Author: Diana

Canon Selphy C910

By Diana
Selphy C910 Book Cover Selphy C910
Canon
$99.99

This is a photo printer by Canon, where the largest size is 4x6 print or postcard.  This is a wireless printer but can also take an SD card and also USB.  I am not a huge fan of the wireless printing just because I usually don't have great luck with it.  With this printer I had really good luck printing pictures that were taken on my iPhone from my MacBook wirelessly.  This printer will do full pictures, no border that is, but I actually like the ones that do have the border.  I just think it looks better.  Printing directly from the iPhone I have not figured out how to get the border, I can only get it from the MacBook.  But the good thing is that, at least with the iPhone, it was easy to get printing - same with the MacBook.  I did try for a couple minutes to print from my Windows 10 computer, but was not successful and didn't play with it anymore and I do plan on getting that to work.

The price was reasonable and the paper, which comes with the ink cartridge, is also reasonable.  I purchased mine from Amazon and it totaled around $137.  It is certainly more expensive then going to a place like Walgreens, but it is in your home and you might be more likely to actually get a picture printed.  Plus it is so small that you could actually take it with you like on vacation or something.  I can imagine if you were into scrap booking it would be perfect.

This is my first photo quality printer and so far I really do like it and recommend it to anyone who is looking to make high quality prints at home - and who doesn't need a multi-function printer.

Update: I used this a TON a couple weeks ago to print out pictures for my project and it did a great job!!  I did print from my Mac and the only downside is that you can not send a ton at a time, you have to be patient and send like one, wait for it to print and then send the next one.

Hotline Bling

By Diana
Hotline Bling Book Cover Hotline Bling
2015
Song
Drake

This song is AMAZING!!!!!  It is so incredibly catchy and easy to sing along to.  It does get stuck in your head if you are not careful :)  Also, watching the video for this song is a must because it really helps to dance with the song!!  Just super fun.

Making a Murderer

By Diana
Making a Murderer Book Cover Making a Murderer
Documentary
2015
Netflix
1

This is a review for the Netflix Original series Making a Murderer which was released in 2015.  It is the story of Steven Avery of Wisconsin who was imprisoned for 18 years for a sexual assault he didn't commit.  After his release, following an appeal made with the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, he filed a $36 million federal lawsuit as compensation and deterrent from unethical practices.  Shortly after he filed this lawsuit a woman is reported missing.  This woman was a photographer for the used car magazine Car Trader.  She was last known to be out on locations to take pictures of vehicles and one of those places was to Steven's house.   Shortly after she was reported missing, Steven was arrested.

I already like documentaries, but this one was very well done.  This is by far the longest real documentary I have watched clocking in at 10 episodes averaging out at about an hour each.

It basically walks through the trial including parts of his nephew's trial as well.  The nephew had provided a taped confession to helping Steven with the murder.  I don't really know how to review this without providing spoilers so if you are reading this and don't want to know what happens, stop reading now :)

I did resist reading about this while I was watching so I formed an idea about how it was going to pan out and let me just say that I was shocked.  Just the idea that he has spent 18 years in jail is crazy and then for him to be convicted of this murder with such poor evidence.  There are so many things that don't make sense it is almost comical.  First the woman's throat was supposed to have been cut while she was restrained on a bed in Steven's trailer.  Yet they found zero blood or any of her DNA in the trailer.  Now this man has a very low IQ and so does his nephew, so I think it is really unlikely that they could pull something off like this with no traces found.  And  the evidence that they did have was really crazy careless compared to the bedroom.  Needless to say I believe these men were convicted of crimes they did not commit.  Also, all their appeals for anything have been declined - crazy!

This is getting a lot of media attention now that this documentary has been released and I believe we will see something happen with this case in the near future.  My opinion is that they most likely did not commit this murder and are in jail unjustly.

Additional Comments

So it has been about a week since I wrote this review and this show has gone viral. I can't believe it is all over the news, everyone is talking about it. It really was that good and it certainly seems that there was something very wrong going on in this county. I urge anyone reading this to watch it and see for yourselves. That's all, just wanted to add that it was going crazy!