big computers, a store room size and then came the PC and the whole world changed. When mobile phone came into world, people predicted that one day the this mobile phone will have the same capabilities that PC have.

Its been a long time we have been watching the mobile phone evolution. It has came a long way. Nokia dominated the handset market world wide. Symbian OS, Palm OS and Windows mobile were the primary softwares installed into these phones. From black and white phone to color phone with camera, BT, IR, FM mobile phone has seen a slow but steady evolution.

There was not much innovation happening in mobile handset/OS until iPhone came into picture. We all know why iPhone is such a great device. But people rarely think about why iPhone is such a great device. Its the Mac OS X. iPhone has Mac OS X as its Operation System. Mac OS X is the world’s most advanced OS, having Unix at its base and great UI, we have Server Grade OS into a phone. And that changes the whole paradigm.

All mobile phone OS makers were struggling hard to bring new great capabilities to a phone. As usual, someone else was making the handset and someone else was making the software. Developing OS is a big thing, and takes years for an OS to mature. In a way mobile industry has matured enough, but a matured OS and Handsets were missing, and iPhone with its OS has filled the Great Gap.

Now with iPhone and Mac OS X at its base platform, you can do almost everything that your PC did. When you have a server grade OS sitting in a phone, only sky remains the limit. And thats why with iPhone, we will see Mobile industry to move to a new version. Lets call it Mobile 2.0

Lets take a glance, what all you can do with iPhone which was very difficult with old mobile OS platforms.

1. True 3D gaming  (iPhone has an accelerometer, its Supports OpenGL and has 3D sound capabilities)
2. Handwriting recognition. (Its has a great touch based UI)
3. Full internationalization. (Its build right into Mac OS X)
4. Enterprise level mail and calendar support (iPhone 2.0 will have all these functionalities)
5. Enterprise level security (iPhone 2.0 will have all these functionalities)
6. Complex applications. (Office Apps and others)
7. Full blown internet, VOIP, and IM (Built in EDGE, WiFI and 3G, Safari web browser, and great SDK to write advanced internet apps like VOIP and IM)
8. High quality media experience. (Pictures, Videos, Music) (remember iPhone is an iPod too)
9. GPS and Traffic watch (iPhone understand wifi and mobile signals and uses it for GPS)

So to speak, with iPhone OS, iPhone is not only an iPod, a Phone, internet communicator, but its more than that. Its transforming into a full blown personal computer, a video camera, a GPS, a personal gaming console and much more.