Dimsum

Dim sum (literally meaning "touch the heart") is the name for a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes served alongside Chinese tea. It is usually served in the mornings until noon time at Chinese restaurants and at specialty dim sum eateries where typical dishes are available throughout the day. Dishes come in small portions and may include meat, seafood, and vegetables, as well as desserts and fruit. The items are usually served in a small steamer basket or on a small plate. Yum cha (literally "tea drinking") is the term used to describe the dining session, especially in contemporary Cantonese. Chinese families in particular typically like to gather at Chinese restaurants for dim sum on special occasions such as Mother’s Day or Chinese New Year.

History

Travellers on the ancient Silk Road needed a place to take a nap, so teahouses were established along the roadside. Rural farmers, exhausted after working hard in the fields, would also go to teahouses for a relaxing afternoon of tea. At first, it was considered inappropriate to combine tea with food, because people believed it would lead to excessive weight gain. People later discovered that tea can aid in digestion, so teahouse owners began adding various snacks and the tradition of dim sum evolved.^{[citation needed]}

In Hong Kong, and most cities and towns in Guangdong province, many Chinese restaurants start serving as early as five in the morning. It is a tradition for the elderly to gather to eat dim sum after morning exercises, often enjoying the morning newspapers. For many southerners in China, yum cha is treated as a weekend family day. Consistent with this tradition, dim sum restaurants typically only serve dim sum until the afternoon (right around the time of a traditional Western 3 o'clock coffee break); other kinds of Cantonese cuisine are served in the evening. Nowadays, various dim sum items are sold as take-out for students and office workers on the go.

While dim sum (touch the heart, as in not a main meal, only a snack , and therefore is only meant to touch the heart) remains a staple of Chinese culinary culture, especially in Hong Kong. Health officials have recently criticized the high amount of saturated fat and sodium in some dim sum dishes, warning that steamed dim sum should not automatically be assumed to be healthy.^[1] Health officials recommend balancing fatty dishes with boiled vegetables, minus sauce.

Drinking Tea

The drinking of tea is as important to dim sum as the food. A popular tea which is said to aid in digestion is bolay (pu erh), which is a strong, fermented tea. Chrysanthemum, oolong and green tea can be served as well.

It is customary to pour tea for others during dim sum before filling one's own cup. A custom unique to the Cantonese is to thank the person pouring the tea by tapping the bent index and middle fingers together on the table, which symbolises 'bowing' to them.

This is said to be analogous to the ritual of bowing to someone in appreciation. The origin of this gesture is described anecdotally: an unidentified Emperor went to yum cha with his friends, outside the palace; not wanting to attract attention to himself, the Emperor was disguised. While at yum cha, the Emperor poured his companion some tea, which was a great honour. The companion, not wanting to give away the Emperor's identity in public by bowing, instead tapped his index and middle finger on the table as sign of appreciation.

Given the number of times tea is poured in a meal, the tapping is a timesaver in loud restaurants or lively company, as an individual being served might be speaking to someone else or have food in their mouth.

Cuisine

Traditional dim sum includes various types of steamed buns such as cha siu baau, dumplings and rice noodle rolls (cheong fun), which contain a range of ingredients, including beef, chicken, pork, prawns and vegetarian options. Many dim sum restaurants also offer plates of steamed green vegetables, roasted meats, congee porridge and other soups. Dessert dim sum is also available and many places offer the customary egg tart. Having a meal in a Chinese teahouse or a dim sum restaurant is known as yum cha (飲茶), literally "drinking tea", as tea is typically served with dim sum.

Dim sum can be cooked by steaming and frying, among other methods. The serving sizes are usually small and normally served as three or four pieces in one dish. It is customary to order family style, sharing dishes among all members of the dining party. Because of the small portions, people can try a wide variety of food.

Dim sum dishes can be ordered from a menu or sometimes the food is wheeled around on a trolley by servers. Traditionally, the cost of the meal is calculated based on the number, size, and sometimes color of the dishes left on the patron's table (more below). Some modern dim sum restaurants record the dishes on a bill at the table. Not only is this tidier, it also prevents patrons from cheating by concealing or stealing the plates. Servers in some restaurants use distinct stamps so that sales statistics for each server can be recorded.

Dishes

Dim sum restaurants have a wide variety of dishes, usually several dozen. Among the standard fare of dim sum are the following:

