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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 #
/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:
/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":
/misc | Jun 26, 2010 The Peaceful Mind #
/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:
/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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