Kindle hype overstated
I’m something of a gadget man and early adopter, especially when it comes to media and communications.
I can’t get excited about the kindle though. In its current form the electronic reader is just too one dimensional.
Much of the hype is coming from newspapers, which have a vested interest in promoting the platform. In fact the whole of the publishing industry, including books and magazines, is hoping it takes off.
Don’t rush out and buy an early version, is my view.
The kindle needs to be more than just a reader; it needs to be part of an integrated communications device.
Instead of creating hardware to read digital books, software will be developed that works on a range of platforms. (more…)
ADSL service
I’ve switched my broadband account from iPrimus to Internode. The Primus account stopped working on December 24, but the new account isn’t active yet. Guess I must wait until Tuesday (December 28) because of public holidays.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 installation
This is my phlog on some trouble I had installing Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium. The problem was related to me choosing the “wrong” language file.
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My first phlog
After several failed attempts at recording, here is my first phlog.
A website called ipadio offers a phone blogging service and this is my first effort. Although I’ve installed the software on my Android phone, this recording was made on a landline.
Reading more on the ipadio website, I can really see the potential for this service.
The “live” coverage of the Mount Gambier tennis final I gave on Coveritlive would have been better suited to streaming audio.
Login to make comments
I’m trialling the RPX authentication process for logging into this website.
It’s a relatively new service by JanRain that adds password-less sign-in and commenting to a site using OpenID, Facebook, MySpace, AOL, Twitter, Blogger, Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live.
That means visitors will no longer be able to comment without logging in, which may discourage some casual commenters, but it will also prevent spam. (more…)
Write your own web page
As the screenshot shows from a report on The Australian website, I fetched top dollar along with Kevin Pietersen in the auction for the Indian Premier League.
The newspaper wouldn’t fib now, would it?
Of course not, but thanks to an article on Read Write Web, I discovered a new online word processor called Shutterborg that enables people to edit web pages … any web pages anywhere.
It’s possible to save the edited pages, but I don’t imagine they’d be easy to replicate online given stylesheet issues, graphics and scripts.
However, it’s simple enough to take a screenshot, as I have done, and show the mock page as an image file.
Good fun or dangerous?