Main

• Gow (餃, Dumpling; 餃子 gau zi, Gow gee): Gow is a standard in most teahouses. They are made of ingredients wrapped in a translucent rice flour or wheat starch skin, and are different from jiaozi found in other parts of China. Though common, steamed rice-flour skins are quite difficult to make. Thus, it is a good demonstration of the chef's artistry to make these translucent dumplings. There are also dumplings with vegetarian ingredients, such as tofu and pickled cabbage.
  • Shrimp Dumpling (蝦餃 har gau): A delicate steamed dumpling with whole or chopped-up shrimp filling and thin wheat starch skin. Recipe at Roseskitchenette
  • Chiu-chao style dumplings (潮州粉果 chiu-chau fun guo): A dumpling said to have originated from the Chaozhou prefecture of Guangdong province, it contains peanuts, garlic, chives, pork, dried shrimp, Chinese mushrooms in a thick dumpling wrapper made from glutinous rice flour or Tang flour. It is usually served with a small dish of chili oil.
  • Potsticker (鍋貼, wor tip) Northern Chinese style of dumpling (steamed and then pan-fried jiaozi), usually with meat and cabbage filling. Note that although potstickers are sometimes served in dim sum restaurants, they are not considered traditional Cantonese dim sum.
  • Shaomai (燒賣 siu mai): Small steamed dumplings with pork inside a thin wheat flour wrapper. Usually topped off with crab roe and mushroom.
  • Haam Sui Gaau(鹹水餃, salt-water (i.e. savoury) stuffed-dumpling, alternatively 鹹水角 (haam Sui Gok): deep fried oval-shaped dumpling made with rice-flour and filled with pork and chopped vegetables. The rice-flour surrounding is sweet and sticky, while the inside is slightly salty.
• Bau (包 bau): Baked or steamed, these fluffy buns are filled with different meats and vegetables.
  • Char siu baau (叉燒包, char siu baau): the most popular bun with a Cantonese barbecued pork filling. It can be either steamed to be fluffy and white or baked with a light sugar glaze to produce a smooth golden-brown crust.
  • Shanghai steamed buns (上海小籠包 seong hoi siu lung bau): These dumplings are filled with meat or seafood and are famous for their flavor and rich broth inside. These dumplings are originally Shanghainese so they are not considered traditional Cantonese dim sum.
• Rice noodle rolls or cheong fun (腸粉 cheong fun): These are wide rice noodles that are steamed and then rolled. They are often filled with different types of meats or vegetables inside but can be served without any filling. Rice noodle rolls are fried after they are steamed and then sprinkled with sesame seeds. Popular fillings include beef, dough fritter, shrimp, and barbecued pork. Often topped with a sweetened soy sauce.
• Phoenix talons (鳳爪 fung zao): These are chicken feet, deep fried, boiled, marinated in a black bean sauce and then steamed. This results in a texture that is light and fluffy (due to the frying), while moist and tender. Fung zau are typically dark red in color. One may also sometimes find plain steamed chicken feet served with a vinegar dipping sauce. This version is known as "White Cloud Phoenix Talons" (白雲鳳爪, bak wun fung jau)
• Steamed meatball (牛肉球 ngau4 juk6 kau4): Finely-ground beef is shaped into balls and then steamed with preserved orange peel and served on top of a thin bean-curd skin.
• Spare ribs: In the west, it is mostly known as spare ribs collectively. In the east, it is Char siu when roasted red, or (排骨 paai4 gwat1, páigǔ) when roasted black.
• Lotus leaf rice (糯米雞 lou mai gai): Glutinous rice is wrapped in a lotus leaf into a triangular or rectangular shape. It contains egg yolk, dried scallop, mushroom, water chestnut and meat (usually pork and chicken). These ingredients are steamed with the rice and although the leaf is not eaten, its flavour is infused during the steaming. Lo mai gai is a kind of rice dumpling. A similar but lighter variant is known as "Pearl Chicken" (珍珠雞 jan jyu gai).
• Congee (粥 juk1): Rice porridge served with different savory items. The porridge one will see most often is "Duck Egg and Pork Porridge" (皮蛋瘦肉粥 "pei daan sau ruk juk")
• Sou (酥 sou): A type of flaky pastry. Char siu is one of the most common ingredient used in dim sum style sou. Another common pastry seen in restaurants are called "Salty Pastry" (鹹水角 "haam sui gok") which is made with flour and seasoned pork.
• Taro dumpling (芋角 wu gok): This is made with mashed taro, stuffed with diced shiitake mushrooms, shrimp and pork, deep-fried in crispy batter.
• Crispy fried squid (魷魚鬚 yau yu sou): Similar to fried calamari, the battered squid is deep-fried and normally served with a sweet and sour dip. One may also get a variation of this dish prepared with a salt and pepper mix. In some dim sum restaurants, octopus is used instead of squid.
• Rolls (捲)
  • Spring roll (春捲 cheun gyun): a roll consisting of various types of vegetables — such as sliced carrot, cabbage, mushroom and wood ear fungus — and sometimes meat are rolled inside a thin flour skin and deep fried.
  • Tofu skin roll (腐皮捲 fu pei guen): a roll made of Tofu skin
• Cakes (糕)
  • Turnip cake (蘿蔔糕 lo bak go): cakes are made from mashed daikon radish mixed with bits of dried shrimp and pork sausage that are steamed and then cut into slices and pan-fried.
  • Taro cake (芋頭糕): cakes made of taro.
  • Water chestnut cake (馬蹄糕 maa tai gow): cakes made of water chestnut. It is mostly see-thru and clear. Some restaurants also serve a variation of water chestnut cake made with bamboo juice.
• Chien chang go (千層糕 cin cang gou): "Thousand-layer cake", a dim sum dessert made up of many layers of sweet egg dough.

Sweets

• Egg tart (蛋撻 dan tat): composed of a base made from either a flaky puff pastry type dough or a type of non-flaky cookie dough with an egg custard filling, which is then baked. Some high class restaurants put bird's nest on top of the custard. In other places egg tarts can be made of a crust and a filling of egg whites and some where it is a crust with egg yolks. Some egg tarts now have flavors such as taro, coffee, and other flavors. There are also different kinds of crust. There is also a flaky crisp outer crust with layers and layers of crunchy crumbs.
• Jin deui or Matuan (煎堆 or 麻糰): Especially popular at Chinese New Year, a chewy dough filled with red bean paste, rolled in sesame seeds, and deep fried.
• Dou fu fa (豆腐花): A dessert consisting of silky tofu served with a sweet ginger-flavored syrup.
• Mango pudding (芒果布甸 mong guo bo din): A sweet, rich mango-flavoured pudding usually with large chunks of fresh mango; often served with a topping of evaporated milk.
• Sweet cream buns (奶皇包 naai5 wong4 baau1): Steamed buns with milk custard filling.
• Malay Steamed Sponge Cake (馬拉糕 ma5 lai1 gou1): A very soft steamed sponge cake flavoured with molasses.
• Longan Tofu: almond-flavoured tofu served with longans, usually cold.

Facebook Story

Today, nearly everyone joined friendster, must be joined facebook too, and you know who is found site of facebook ? Here a story :

“I'm just lucky to be alive." Mark Zuckerberg, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of social-networking site Facebook, is talking about the time he came face-to-face with the barrel of a gun. It was the spring of 2005, and he was driving from Palo Alto to Berkeley.

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?

Just a few hours earlier, he had signed documents that secured a heady $12.7 million in venture capital to finance his fledgling business. It was a coming-of-age moment, and he was on his way to celebrate with friends in the East Bay. But things turned weird when he pulled off the road for gas. As Zuckerberg got out of the car to fill the tank, a man appeared from the shadows, waving a gun and ranting. "He didn't say what he wanted," Zuckerberg says. "I figured he was on drugs." Keeping his eyes down, Zuckerberg said nothing, got back into his car, and drove off, unscathed.

Today, it is an episode that he talks about only reluctantly. (A former employee spilled the beans.) But it fits the road he has taken--an adventure with unexpected, sometimes harrowing, moments that has turned out better than anyone might have predicted.

Zuckerberg's life so far is like a movie script. A supersmart kid invents a tech phenomenon while attending an Ivy League school--let's say, Harvard--and launches it to rave reviews. Big shots circle his dorm to make his acquaintance; he drops out of college to grow his baby and Change The World As We Know It. Just three years in, what started as a networking site for college students has become a go-to tool for 19 million registered users, including employees of government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. More than half of the users visit every day. When a poorly explained new feature brought howls of protests from users--some 700,000--the media old and new jumped to cover the backlash. But Facebook emerged stronger than ever. According to comScore Media Metrix, which tracks Web activity, it is now the sixth most-trafficked site in the United States--1% of all Internet time is spent on Facebook.

ComScore also rates it the number-one photo-sharing site on the Web, with 6 million pictures uploaded daily. And it is starting to compete with Google and other tech titans as a destination for top young engineering talent in Silicon Valley. Debra Aho Williamson, a senior analyst at eMarketer, says it is on track to bring in $100 million in revenue this year--serious money indeed.

Yet there is an undercurrent of controversy about whether Mark Zuckerberg is making the right decisions about the juggernaut he has created. Late last year, a blog called TechCrunch posted documents said to be a part of an internal valuation of Facebook by Yahoo. The documents projected that Facebook would generate $969 million in revenue, with 48 million users, by 2010. The New York Times and others reported that Yahoo had made a $1 billion offer to buy Facebook--and Zuckerberg and his partners had turned it down. This followed an earlier rumor of a $750 million offer from Viacom. Yahoo, Viacom, and Facebook would not comment on the deal talk (and they still won't). But Silicon Valley has been abuzz ever since.

"It's all been very interesting," deadpans Zuckerberg, sitting in a conference room in Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters. He looks every bit the geek in his zippered brown sweatshirt, baggy khakis, and Adidas sandals. He came into the room eating breakfast cereal from a paper bowl with a plastic spoon. He still lives in a rented apartment, with a mattress on the floor and only two chairs and a table for furniture. ("I cooked dinner for a girlfriend once," he admits at one point. "It didn't work well.") He walks or bikes to the office every day.

Zuckerberg's college-kid style reinforces the doubts of those who see the decision to keep Facebook independent as a lapse in judgment. In less than two years, the two reigning Web 2.0 titans have sold out to major corporations: MySpace accepted $580 million to join News Corp., and YouTube took $1.5 billion from Google. Surely any smart entrepreneur would jump at a chance to piggyback on those deals.

Looming over the Facebook talk is the specter of Friendster, the first significant social-networking site. It reportedly turned down a chance to sell out to Google in 2002 for $30 million, which if paid in stock, would be worth about $1 billion today. Now Friendster is struggling in the Web-o-sphere, having been swiftly eclipsed by the next generation of sites. The same thing could happen to Facebook. New social-networking sites are popping up every day. Cisco bought Five Across, which sells a software platform for social networking to corporate clients. Microsoft is beta-testing a site named Wallop. Even Reuters is planning to launch its own online face book, targeting fund managers and traders.

So is Zuckerberg being greedy--holding out for a bigger money buyout? If so, will that come back to haunt him? If not, what exactly is his game plan?

Zuckerberg's answer is that he's playing a different kind of game. "I'm here to build something for the long term," he says. "Anything else is a distraction." He and his compatriots at the helm of the company--cofounder and VP of engineering Dustin Moskovitz, 22, his roommate at Harvard, and chief technology officer Adam D'Angelo, 23, whom he met in prep school--are true believers. Their faith: that the openness, collaboration, and sharing of information epitomized by social networking can make the world work better. You might think they were naive, except that they're so damn smart and have succeeded in a way most people never do. From a ragtag operation run out of sublet crash pads in Palo Alto, they now have two buildings (soon to be three) of cool gray offices and employ 200 people who enjoy competitive salaries and grown-up benefit packages--not to mention three catered meals a day with free laundry and dry cleaning thrown in. And they continue to crank out improvements to a Web site that is in every meaningful way a technological marvel.

Right now, the folks who fronted Zuckerberg that $12.7 million back in the spring of 2005 and the other venture investors whose money and connections have helped juice Facebook's growth describe themselves as content. After all, since news of the Yahoo deal surfaced, the user base has continued to boom, arguably increasing Facebook's value. But when those money guys start agitating to realize a gain on their investment, can a sale--or more likely an IPO--be far behind?

"What most people think when they hear the word 'hacker' is breaking into things."

Zuckerberg admits to being a hacker--but only if he's sure you understand that the word means something different to him. To him, hacker culture is about using shared effort and knowledge to make something bigger, better, and faster than an individual can do alone. "There's an intense focus on openness, sharing information, as both an ideal and a practical strategy to get things done," he explains. He has even instituted what he calls "hackathons" at Facebook--what others might call brainstorming sessions for engineers.

But it was old-fashioned breaking-and-entering hacking that spawned Facebook--and Zuckerberg was the culprit. Zuckerberg grew up in the well-to-do New York suburb of Dobbs Ferry, the second of four kids and the only son of a dentist (he has no cavities) and a psychiatrist (insert your own mental-health joke here). He began messing around with computers early on, teaching himself how to program. As a high school senior, at Phillips Exeter Academy, he and D'Angelo built a plug-in for the MP3 player Winamp that would learn your music listening habits, then create a playlist to meet your taste. They posted it as a free download and major companies, including AOL and Microsoft, came calling. "It was basically, like, 'You can come work for us, and, oh, we'll also take this thing that you made,'" Zuckerberg recalls. The two decided to go to college instead, D'Angelo to Caltech and Zuckerberg to Harvard.

"I'm here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction. "
-Mark Zuckerberg

That's where the hacking episode occurred. Harvard didn't offer a student directory with photos and basic information, known at most schools as a face book. Zuckerberg wanted to build an online version for Harvard, but the school "kept on saying that there were all these reasons why they couldn't aggregate this information," he says. "I just wanted to show that it could be done." So one night early in his sophomore year, he hacked into Harvard's student records. He then threw up a basic site called Facemash, which randomly paired photos of undergraduates and invited visitors to determine which one was "hotter" (not unlike the Web site Hot or Not). Four hours, 450 visitors, and 22,000 photo views later, Harvard yanked Zuckerberg's Internet connection. After a dressing-down from the administration and an uproar on campus chronicled by The Harvard Crimson, Zuckerberg politely apologized to his fellow students. But he remained convinced he'd done the right thing: "I thought that the information should be available." (Harvard declined to comment on the episode.)

source : Ellen McGirt

Tepung Tang Mien

Tang Mien adalah memang kanji yang dalam istilah lainnya adalah starch. Starch adalah jenis karbohidrat kompleks yang tidak mudah larut. Starch bisa terbuat dari, biji2an, umbi akar, buah, batang pohon dan biji2 dari bunga.

