Digital Camera: Samsung Digimax i6 6MP

Warning for Mac users. This camera, despite the advertising on their web-page about this working on OSX, you can
not get the full functionality with Mac.

Mac users should get the i5. The i5 takes the same beautiful pictures, and the same video, but does not have
the PMP extras.

You need 2 FREE softwares for recording Video. One: DivX. You can get this on the Quicktime webpage. Two: Xvid for Mac OSX. You get this at xvidmovies.com/mac/ This will allow you to play all the movies you record on this camera in Quicktime, and bring them into iMovie. They will still be AVIs with a Xvid Codac but you will be able to see them. You will have to Export them as Quicktime to give them to your friends.

I still have not found how to convert your other films to Xvid, so you can play them on the i6, like it's advertised.
at softpedia.com there is the Ultra Quicktime Converter 1.2.2 which says it can convert QuickTime MOV, QT, MP4, M4V files to AVI, DivX, Xvid, MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, DVD(*.VOB) files.

The PMP player is an MP3 Player and Movie Player. They didn't make this iTunes compatible, despite iTunes being one of the Largest download sites in the world. You can only play MP3s. You must create a folder called MP3, and then you can dump all the music you SD card can hold on it. This works just fine.

The movie Part requires a piece of software that they give you on a Disk (only works with PC). This converts the movies into something that can be played on the camera. AVIs with a Xvid Codac.

When I called, and asked why they say it's Mac compatible, they told me the Camera IS, so they can say that. But When the unit is advertised as a PMP, and none of the PMP functions work without a bunch of plugins (if at all), then I feel it's false advertising.

There is a slow delay between pressing the button, and taking the picture. About 1 second, I'd say.

It has an amazing Macro lens. (see the picture I took of a Quarter above).

The low light pictures are better then most of the cameras, I used (except the Casio Exilim), but this camera doesn't have the extending lens that can break in your bag, or refuse to retract.

It's a fantastically great camera. I love the pictures it takes. I have a 2GB card in it, and it works fine. The battery has lasted several days, and is only now missing one bar.

I am not going to return it, but If I had the choice again, I would have bought the i5 for $. It's a lot cheaper, and takes the same great pictures.

Movie: Crank is unstoppable

Crank is one of those films you just have to love. It looks like the people who did House of the Dead worked on it.
It uses so many strange or juvenile clips that it screams "guy Film". From the very beginning when you see the titles that look like a 1980's video game, to the standing around with a hard on jokes, to the cutting off of limbs as easy as they do in Kill Bill. These guys took all the cheesy things guys like and just through them into a film. there is just enough story to keep everything going.

Basically, the film starts off with the killer getting poisoned. Now, he has 1 hour to die, so he's going to spend it trying to get to the guy that poisoned him. The only thing keeping him alive are the things that every guy goes to guy film to see: boobs, fights, crashes, drugs, and chases. A director one said " whenever a film is going South, I put in an explosion, a bare breast, or a chase scene, and it brings the audience back on track." These guys took that and ran with it.
Fun and .... well... fun. Think of MI3 with less story, less budget, and more action.

See it.

-Bradley