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Graphite Kindle: Web browser is unable to display this web page #
Last year I gushed over the Kindle (Forget eBooks, Kindle offers free web access), and was excited about the wifi-only Graphite model with its "New WebKit-Based Browser" (plus, my previous Kindle screen had broken under unbelievably light pressure).
I am sad to report that the new browser is far less capable than its predecessor, mainly because it does not work for more than one or two pages before displaying:
/misc | Sep 01, 2010
Dwelling #- Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. -- Leonardo da Vinci
- For my part, as I grow older I am more and more inclined to reduce my baggage, to lop off superfluities. I become more and more in love with simple things and simple folk -- a small house, a hut in the woods, a tent on the shore. The show and splendor of great houses, elaborate furnishings, stately halls, oppress me, impose upon me. They fix the attention upon false values, they set up a false standard of beauty; they stand between me and the real feeders of character and thought. -- John Burroughs
- Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. -- William Morris
- There is an old story about a famous rabbi living in Europe who was visited one day by a man who had traveled by ship from New York to see him. The man came to the great rabbi's dwelling, a large house on a street in a European city, and was directed to the rabbi's room, which was in the attic. He entered to find the master living in a room with a bed, a chair, and a few books. The man expected much more. After greetings, he asked, "Rabbi, where are your things?" The rabbi asked in return, "Well, where are yours?" His visitor replied, "But, Rabbi, I'm only passing through," and the master answered, "So am I, so am I." -- Jack Kornfield
- Turn yourself into gold and then live wherever you please. -- Sri Ramakrishna
/misc | Aug 20, 2010
Web browser security analysis #Qualys BrowserCheck checks your browser as well as browser plugins and add-ons to identify insecure and out-of-date versions that put you at risk. Runs under Windows / Mac OS X, and detects:
- Windows OS support expiration
- Browser version (IE 6.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome 4.0+)
- Adobe Flash Player
- Adobe Reader 5.x and above
- Adobe Shockwave Player
- Apple Quicktime
- BEA JRockit
- Microsoft Silverlight
- Microsoft Windows Media Player
- Real Player
- Sun Java
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
/misc | Aug 14, 2010
Skype Test Call contact missing #Skype's sound set up guide offers the following suggestion:
"To test your sound set up in any version of Skype, use the Skype Test Call robot - find it in your contact list."Sadly, it was missing from my contact list, and searching the directory for "skype test", "skype test call", etc returned a vast number of fake test call accounts. The real Skype Test Call robot username is echo123.
/misc | Jul 09, 2010
Flash Cookies #When clearing your web browser's cache / cookies / temp files / etc, don't forget to wipe Flash cookies (*.SOL files, properly known as Local Shared Objects, or LSO) too. OS X users will find them buried within subfolders in
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/ and
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/
Be aware that Flash cookies are not deleted by Safari's "Reset Safari", Opera's "Delete Private Data", Firefox's "Clear Recent History", or any other browser's cleaning method. (Iain Cheyne kindly points out that the BetterPrivacy add-on for Firefox can manage Flash cookies.)
/misc | Jun 29, 2010
Smartphone remote kill switches #or, "Why I still use a Palm Treo 755p":
- Android: Android also gives Google remote app installation power
- iPhone: Apple's Jobs confirms iPhone 'kill switch'
- webOS: App Catalog 'kill switch' live in webOS 1.2
- Windows Mobile: Windows Mobile 6.5 joins the ranks of iPhone and Android with its own app kill switch
/misc | Jun 26, 2010
The Peaceful Mind #- Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company. -- Seneca
- A peaceful mind is your most precious capital. -- Sivananda
- A man is what he thinks about all day long. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who always dwells within himself becomes possessed of very ample means. -- Henry Suso
- The man in contemplation is a free man. He needs nothing. Therefore nothing determines or distorts his thought. He does whatever he loves to do, and what he does is done for its own sake. -- Aristotle
/misc | Jun 05, 2010
POP, IMAP, and Exchange client for Android #K-9 Mail is an open source email client for Android with support for POP, IMAP, and Exchange. K9 has two major benefits over Android's built-in Email app:
- It works
- Option to Bcc a copy of sent mail (ideal for POP accounts)
/misc | May 25, 2010
Free PDF to DOC converters #freewaregenius.com has a detailed review of free online and offline PDF to DOC converters. In my brief and unscientific testing, SmartSoft's lightweight Free PDF to Word Converter was the best for converting a long text-based PDF.
/misc | May 10, 2010
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 vs S1500 #I was debating between the ScanSnap S1300 and S1500 until watching this video. Debate over. For the tl;dw crowd: the S1500 scanned 15 double-sided pages in 30 seconds, while the S1300 took 107 seconds.
/misc | May 10, 2010
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