Tang mien ini berbeda dengan kanji yang umumnya kita kenal. Yang umum dikenal dan banyak dijual dipasar adalah kanji yang berasal dari singkong dikenal dengan tapioka atau cassava starch. Tang mien ini kanji yang berasal dari gandum, Gandum selain dibuat tepung, kita kenal terigu, karbohidrat dari gandum ini dijadikan starch yang kemudian dikenal dengan nama tang mien/wheat starch.

Starch lainnya yang sudah cukup dikenal adalah : corn starch dikenal maizena; cassava starch = tapioca; potato starch, sp starch/sweetpotato (starch dari ubi jalar), arrowroot starch dari arrowroot/garut (larut, irut, jalarut, arut), mungbean starch, starch dari kacang hijau, sago starch = dari sagu..dll

Terkadang pengertian starch/kanji, rancu dengan tepung/flour. Karena dari semua bahan2 diatas, selain dibuat kanji bisa juga dijadikan tepung. Walaupun keduanya memang dalam bentuk serbuk. Perbedaan starch dan flour, starch lebih kepada unsur karbohidratnya saja, flour secara keseluruhan, protein dan karbohidrat.

Secara umum kanji warnanya putih, sepintas kanji sagu, kanji tapioka, kanji jagung, kanji gandum semua sama, baik dari warna, kehalusan tepungnya. Semua jenis kanji kalau dipanaskan akan menghasilkan adonan yang transparan, dan semuanya bisa dijadikan pengental untuk sauce. Yang membedakan dari semua jenis kanji tersebut adalah kepekaannya terhadap proses pemanasan dan air. Contoh kanji garut, bagus untuk cookies, tapi untuk pengental atau pudding sebaiknya tidak dimasak dengan proses yg lama dan panas yang tinggi. Sifat transparannya akan hilang setelah kena panas dalam waktu yang lama.

Jadi walaupun dalam penampilan sama antar kanji tapioka dan kanji gandum (tang mien), untuk resep2 tertentu keduanya belum tentu bisa saling menggantikan, contohnya dalam pembuatan dimsum (hakau), tang mien merupakan bahan utamanya. Tang mien dapat dibeli di tk bahan makanan dan kue.

Mooncake ice cream

Ingredients:

90 gm. fried glutinous rice flour (Kao fen)
10 gm. tang mien flour
30 gm. shortening
40 gm. icing sugar
200 gm. ice-cream soda or 7-up
little pandan, pink, lemon yellow colouring

Filling:

600 gm. lotus paste
30 gm. melon seeds

Method:

(1) Sift the glutinous rice flour and wheat starch into a mould.
(2) Add in icing sugar and shortening and mix till thoroughly mixed.
(3) Pour in ice-cream soda and mix into a soft pliable dough.
(4) Divide dough into 4 portions. Add colouring to each portion, leaving one portion white.
(5) Place each dough between plastic sheets and roll into a rectangular flat piece of the same size. Stack the dough on top of one another, then roll into a swiss roll.
(6) Cut into 6 equal pieces. Divide the lotus paste fillings into 6 portions.
(7) Roll the spiral part into a flat piece and wrap with lotus paste filling. Press into a mooncake mould then knock out.
(8) Chill before serving.


credit to : aunt Yochana

De Vries building

de Vries Building shop located in Grote Postweg (Jln Asia Afrika). Shop building that was built in 1895 with the architectural style of oud Indisch Stijl (classic style Indies), have poles in the fields of. Along with the development of the city of Bandung and the art of architecture, shop De Vries bureau restored by architect Edward Cuypers Hulswitt in the year 1909.


Building a new shop classic European-style architecture with towers in the north east corner of the building. The building is still there until now and become a characteristic environment "Asia africa street and Braga street branch".

Villa Isola

In North Bandung, Jalan Setiabudhi way to Lembang, there is a building will make you look around , there is an unique 'building. The existence of the complex Indonesia Education University (UPI). It was called Villa Isola, built in 1932 from the architects CP Wolff Schoemaker.
If you stay at this vill or building, you can see a view of South of Bandung until Mt. Tangkuban Perahu at North. This villa firt of all owned by D.W. Berrety, a tourist from Italy. Four years after construction, the management of Villa Isola fell to Fr. J. A. Van Es, who was the manager of Savoy Homan.

Vila Isola then being so most exclusive health BelandaTahun Indies in 1954, the building was purchased for Rp 1.5 million by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indanesia and make it to Higher Education Teachers Bandung was IKIP, Isola-style building that this art-deco similar with some other building on Sultan Agung Street and Dago Street.

Tunnel mystery from heritage building in Bandung

Lately some of the mass media told about many historical building in the city being down, One by one old building in the city of Bandung will be dissapear, start with Furniture Shop Kero at Jln. No Braga. 67 is evidence of the economic power that is capable of destroying historical records the city of Bandung. Some other classic buildings that beautify the city of Bandung has been for decades, now also threatened the everlasting.

Old building is not only prominent in terms of aesthetic and historical. Some buildings also have a mystery that not many people know. Gedung Merdeka, one of them. Building art deco-style architecture built in the Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker in 1921 it is one of the historic buildings in the city of Bandung which is still standing upright in Jln. Asia Afrika No.. 65. Gedung Merdeka is a silent witness uni nations of Asia and Africa against colonialism.

At the age of more than a century, this building still save a lot of stories. From the tunnel still has a lot of mystery, and perhaps its seem that underground rooms also connect with the Gedung Merdeka other old buildings.


Entrance to the crypt at Gedung Merdeka is accessible from the building edge, precisely from the Jln. Cikapundung East. The entrance of the room beneath the ground in front of the building that used to function as a Regional Library of West Java. If not carefully, the entrance to the crypt will not be visible. However, if observed, decreased lane about one meter high and about two meters.

The front of the room-sized 3 x 5 meters in the crypt that now work as a motorcycle parking management staff and the Museum Building Merdeka Asia Africa conference (KAA). Right in front of a motorcycle parking space that will be visible from the door of iron, painted yellow one meter width. There are two doors in the room made by iron and lead at the Jln. Cikapundung East. However, the door has been closed by the curb side of the Gedung Merdeka.

Desmon Andrian Satria (31), a publication and promotion of staff KAA Museum in regard to the doors to the room down the land. According to him, was a two-door entrance at the dancers on stage would debut Gedung Merdeka.

"They say, the dancers dress up in the building that is now so Martial Nations Office Front (FBB), front of Gedung Merdeka. Prink After, they go to Gedung Merdeka through space under the door of the land. Because of the crypt there is a small tunnel directly to the stage , "said Desmon. Crypt is located right in the bottom of the VIP room VIII Gedung Merdeka.

