As of today, I’m a Kindle. But if you don’t know yet, how do you choose? How do you pick between two great, different devices?
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Here’s how to choose: Picture a quiet Sunday evening. Would you rather spend an hour reading a book, or watching TV?
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If you answered "TV", then you’re an iPad. If you chose the book, then you’re a Kindle.
How flat the world is. Just got an international shipment from Lenovo, mapped courtesy of UPS, Google and Boxoh:
My Gmail predictions for 2009 failed miserably. I may have been guilty of wishful thinking.
So, continuing on the theme of wishful thinking, here are my 2010 predictions:
Happy New Year!
The next step was to finish the roof structure in preparation for the steel roof, ordered from Dunn Lumber.
We chose a red roof to match some of the red tile and rusted steel roofs of some chalets in Switzerland. G. also provided some sample-size windows – two on the South side and one on the North side.
For the finish, I sided the walls and the “basement” with fence boards, and designed the deck railing based on my ancestors’ house in Switzerland.
I added a wooden ladder (on the right) and the kids stacked the obligatory firewood below the deck.
I wanted to document my Swiss chalet treehouse for a few friends that have expressed interest in the project. I’ve thought for several years about building a treehouse, a shed, or both, in my backyard. The kids had heard this so many times they were treating it like another castle in Spain. And yet, this year was the year, and the treehouse (with shed-like storage) is standing proudly in the backyard.
I followed a lot of google.ch searches to find a number of chalets of all sizes to get ideas on proportions and details. Some of the noteworthy ones:
Rustic; Fantastic; Bucolic; Commercial; Nice Kit; My brother’s fiancée’s family chalet
Based on these inspirations, I drew a few sketches. I had 10 ft of total height to work with, 12 of depth and 7 in width. I wanted the roof pitch and overhang to match the Swiss types, and some of the final touches to highlight Swissness (balcony, flowers)
In the next post: construction
Link to Msn Messenger status detector. We will tell you who blocked your msn account
This questionable service – finding out who has blocked and deleted you in MSN is either:
Don’t trust it!
As a recent 8700 owner, I could ot understand why my streaming speed capable device couldn’t play media files. I had a theory that RIM didn’t want the additional data load on their servers – looks like I was wrong. With Blackberry’s new device, this functionality is unveiled and – hopefully, will be available for 8700 users. Please?
BlackBerryToday: News: BlackBerry Stealth Revealed As 8100.
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PDA Browser Spoofing
One effective technique for basic PDA smoke testing is to use browser spoofing, in effect making a desktop browser lie about its identity to the server and thereby requesting a PDA version of a page.
Spoofing Advantages & Disadvantages
Spoofing is useful to look at pages and track basic functionality, but it is not subsitute for device or emulator testing, becaus spoofing will not necessarily render the page as intended for the target device.
On the other hand, spoofing has its advantages:
How to spoof using Firefox
Many hours are lost by the analyst trying to figure out what color(s) is used in a Web site. To simplify this task, I recommend two different tools:
