Przedstawiciel PLAY LUBLIN

Chciałbym bardzo przeprosić wszystkich klientów, którzy w dniu dzisiejszym doświadczyli problemów z dostarczaniem MMSów. Z uwagi na błędy konfiguracyjne, które aktualnie wyjaśniamy, postanowiliśmy wyłączyć tymczasowo korzystanie z usług MMS. Robimy wszystko, żeby sytuacja możliwie szybko wróciła do normy. Aktualizacja: MMSY działają już prawidłowo.

Chciałbym bardzo przeprosić wszystkich klientów, którzy w dniu dzisiejszym doświadczyli problemów z dostarczaniem MMSów. Z uwagi na błędy konfiguracyjne, które aktualnie wyjaśniamy, postanowiliśmy wyłączyć tymczasowo korzystanie z usług MMS. Robimy wszystko, żeby sytuacja możliwie szybko wróciła do normy. Aktualizacja: MMSY działają już prawidłowo.

Muszę się pochwalić. Dziś wziąłem udział w biegu “Biegnij Warszawo”. O dziwo udało mi się bieg zakończyć. O dziwo bo kompletnie nie miałem czasu na trening Czas taki sobie, ale sukces wielki – pokonałem swoje ograniczenia i mimo, że kompletnie w to nie wierzyłem, dałem radę MOTOACTV to sprzęt dla ludzi, którzy chcą [...]

Muszę się pochwalić. Dziś wziąłem udział w biegu “Biegnij Warszawo”. O dziwo udało mi się bieg zakończyć. O dziwo bo kompletnie nie miałem czasu na trening Czas taki sobie, ale sukces wielki – pokonałem swoje ograniczenia i mimo, że kompletnie w to nie wierzyłem, dałem radę MOTOACTV to sprzęt dla ludzi, którzy chcą [...]

Science fiction isn’t all phalanxes of tentacled aliens and star ship battles. In fact, from the creative brains of science-fiction writers and directors have come some of the 21st century’s most important technologies. Engineers, it seems, sometimes need the imaginative spark of the non-scientist to germinate an idea.

Lasers

Take lasers. We use them in DVDs, eye surgery, forensic fingerprinting, printers, hair removal, industrial processes and weapons; they’re a staple of modern science. Einstein wrote about  in 1917, but way back in 1898, science-fiction author HG Wells described a familiar-sounding ‘heat-ray’ in War Of The Worlds. What’s more, in 1925, Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov wrote, in Fatal Eggs, about an intense red light that stimulated growth – long before the first experiments into laser bio-stimulation took place in the late 1960s.

Satellites

Then there’s Arthur C Clarke, science-fiction God, the man behind the film and book, 2001: a Space Odyssey, as well as a stack of other brilliant things, and all-round genius. Back in 1945, Clarke wrote an article for the magazine Wireless World, outlining a new idea – which turned out to be the geostationary communications satellite. So thanks to Clarke, we got long-distance phone calls and satellite television. These days, geostationary satellites allow people in very remote areas access broadband internet.

Tablets

Clarke also, in Space Odyssey (1968), came up with a gadget called a newspad – a flat-panel screen that allowed its users to read Earth’s newspapers from afar. Tablet computer or e-reader? You decide!

Debit cards

Even the humble debit-card has its roots in science-fiction. In 1888, Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward, a novel that described ‘a piece of pasteboard’ that corresponded with the monetary holdings of its owner and was accepted by shop-clerks in lieu of cash.

Smartphones

Finally, smartphones aren’t light-years away from the handheld communicators that used to wow us geeks on Star Trek. These devices certainly inspired mobile phone developers to create clamshell designs like the Nokia 7200. While the locator functions on Star Trek communicators are also very similar to smartphone mapping software we all take for granted. And if this wasn’t proof enough of Star Trek’s influence, in 2009, Nokia actually designed a mobile phone prototype to exactly resemble the communicator. Sadly, for us Trekkies it never made it to market.

Needless to say, there are probably plenty more examples. If you can think of some we’d love to hear about them. In the meantime, we’re going to grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy Blade Runner, happy in the knowledge that not all sci-fi predictions come true.

Image credit: JD Hancock

Science fiction isn’t all phalanxes of tentacled aliens and star ship battles. In fact, from the creative brains of science-fiction writers and directors have come some of the 21st century’s most important technologies. Engineers, it seems, sometimes need the imaginative spark of the non-scientist to germinate an idea.

Lasers

Take lasers. We use them in DVDs, eye surgery, forensic fingerprinting, printers, hair removal, industrial processes and weapons; they’re a staple of modern science. Einstein wrote about  in 1917, but way back in 1898, science-fiction author HG Wells described a familiar-sounding ‘heat-ray’ in War Of The Worlds. What’s more, in 1925, Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov wrote, in Fatal Eggs, about an intense red light that stimulated growth – long before the first experiments into laser bio-stimulation took place in the late 1960s.

Satellites

Then there’s Arthur C Clarke, science-fiction God, the man behind the film and book, 2001: a Space Odyssey, as well as a stack of other brilliant things, and all-round genius. Back in 1945, Clarke wrote an article for the magazine Wireless World, outlining a new idea – which turned out to be the geostationary communications satellite. So thanks to Clarke, we got long-distance phone calls and satellite television. These days, geostationary satellites allow people in very remote areas access broadband internet.

Tablets

Clarke also, in Space Odyssey (1968), came up with a gadget called a newspad – a flat-panel screen that allowed its users to read Earth’s newspapers from afar. Tablet computer or e-reader? You decide!

Debit cards

Even the humble debit-card has its roots in science-fiction. In 1888, Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward, a novel that described ‘a piece of pasteboard’ that corresponded with the monetary holdings of its owner and was accepted by shop-clerks in lieu of cash.

Smartphones

Finally, smartphones aren’t light-years away from the handheld communicators that used to wow us geeks on Star Trek. These devices certainly inspired mobile phone developers to create clamshell designs like the Nokia 7200. While the locator functions on Star Trek communicators are also very similar to smartphone mapping software we all take for granted. And if this wasn’t proof enough of Star Trek’s influence, in 2009, Nokia actually designed a mobile phone prototype to exactly resemble the communicator. Sadly, for us Trekkies it never made it to market.

Needless to say, there are probably plenty more examples. If you can think of some we’d love to hear about them. In the meantime, we’re going to grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy Blade Runner, happy in the knowledge that not all sci-fi predictions come true.

Image credit: JD Hancock

Since camera phones were introduced in early 2000, people now have the opportunity to take as many photos as they desire. But chances are, they often come out a little dark, too light or just out of focus. With a whole raft of camera settings at your disposal, learning how to use them properly will produce much better photos. We’re here to help, with the first in a two part series on how to make the most of your Nokia Lumia camera settings.

An amazing photo starts with one thing – the camera. On your Nokia Lumia, pressing the camera button or selecting Camera from the application list will launch the camera application and transform your screen into a viewfinder to the big wide world.

With the phone in landscape position, pressing the settings icon (the one that looks like a cog) on the bottom right of the screen will give you access to all the settings that are available. And there are lots.

For most of the time, grabbing your phone out of your pocket and just snapping away will produce some great shots, however, when I’m looking for something more, there are always three settings I look to change before all else.

Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

Our first Windows Phone 8 smartphones.

Be a part of it.

Focus mode

When taking a photo of a landscape, a group of people or a meadow, the default mode – Normal – does the job. However, if you need to get in extra close to your subject, like a bee, a flower, or the foam on the top of your caffè latte, for example, you’ll need to set the focus mode to Macro.

This enables you to focus the camera on items that are only centimetres away from the lens of your Nokia Lumia.

As well as capturing as much detail as possible of your subject, it will also give you a bokeh effect at the same time. Bokeh is where your subject is in perfect clarity while the background (or foreground, in some instances – but not with Macro mode) fades away into a blur. This focuses the eye on what’s important – the subject.

ISO

When you’re taking a photo late in the evening, or even at night, you might consider changing the ISO settings to get a better shot. The automatic setting usually gives you the best shot, but it’s always good to keep-in-mind that these settings can be changed to give you the exact shot you want.

Changing the ISO changes the camera’s sensitivity to light and setting it up high is best for darker scenarios to get maximum light to the sensor. However, this adds more ‘noise’ to the photo, but does leave a lighter, brighter image.

By lowering the ISO setting you’re reducing the light that the camera sensor receives, leaving a slightly darker, but a finer, less grainy photo.

Exposure Value

You’d be forgiven for thinking that changing the Exposure would give the same effect as changing the ISO settings – I used to think that. But, although they both control light coming into the lens, the end result is quite different.

Changing this exposure setting leaves the shutter of the camera open for longer, or shorter, depending on the setting. Choosing yourself when the shutter should close means you’re able to decide what the photo looks like. If you want an action shot, where moving objects leave a blur behind them, you’ll want to set the exposure levels high. But if you want to capture something with very little movement, you should set the exposure as low as possible.

This not only creates motion blur it also lets more light to get into the camera, because you’re controlling how long the shutter is open.

I increased the exposure level this summer when celebrating The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The miserable weather led to some disappointing photos to say the least, so, cranking up the exposure level brightened up the photo, and my day.

Here’s a cool photo I took almost a year ago at a London Underground train station. By setting the exposure level high, it was easy to create an artistic photo with motion blur.

Besides my three most used settings, there are loads more on-board tools to help you perfect your photos, and we’ll go through those next week.

Avid readers of these pages (specifically Make Me Smile Monday), will have seen this pint-sized entrepreneur before. He’s Caine, and his arcade made from cardboard boxes has inspired something incredible.