The former prison

More to enter the crypt, there are lot of rounded window like windows at submarine. They said, after working as a waiting room before the dancers ascend the stage, this crypt also a prison. "Previously there was lattice-jerujinya, but has now been removed. What we know, this former prison, political prisoners," said Desmon.

See above, it appears the roof of bamboo with filled by cement. Some parts have been damaged and that water stain that rain puddle white color palate. Go to a bit part in, there are piles of black table teak. Tables of teak wood table that is used by the original participants delegation KAA 1955. Somehow, the original tables, amounting to 29 units are left damaged there.

Arrive in the space below, there is a small door that was closed the meeting by brick and cement. A number of museum employees KAA justify the alley that connects the room to the ground under the stage in the conference room. Closing is done in 1992, when the KTT Nonblok was held in the building. Closing a small alley in the basement with the security of the delegation participants KTT Nonblok.


The small door covered with brick at basement Gedung Merdeka, make a lot of perception of many people in the surrounding areas. Some people who have long lived in or around Gedung Merdeka acknowledge subway that connects the building with other buildings.

There are also connecting it with the context of the Asia Africa Conference. Subway in Gedung Merdeka connect with the Hotel Savoy Homann access road to the conference delegates who stay overnight at the hotel. The other opinion states that the other lane that connects with the de Vries Building, located in the opposite Gedung Merdeka.

"When i was young, I had entered the underground room in Gedung Merdeka. Many prisoners with a mustache and beard long in there. Then, I ordered to feed the prisoners," said Adin (72), retired civil servants, Hygiene Department, Bandung who now works as a security officer at OCBC Bank NISP Jln. Asia Africa. Adin confess, can not see clearly the face of the prisoners because the darkness.

"I was also told that there are underground tunnels that connect the underground room with the Building Gedung Merdeka de Vries. But, of course I do not know," said Adin.

Some opinions on building the tunnel under Gedung Merdeka is more "wild". There is the lane that connected with Pakuan Building, City Hall Building, to Gedung Sate. Opinion that more "wild" even the alley that connects to the villa isola UPI. Setiabudhi.

Head of Museum KAA Isman Pasha, said he had heard many stories about the mystery of space underground tunnels and the building with the surrounding buildings.

"I have never heard a tunnel connecting this building with a shop and shop the Lido (Building de Vries) that chance maybe true " said Isman. That, he said, underground tunnels that connect buildings in the crypt with the stage in the conference room is exacly has.




source : Pikiran Rakyat Bandung

Macaroni Schotel

Macaroni Schotel

Description:
This is one of the favorite food for snack in afternoon with some tea.

Ingredients:
250 gr Macaroni, boiled
200 gr chopped meat (chicken, beef) with smoked beef is also good
500 ml milk
5 eggs
100 gr grated cheese
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 / 4 tsp pepper
1 / 4 tsp nutmeg

Directions:
1. All ingredients mixed into one, except cheese.
2. Put the dough in the brass, spread cheese on top.
3. Make oven for 30 minutes or until the surface is little dark

Blackberry..

BlackBerry is now the favorite gadgets to everyone. Not the Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) also have them. But JK is created confusion with the mobile phone that offers many advanced features. (detiknet.com)

What is Blackberry ??

Blackberry was first introduced in 1997 by the Canadian company, Research In Motion (Rim). Capabilities deliver information through wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies surprise the world.

Blackberry was first introduced in Indonesia in mid-December 2004 by your company StarHub and Indosat. StarHub is a implementation company of the Rim Blackberry are the main partners. In Indonesia, StarHub to be part of the service in all things technical about the installation operator Indosat via Blackberry. Indosat provides Blackberry Internet Service and Blackberry Enterprise Server.

Blackberry market then being popular by two other major operator Excelkom and Telkomsel. Excelkom provide two service options that is Blackberry Internet Service and Blackberry Enterprise Server.

Initially, the Blackberry service can only be accessed through a Blackberry smartphone only. But along with the time, the third operator has to provide facilities that enable Blackberry Connect Blackberry Internet Solution is accessed through a type of smartphone, such as Nokia (N-9500, N-9300, N-9300i, E61), Sony Ericsson P910i, M600i, Palm Treo , Dopod, and other.

So far, the new Blackberry facilities used by the users and the private corporation, has not penetrated to the government and the intelligence field as in other countries.






Blackberry Tellor, its made only just 50 in the world. With filling with 250 diamonds at the body.








The main feature Blackberry in the market is a push e-mail. This product gets a e-mail because it tracks all new e-mail, contact list, and schedule information (calendar) "driven" into the Blackberry automatically. With push e-mail all e-mail can be forwarded directly to the phone. E-mail is also a process of compression, and scan in the Blackberry server, so safe from viruses. Attachment files such as Microsoft office documents and PDF can be opened easily. an e-mail size of 1 MB, if received via push e-mail can be 10 kb with a fixed content.

User not need to access the internet and open the e-mail messages one by one, or checking a new e-mail. This is possible because the user will be connected to an internet through the mobile phone network is available. The tool also allows the storage of users to access the data to the out of the coverage of wireless service. Once the user is connected again, Blackberry Enterprise Server will deliver the incoming data.

Other merit is the ability to accommodate a Blackberry e-mail to tens of thousands without the risk of hangs there, as long as there is still memory left.

Power the passions you pursue with a smartphone that expresses your style and simplifies your life.

The BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone embodies elegant design — without sacrificing the features or functionality you expect from a premium smartphone.

Blackberry can also be used to chat. Similar to Yahoo Messenger, but it is done through the Blackberry network identity by entering the number.

All Blackberry service is known very well secure e-mail, chat, and browsing. for browsing the Internet data from the website have been compressed so that it opens more quickly.

Other facilities that are a mainstay Blackberry instant message. Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Skype has now become a partner with the Blackberry. The latest technology that allows us to "talk" (chat) in the Internet through mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). But the Blackberry is different in the installation process is complete it can be done through the wireless network.

Other advantage is also present through compression technology, which caused the cost of access becomes cheaper and the answers through a message alert on Blackberry vibration

Crackberry ??

Crackberry comes from a word that means the crack cocaine and said Blackbery. Ease of access are presented in e-mail and instant messaging make the user can't be separated from the Blackberry. Effect is produced to make the user look like a person addicted to the Blackberry. Crackberry also raises concerns will be a change of rhythm not health, balance the loss of life.

