Only 1567 days until the end of the world. We still need to find all 13 crystal skulls and the appropriate global locations in which to place them before the end arrives on December 21, 2012.
We've got 4 skulls so far. Still lots of work to do.
Hurry hurry hurry!
Michael
Friday, September 5, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
oh, one more thing
The Kindle does allow graphics. Of course using the eInk technology, they're greyscale but there are still easy to see and not nearly as grainy as I thought they would be. I look forward to new developments in technology that will allow color images (although that may be several years down the road).
Amazon Kindle - First Impressions
Well, I've been playing with my Kindle for about 2 hrs now and I gotta say; I love it!
I've already gotten my self updated on both of the blogs I subscribed to, read through the articles in the New York Times that I found interesting and read the first chapter in the book I downloaded. I can increase the font large enough so that I no longer need to strain my eyes to read.
I even, set up my 14 day free trial to the NYT and did a little web browsing. Wikipedia on the Kindle; cool. Having the current edition of the Oxford Dictionary installed and being able to selected a line of text and instantly look up a word; totally awesome.
As you can see, I'm having a good time. Tonight I will transfer all of the free content I downloaded from other publisher websites to my Kindle and I'm even going to try a couple MP3's, audiobooks, Word and PDF files.
Until Later.
Michael
I've already gotten my self updated on both of the blogs I subscribed to, read through the articles in the New York Times that I found interesting and read the first chapter in the book I downloaded. I can increase the font large enough so that I no longer need to strain my eyes to read.
I even, set up my 14 day free trial to the NYT and did a little web browsing. Wikipedia on the Kindle; cool. Having the current edition of the Oxford Dictionary installed and being able to selected a line of text and instantly look up a word; totally awesome.
As you can see, I'm having a good time. Tonight I will transfer all of the free content I downloaded from other publisher websites to my Kindle and I'm even going to try a couple MP3's, audiobooks, Word and PDF files.
Until Later.
Michael
Anxiously awaiting to kindle a new relationship
With my new Amazon Kindle that it is :)
Due to some blurry vision, I've been unable to do much reading so after reviewing several different ebook readers I settled on the Amazon Kindle. The main selling point was that the font size can be increased up to a 25pt. My eyes aren't that bad, but it's nice to know that it's possible to get it that large. The other really cool thing is WhisperNet. My Kindle is still on the delivery truck but with WhisperNet the content I purchased (one book and a couple blog subscriptions) was already downloaded to my Kindle while in transit.
Don't get me wrong, I'll never give up my paper books. I still use the non-fic like crazy, but for just plain pleasure reading or when I'm having a lot of trouble with my vision, this'll be nice to have, cause I just plain cannot stand not being able to read. Another good selling point is all the free content available. You don't have to purchase one of Amazon's 160,000 Kindle format titles even at the price of 1/2 to 1/3 of cover price. You can download for free lots of books from Project Gutenberg, Harper Collins and Baen Publishing. The Kindle also has some web accessibility so you can read blogs online and even do some shopping. Plus whatever you purchase for the Kindle is downloaded automatically in seconds.
So, I'll post again after I've played with it for a few days. If it lives up to it's description and hype, I'll be doing the Snoopy happy dance very soon.
Later.
Michael
Due to some blurry vision, I've been unable to do much reading so after reviewing several different ebook readers I settled on the Amazon Kindle. The main selling point was that the font size can be increased up to a 25pt. My eyes aren't that bad, but it's nice to know that it's possible to get it that large. The other really cool thing is WhisperNet. My Kindle is still on the delivery truck but with WhisperNet the content I purchased (one book and a couple blog subscriptions) was already downloaded to my Kindle while in transit.
Don't get me wrong, I'll never give up my paper books. I still use the non-fic like crazy, but for just plain pleasure reading or when I'm having a lot of trouble with my vision, this'll be nice to have, cause I just plain cannot stand not being able to read. Another good selling point is all the free content available. You don't have to purchase one of Amazon's 160,000 Kindle format titles even at the price of 1/2 to 1/3 of cover price. You can download for free lots of books from Project Gutenberg, Harper Collins and Baen Publishing. The Kindle also has some web accessibility so you can read blogs online and even do some shopping. Plus whatever you purchase for the Kindle is downloaded automatically in seconds.
So, I'll post again after I've played with it for a few days. If it lives up to it's description and hype, I'll be doing the Snoopy happy dance very soon.
Later.
Michael
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