IME and that of my friends, Canon's digital point-and-shoot cameras do an excellent job with colors. I don't happen to like the colors from their digital SLRs (for DSLR color I like Olympus). But for a simpler digital camera, I have no trouble recommending Canon.

I did find out that the digital images that my camera takes are low, low quality - not that I was surprised, LOL! Anyway, it was explained to me that a good quality digital camera will take low quality video and a good quality video that has still-shot capabilities will take low quality stills. You can't have both features in high quality. I am much more into still photography and not really interested in a camcorder with lots of features. I don't even do any editing :( I think I can narrow down my choice to a camera with no still capabilities. I don't need that. The main reason I wanted to get one tonite is that in-laws were babysitting and I would be able to shop alone. No big deal and I should have posted earlier. I'll do some online price and quality comparisons like you suggested. Thanks!

It bothered me too. The easiest one to figure out how to turn off was the microwave. It should be in the manual.

Thanks for the desk stuff thoughts. Good thought on the pantry. I don't want my main set up there as I want to be with the view and I move back and forth between kitchen tasks and my laptop etc a lot. But a file drawer in the pantry fir project type stuff could free up space for the stool with a thin drawer or two in the kitchen. I'm thinking of putting the base of the home phone system in the pantry (one plugs into a phone line then we have a Few handsets). I don't want phone jacks or phones out in the kitchen. Might put a electric outlet for a handset in a hitch cabinet but no phone jack. Nobody calls us on the house phone only junk calls (despite being on the do not call list we still get some surveys etc) and reminder calls for doctors appointments I think the house phone is going away. On the Paprika it can save with one click for most recipes online. If it doesn't work you can highlight sections then click on buttons to tell it which part of the recipe it is (ingredients, directions etc). However, they recently had an update and now it can do just about any recipie (used to work with a fairly long list of sites but not everything with the one click). I also used to use MacGourmet and imported into Paprika. No digital version of the recipes? You might try googling and seeing if you can find them online then they'd be easy to add. If not scanning the print outs as PDFs might let you copy and paste in (it would need to be with OCR optical character recognition so it scans as words not images). Family recipes I have typed in and added my own pictures. I love how easy it is to add recipes (there are a few different ways to do it the built in web browser is one but you can add a bookmarklet tool to your regular browser and there is a safari share extension for the iPhone and iPad where it can show up as a choice where the print, email this etc options show up).. But I'm a bit guilty of being more of a collector than maker. I collect tons that I don't try but it is nice to have a big pre-culled collection of recipes that interested me. It's my first spot to look when I'm looking for something new and so easy to add that why not collect a lot! I still get a few cooking magazines that I like to flip through but I then go to the web site and get the online recipe to save to paprika.