This and some state governments to limit and even prohibit the use of Blackberry. Office Citizenship and Immigration Canada, officials ordered the employees to turn off that gadget from 7 pm to 7 am, public holidays and weekends. This is to keep alive harmony life of employees. The government then issued special guidelines in handling emergency situations in relation to restrictions Blackberry. While in France, appears to ban the minister to use the Blackberry with intelligence reasons. This is understandable, considering the use of Blackberry in the UK has been extended to the tracking numbers of vehicles and photographs of criminals.

Tutorial setting for Blackberry on XL,

sms BB ON sent to 568. You will get a reply message :

Terima kasih atas kepercayaan Anda menggunakan layanan XL BlackBerry. Untuk mengaktifkan layanan BlackBerry One, ketik YA kirim ke 568.

sms YA sent to 568, and you will get a reply message :

Anda telah mengaktifkan layanan BlackBerry One dari XL. Layanan BlackBerry One akan aktif dalam waktu 1×24 jam.

And after you have another notification "

Layanan BlackBerry One Anda sudah aktif, selamat menikmati layanan BlackBerry One dari XL. Informasi lebih lanjut www.nyambungterus.com.

The more tutorial setup can read by this link

Bandoenk city - Bandung City

Bandung city, is located about 180km southeast from Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Now you can takes it from Jakarta to Bandung only with 2.5 hours via Cipuralang highway. I was born in this city, so with this blog i want to share for what i read, hear and searching about my city

The city history dates from 1488 when the first reference to Bandung exists. But from ancient archeological finds, we know the city was home to Australopithecus, Java Man These people lived on the banks of the Cikapundung in north Bandung, and on the shores of the Great Lake of Bandung. Flint artifacts can still be found in the Upper Dago area and the Geological Museum has displays and fragments of skeletal remains and artifacts.

Bandung City Square (Alun Alun) in 1939


Bandung City Square (Alun- Alun) 2008

The Sundanese were a pastoral people farming the fertile regions of Bandung. They developed a lively oral tradition which includes the still practiced Wayang Golek puppet theater, and many musical forms. "There is a city called Bandung, comprising 25 to 30 houses," wrote Julia de Silva in the 1614th

The achievements of European adventurers to try their luck in the fertile and prosperous Bandung area, led eventually to 1786 when a road was built connecting Jakarta, Bogor, Cianjur and Bandung. This flow was increased in 1809 when Louis Napoleon, the ruler of the Netherlands, ordered Governor General HW Daendels, to increase Defenses in Java against English. The vision was a chain of military defense units and a supply road between Batavia and Cirebon. But this coastal area was marsh and swamp, and it was easier to construct the road further south, across the highlands Priangan.

Asia Afrika Street 1935


Asia Afrika at Nigth 2009

The post Grote (Great Post Road) was built 11 miles north of the then capital of Bandung. With his usual terseness, Daendels ordered the capital to be relocated to the road. Bupati Wiranatakusumah II chose a site south of the road on the western bank of the Cikapundung, near a pair of holy wells, Sumur Bandung, supposedly protected by the ancient goddess Nyi Kentring Manik. On this site he built his Dalem (palace) and the Alun-Alun (city square). Following traditional orientations, Mesjid Agung (Grand Mosque) was placed on the western side, and the public market on the east. His residence and Pendopo (meeting place) was on the south facing the mystical mountain of Tangkuban Perahu. Thus was The Flower City born.

Grand Mosque in 1880 , 1920, 2008

Around the middle of the l9th Century, South American cinchona (quinine), Assam tea, and coffee was introduced to the highlands. By the end of the century Priangan was registered as the most prosperous plantation area of the province. In 1880 the rail line connecting Jakarta and Bandung was completed, and promised a 3 hour trip from the blistering in the capital Jakarta to Bandung.



With this life changed in Bandung, hotels, cafes, shops sprouted up to serve the planters who either came down from their highland plantations or up from the capital to Frolic in Bandung. The Concordia Society was formed and with its large ballroom was the social magnet for weekend activities in the city. The Preanger Hotel and the Savoy Homann were the hotels of choice. The Braga became the promenade, lined with exclusive shops Europeans.


Braga street in 1920 , 1937


With the railroad, light industry flourished. Once raw plantation crops were sent directly to Jakarta for shipment to Europe, now primary processing could be done efficiently in Bandung. The Chinese who had never lived in Bandung in any number came to help run the facilities and vendor machines and services to the new industries. Chinatown dates from this period.

In the first years of the present century, Pax Neerlandica was proclaimed, resulting in the passing of military government to a civilian one. With this came the policy of Decentralization to lighten the administrative burden of the central government. And so Bandung became a municipality in 1906.

This turn of events left a great impact on the city. City Hall was built at the north end of Braga to accommodate the new government, separate from the original native system This was soon followed by a larger scale development when the military headquarters was moved from Batavia to Bandung around the 1920th The chosen site was east of City Hall, and consisted of a residence for the Commander in Chief, offices, barracks and military housing.

By the early 20's the need for skilled professionals drove the establishment of the technical high school that was sponsored by the citizens of Bandung. At the same time the plan to move the capital of the Netherlands Indies from Batavia to Bandung was already mature, the city was to be extended to the north. The capital district was placed in the northeast, an area that had formerly been rice fields, and a grand avenue was planned to run for about 2.5 kilometers facing the fabled Tangkuban Perahu volcano with Gedung Sate at the south end, and a colossal monument at the other. on both sides of this grand boulevard buildings would house the various offices of the massive colonial government.

Along the east bank of the Cikapundung River amidst natural scenery was the campus of the Technische Hooge School, dormitories and staff housing. The old campus buildings and its original landscaping reflect the genius of its architect Henri MacLaine Pont. The southwestern section was reserved for the municipal hospital and the Pasteur Institute, in the neighborhood of the old factory quinine. These developments were carefully planned down to the architectural and maintenance details. These years shortly before World War II were the golden ones in Bandung and those alluded to today as Bandung Tempo Doeloe.

This is the landmark of ITB campus. The architect of this building is Ir. Mac Laine Pont (1920). This building is the combination between Indonesian traditional architecture style with modern western construction technique.

The war years did little to change the city of Bandung, but in 1946, facing the return of the Colonial Dutch to Indonesia, citizens chose to burn down their beloved Bandung in what has become known as Bandung Lautan Api, Bandung Ocean of Fire. Citizens FLED to the southern hills and overlooking the "ocean of flames" penned "Halo Halo Bandung," the anthem promising their return. Political Unrest colored the early years of Independence and consequently people Flocked to Bandung where safety was. The population skyrocketed from 230,000 in 1940 to 1 million by the 1961st Economic prosperity following the oil boom in the 70's pushed this further so that by 1990 there were 2 million inhabitants.

