My birthday present to myself arrived yesterday: the new Barnes & Noble "nook" ebook reader.

As you probably know, ebooks and ebook readers have been a hobby of mine for a while now. I'm rather passionate about ebooks. So of course I had to get a nook to see how it stacks up.


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I was thinking about it yesterday, I've had quite a few PDAs over the years.
I'm probably forgetting one or two, but here's the ones that come to mind:


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Here's what's on there currently... almost 7 pages of apps. I could probably trim out a few I don't use very often...


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Analog Man in the Digital Age
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The Engineer's Dilemma

Being a Somewhat Rambling Musing on the Information Age

We live in an interesting time. We have come out of the Industrial Age and into the Information Age. More and more the world is connected digitally, but paradoxically, people feel more lost than ever ( Read more... )

So I really like my iPhone. Yes, it has flaws, both hardware and software, but there is one hardware limitation above all others that I run into every day: the pathetic 16GB of storage.

It might seem like a fair amount, but coming from an 80GB iPod, it's not nearly enough. I can only put a fraction of my music library on the iPhone, and every ( Read more... )

The livejounal posting app for the iPhone now has a field for "mood" and "current music", and location is decoded as an address instead of latitude and longitude coordinates. Yay!


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I got a case for my iPhone - previously I had just been using an old dice bag.

The thing that caught my eye about this case is that it actually adds a feature to the iPhone that was missing.

It's the Griffin Clarifi and it has a little lens that you can slide in front of the iPhone camera to give it a macro mode for close up shots.


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Here's a new Ferrari concept motorcycle:


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As William Gibson pointed out:"The future is already here.
It's just not very evenly distributed."
Case in point: the EKG and EEG ( Read more... )

When you sync the iPhone, if you have made any changes to the apps you have on the phone, it does a full backup when you sync. Which for me, is pretty much every time ( Read more... )