It’s the Global Cardboard Challenge – make something from cardboard and share it with the world. We decided to partner with the Cardboard Challenge and open it out to you, our readers, as a competition.

So here’s the deal:

Make your own Nokia mobile phone from cardboard (like the one pictured above)

or

Make a ‘photograph’ from cardboard. Recreate the best photo you ever took on your Nokia (a flower, a building, your cat) using cardboard (like the one pictured below).

Best one (well, two) will win a real phone. We have one Nokia Lumia 900 and on Nokia 808 PureView up for grabs.

It’s that simple.

We made a cardboard Lumia to provide inspiration, can you do better?

Full terms and conditions (no photoshopping! [We were allowed]

Send us your efforts in a comment with a pic, or on Twitter using the #NokiaCardboardChallenge hashtag and we’ll be announcing the winner in the next couple of weeks.

Avid readers of these pages (specifically Make Me Smile Monday), will have seen this pint-sized entrepreneur before. He’s Caine, and his arcade made from cardboard boxes has inspired something incredible.

It’s the Global Cardboard Challenge – make something from cardboard and share it with the world. We decided to partner with the Cardboard Challenge and open it out to you, our readers, as a competition.

So here’s the deal:

Make your own Nokia mobile phone from cardboard (like the one pictured above)

or

Make a ‘photograph’ from cardboard. Recreate the best photo you ever took on your Nokia (a flower, a building, your cat) using cardboard (like the one pictured below).

Best one (well, two) will win a real phone. We have one Nokia Lumia 900 and on Nokia 808 PureView up for grabs.

It’s that simple.

We made a cardboard Lumia to provide inspiration, can you do better?

Full terms and conditions (no photoshopping! [We were allowed]

Send us your efforts in a comment with a pic, or on Twitter using the #NokiaCardboardChallenge hashtag and we’ll be announcing the winner in the next couple of weeks.

Since camera phones were introduced in early 2000, people now have the opportunity to take as many photos as they desire. But chances are, they often come out a little dark, too light or just out of focus. With a whole raft of camera settings at your disposal, learning how to use them properly will produce much better photos. We’re here to help, with the first in a two part series on how to make the most of your Nokia Lumia camera settings.

An amazing photo starts with one thing – the camera. On your Nokia Lumia, pressing the camera button or selecting Camera from the application list will launch the camera application and transform your screen into a viewfinder to the big wide world.

With the phone in landscape position, pressing the settings icon (the one that looks like a cog) on the bottom right of the screen will give you access to all the settings that are available. And there are lots.

For most of the time, grabbing your phone out of your pocket and just snapping away will produce some great shots, however, when I’m looking for something more, there are always three settings I look to change before all else.

Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

Our first Windows Phone 8 smartphones.

Be a part of it.

Focus mode

When taking a photo of a landscape, a group of people or a meadow, the default mode – Normal – does the job. However, if you need to get in extra close to your subject, like a bee, a flower, or the foam on the top of your caffè latte, for example, you’ll need to set the focus mode to Macro.

This enables you to focus the camera on items that are only centimetres away from the lens of your Nokia Lumia.

As well as capturing as much detail as possible of your subject, it will also give you a bokeh effect at the same time. Bokeh is where your subject is in perfect clarity while the background (or foreground, in some instances – but not with Macro mode) fades away into a blur. This focuses the eye on what’s important – the subject.

ISO

When you’re taking a photo late in the evening, or even at night, you might consider changing the ISO settings to get a better shot. The automatic setting usually gives you the best shot, but it’s always good to keep-in-mind that these settings can be changed to give you the exact shot you want.

Changing the ISO changes the camera’s sensitivity to light and setting it up high is best for darker scenarios to get maximum light to the sensor. However, this adds more ‘noise’ to the photo, but does leave a lighter, brighter image.

By lowering the ISO setting you’re reducing the light that the camera sensor receives, leaving a slightly darker, but a finer, less grainy photo.

Exposure Value

You’d be forgiven for thinking that changing the Exposure would give the same effect as changing the ISO settings – I used to think that. But, although they both control light coming into the lens, the end result is quite different.

Changing this exposure setting leaves the shutter of the camera open for longer, or shorter, depending on the setting. Choosing yourself when the shutter should close means you’re able to decide what the photo looks like. If you want an action shot, where moving objects leave a blur behind them, you’ll want to set the exposure levels high. But if you want to capture something with very little movement, you should set the exposure as low as possible.

This not only creates motion blur it also lets more light to get into the camera, because you’re controlling how long the shutter is open.

I increased the exposure level this summer when celebrating The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The miserable weather led to some disappointing photos to say the least, so, cranking up the exposure level brightened up the photo, and my day.

Here’s a cool photo I took almost a year ago at a London Underground train station. By setting the exposure level high, it was easy to create an artistic photo with motion blur.

Besides my three most used settings, there are loads more on-board tools to help you perfect your photos, and we’ll go through those next week.