Present day Bandung is thriving. As home to more than 35 schools of higher education, there is a vibrant collegiate atmosphere. The excellent fine arts offerings have produced an artist colony of great repute and excitement. The textile industry is the largest in the country and contributes to a vigorous business climate.

In 1987 the city extended its administrative boundaries toward a Greater Bandung Plan (Bandung Raya) Plans for the city include higher concentrations of development outside the current city center, in an attempt to dilute some of the population density in the old core. These days Bandung Raya is still years ahead, yet the land has suffered deeply. Commercial activities run amok, God only knows who can take control. The city core is practically Uprooted, old faces are torn down, lot sizes regrouped, and what was idyllic residence is now bustling chain supermarkets and rich banks.


Parijs Van Java on the air

The view of Bandung in 1920's - 1930's

This view is from the 1920's that would like to see the North-East district of the centre. The KNIL (Netherlands Army) War Department building, right center, is the one that captures attention, which in Kalimantan Street. On the left the palace commandant of the Army (Aceh Street) and Molukkenpark (Taman Maluku), and HBS (current SMUN 3) on the right side Bilitonstraat (Belitung Street). Before the war, the Ministry of Insulindepark (now Taman Lalu Lintas), surrounded by all types of buildings and houses in KNIL officer. Ministry of War in the background, the Jaarbeurs building, built in 1920. Left below is the interface between the road and Aceh Merdeka Street. In the background, in the left corner is the Department of the government building, such as betterknown "Gedung Sate"

This is the view of the old Grand Hotel Homann and surroundings. Hotel Homann was founded around 1870 on the Groote Postweg (now Asia Africa Street) as a simple hotel, but grew to be the most popular hotel of Bandung. Many famous people stayed there, but besides that it was very well known for its rice-table. In 1938 / 1939 the old hotel was replaced by a modern Indonesian new-business-style (art deco style) building by a design of architect Aalbers, with the new name Hotel Savoy Homann. Down right on the picture, dated beginning 1930's, the Bragaweg ends in the Groote Postweg. The building on the corner, one should see a part of the roof, was part of the famous Concordia Club.

Villa Isola at Setiabudhi Street (picutre above) , direction Lembang, in 1938. It was built in 1933 ordered by the millionaire Berretty, one of the most famous persons in the Indies newspaper-world en founder of the press agency Aneta. Berretty had this impressive country-house predominantly built in new-business style by the famous architect Wolff Schoemaker, already responsible for the Grand Hotel Preanger, the Jaarbeurs building and the Concordia club. Berretty was only able to enjoy this beautiful posession for one year. December 22, 1934 he crashed with the "Uiver", a plane of the KLM, the Royal Dutch Airlines. After that Villa Isola was in service as a annex of the Grand Hotel Homann, untill the Second Worldwar. Now, this building is the main office for UPI (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) was IKIP (Institut Kejuruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan)

View from 1930 of the Sukamiskin Prison, at Ujungberung street, East of Bandung, on road to Garut. Around the huge, symmetric shaped complex the houses for the personal are built. The small airport Sukamiskin is seen in the background, one can see the landingstrip markings. Sukamiskin was used from the late 1920's as a prison for Indonesian nationalists and was known to the people as a symbol of colonial suppression. President Sukarno was here in prison, after his conviction in the sensational trial against him and some other Indonesian leaders in december 1930. The irony was that Sukarno some years earlier, during a short period as an architect, probably worked on the building drawings himself. During the Japanese occupation Sukamiskin was a prison for Dutch civil servants, until February 1944.


taken from J.R. van Diessen and R.P.G.A. Voskuil , LSAI

Inspiration story

When i come to a ministry in my town, i have listen a true story from the preacher... its about Wilma Rudolph.. have you heard her ??

Here the story...

Wilma Rudolph was born at bethlehem, Tennessee in 1940, she was a 20th or 22th children.. what a big familiy huh.. and caught "infantile paralysis" (caused by the polio virus) as a very young child. She recovered, but wore a brace on her right leg and foot which had become twisted as a result. By the time she was twelve years old, she had also survived scarlet fever, whooping cough, chicken pox and measles. Her family drove her from Clarksville, Tennessee to Nashville, Tennessee regularly for treatments to straighten her twisted leg.

In 1952, 12-year-old Wilma Rudolph finally achieved her dream of shedding her handicap and becoming like other children. Wilma's older sister was on a basketball team, and Wilma vowed to follow in her footsteps. While in high school, Wilma was on the basketball team when she was spotted by the coach Edward S. Temple. Being discovered by Temple was a major break for a young athlete. The day he saw the tenth grader for the first time, he knew he had found a natural athlete. Wilma had already gained some track experience on Burt High School's track team two years before, mostly as a way to keep busy between basketball seasons.

While attending Burt High School, Rudolph became a basketball star, setting state records for scoring and leading her team to the state championship. By the time she was 16, she earned a berth on the U.S. Olympic track and field team and came home from the 1956 Melbourne Games with an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 × 100-meter relay.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she won three Olympic titles; the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 × 100 m relay. As the temperature climbed toward 110 degrees, 80,000 spectators jammed the Stadio Olimpico. Rudolph ran the 100-meter dash in an impressive 11 seconds flat. However the time was not credited as a world record because it was wind-aided. She also won the 200-meter dash in 23.2 seconds, a new Olympic record. After these twin triumphs, she was being hailed throughout the world as "the fastest woman in history". Finally, on September 11, 1960, she combined with Tennessee State teammates Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams and Barbara Jones to win the 400-meter relay in 44.5 seconds, setting a world record. Rudolph had a special, personal reason to hope for victory—to pay tribute to Jesse Owens, the celebrated American athlete who had been her inspiration, also the star of the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, Germany.^[6]

Rudolph retired from track competition in 1962 after winning two races at a U.S.–Soviet meet.As I know until today, no one has break for her record at 1960 olympics with 3 gold medals

this site you can see the video of Wilma Rudolph

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

Megapixel Story

For normal 4x6" (10x15cm) prints, even VGA (640 x 480 or 0.3MP) resolution is just fine. Digital cameras did this back in 1991!

In 1999 when digital cameras were only 1.2 or 2 MP, each megapixel mattered if you were making bigger prints.

