Mansi’s Dad is Flip’ped

Mansi’s parents visited us in March. Now since SD’s birthday falls on March 1, she decided to buy a gift for her Dad. Choosing a gift is difficult, but reasoning how useful the gift will be is even more tedious. Considering that Meher’s been running around, etc Mansi decided to get (1) camcorder (point and shoot type) or (2) fitness monitor+music player (iPod Nano).


After a lot of consideration and deliberations, she decided to finally get the Flip UltraHD Camcorder, 120 Minutes (Black). Mansi’s dad was very happy with the gift. Why ? Ease of use and easy to download the videos. As mentioned previously, he uses a Dell Inspiron with Ubuntu goodness. Now the Flip records HD quality video which means 1 minute video takes about 140 MB approx. Looking at the easiest way to transfer/share huge files,  I setup a DropBox account on his laptop, so that he can share his video experiences easily. Flip connects through a USB port and mounts as Flash Drive on Linux (open source goodness). Copying the files is just Drag and Drop :)


Everyone’s happy !!! 


(PS: Thanks to Aditya for buying this first and recommending it to me !!!)