Today, even the cheapest cameras have at least 5 or 6 MP, which enough for any size print. How? Simple: when you print three-feet (1m) wide, you stand further back. Print a billboard, and you stand 100 feet back. 6MP is plenty.

Sharpness depends more on your photographic skill than the number of megapixels, because most people's sloopy tehnique or subject motion blurs the image more than the width of a microscopic pixel.

Even when megapixels mattered, there was little visible difference between cameras with seemingly different ratings. For instance, a 3 MP camera pretty much looks the same as a 6 MP camera, even when blown up to 12 x 18" (30x50cm)! I know because I've done this. Have you? NY Times tech writer David Progue did this here and here and saw the same thing — nothing!

Joe Holmes' limited-edition 13 x 19" prints of his American Museum of Natural History series sell at Manhattan's Jen Bekman Gallery for $650 each. They're made on a 6MP D70.

Sharpness has very little to do with image quality, and resolution has little to do with sharpness. Resolution (pixel count) has nothing to do with picture quality. Color and tone are far more important technically. Even Consumer Reports in their November 2002 issue noted some lower resolution digital cameras made better images than some higher resolution ones. That was a long time ago!

Explanation of Terms

Pixels

Pictures are made up of little dots called pixels. Pixel stands for PICture ELement. Put enough of them together and you have a picture. They are arranged horizontally and vertically. Get close enough to your computer screen (or use a magnifier) and you'll see them.

Resolution (Linear Resolution)

Image Resolution

Resolution is how many pixels you have counted horizontally or vertically when used to describe a stored image. Digital cameras today have between 2,048 and 4,500 pixels horizontally. 3 MP cameras have 2,048 pixels horizontally and 14 MP cameras have 4,500 pixels. They have fewer pixels vertically since the images aren't as tall as they are wide.

That's not much of a difference, is it? That's the whole point of this article. I'll explain that a little further down.

Print Resolution

Resolution is also how many pixels you have per inch or other linear unit when you print on paper. Most prints are made at 200 - 300 pixels per inch (PPI or DPI, dots per inch). This is the image resolution and has nothing to do with the technology by which the print is made. (For instance, inkjet printers' nozzle sizes are the silly 2880 DPI or other numbers you see. These printer numbers are often used by hucksters to hoodwink and distract you when talking about resolution. These only refer to how the ink is spat out on the paper.)

Screen Resolution

Most computer screens today are about 100 DPI, dots per inch. There isn't much variation from screen to screen so we rarely discuss this. It's easy to figure out: most computer screens are about 1,024 x 768 pixels. If your screen is 10" wide then divides 1,024 by 10 and you have a 102.4 DPI screen. Bigger screens tend to have more pixels, for instance, my 22" CRT has 1,600 x 1,200 pixels and has a viewing area of 16 x 12."

Yes, laptops with bigger screens tend to have lower linear resolution. No big deal.

Pixel Count, expressed as Megapixels

Pixel Count, expressed as Megapixels, is simply multiplying the number of horizontal pixels by the number of vertical pixels. It's exactly like calculating area. A 3 MP camera has 2,048 (horizontal) x 1,536 (vertical) pixels, or 3,145,728 pixels. We call this simply 3 MP.

Small differences in pixel count, between say 5 MP and 8MP, are unimportant because pixel counts are a square function. It's exactly like calculating area or square footage. It only takes a 40% increase in linear dimensions to double the pixel count! Doubling pixel count only increases the real, linear resolution by 40%, which is pretty much invisible.

The Myth

The megapixel myth was started by camera makers and swallowed hook, line and sinker by camera measurebators. Camera makers use the number of megapixels a camera has to hoodwink you into thinking it has something to do with camera quality. They use it because even a tiny linear resolution increase results in a huge total pixel increase, since the total pixel count varies as the total area of the image, which varies as the square of the linear resolution. In other words, an almost invisible 40% increase in the number of pixels in any one direction results in a doubling of the total number of pixels in the image. Therefore camera makers can always brag about how much better this week's camera is, with even negligible improvements.

This gimmick is used by salespeople and manufacturers to you feel as if your current camera is inadequate and needs to be replaced even if the new cameras each year are only slightly better.

One needs at least a doubling of linear resolution or film size to make an obvious improvement. This is the same as quadrupling the megapixels. A simple doubling of megapixels, even if all else remained the same, is very subtle. The factors that matter, like color and sharpening algorithms, are far more significant.

The megapixel myth is also prevalent because men always want a single number by which something's goodness can be judged.

Unfortunately, it's all a myth because the number of megapixels (MP) a camera has has very little to do with how the image looks. Even worse, plenty of lower MP cameras can make better images than poorer cameras with more MP.

The Hype

Here's a complete fabrication by a company who is trying to spread the myth to get you to buy too much camera. There's a similar page here. That page is brilliantly done, however it's done with completely fraudulent data to exaggerate the differences. At the low magnifications shown on the screen any and all of those examples should look perfect. Instead the two lower resolution examples have been deliberately degraded to make them look worse. Their page displaying results for a 5 x 7" print actually show how the 4 MP camera would look blown up to 12 by 9 feet, not 5 x 7 inches!

How do we know their 4MP example is what you'd see blown up twelve feet wide, not 5 x 7 inches? Easy: for the 4 MP example at maximum crop I see pixels blown up to little squares measuring 16 pixels per inch on my screen. (Just get out your ruler and measure for yourself.) You divide the number of pixels by the PPI (DPI) to get how many inches you get in print at that resolution. Thus printing a 2,289 x 1,712 pixel (4MP) image at 16 PPI gives (2289/16)" x (1712/16)" or 143" x 107" or, dividing inches by 12 to get feet, 12' x 9.'

I'm sure the designer of that page would feign ignorance of the technology involved if made to own up to it. Page designers don't have Ph.D.s in digital image processing, either. Most likely the designer worked on it till their manager made sure that they showed a clear difference. Their manager, if made to come clean, would probably explain that the page was put up to illustrate the differences as an educational service, not as actual science or a legitimate example. They had to make certain "adjustments" to make the differences clear, namely, to make the 4 MP and 5 MP cameras look much worse than they are.

I taught you above how to calculate the differences among different resolution cameras. The difference between the 6 MP and 4 MP cameras should be (square root (6/4)) or SQR(1.5) or 22.4%. In other words, the size of the pixels or number per inch should be less than 25% different between the 4 MP and 6 MP cameras. They've made the lower resolution cameras look much, much worse by comparison on that page.

nb: thx to KenRockwell