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07 September 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Ebook Rant

My husband and I chose the Nook color as our ebook reader last year. Let me start by saying that we love them! I do however have two policy issues to complain about (and I’m pretty sure that these are not Nook or Barnes & Noble specific). This weekend my husband and I went on [...]

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27 February 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Generations and their Gadgets

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has a new infographic that shows what gadgets different generations reported having. One little rant from me – can anyone tell me why the age definition of generations keeps changing? Rant over

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28 December 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Nook Color Review

This Christmas I got a Nook Color from my hubby and mother. I’ve been using it for a few days and I think it’s time to share my opinions. First things first, if you have an ebook reader you must download Calibre. Calibre is an open source ebook management application that runs on Windows, Mac [...]

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06 November 2010 ~ 3 Comments

What I learned on the way home

Yesterday I flew home from NZ. I was in 3 countries, 3 states, 4 airplanes and 5 airports in more hours than I can count because of the varied time zones. While in the air I got an email from Ask.com telling me that Bloglines is actually not going away – but just moving to [...]

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12 October 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Update on Android Apps

Okay so just a couple days after I posted my last list of Android Apps I went and bought a new Android My new phone means I can have more/different apps installed. So, here is my updated list nengard’s Android apps on AppBrain And as always I welcome suggestions for other applications.

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08 October 2010 ~ 4 Comments

My Android Apps

nengard’s Android apps on AppBrain Most of my readers know that I’m a huge Android fan and love my Android! One of the threads I always reply to is ‘what are your favorite android apps?’ Well today I find out that AppBrain (one of my favorite apps) allows me to share my list of Android [...]

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04 October 2010 ~ 20 Comments

Do I need an ebook reader?

There seem to be two schools of thought on the ebook reader front. The first is “I love my books I don’t need a computer to read them” and the other is “Woo Hoo! How did I live without this?” I am in limbo between the two and so I figured I’d go through the [...]

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29 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Got me a Poken

So the folks here at PLAN learned about Poken from Helen Blowers who learned about it at the UGame, ULearn conference in Delft. A Poken is basically a little 4 fingered USB character that stores your virtual business card. You then go to Poken.com and enter in your contact info and when you ‘high 4′ [...]

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22 August 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Thoughts on the Blackberry Storm

Image by StrebKR via Flickr A few months ago I made the leap from plain old cell phone to smart phone. Being a Verizon customer (and not wanting to switch to AT&T) I chose the Blackberry Storm. It seems about time to write up a mini-review and see if any of my readers have some [...]

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20 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

I soooo need one of these

Normally I don’t advertise products I’m emailed about – but I have to write about this nifty gadget because I could have sooooo used it last night when I was doing my research. The BookMarker is a pen, postit holder, bookmark and book strap!! Never lose your place again, and never lose your bookmark! BookMarkerâ„¢ [...]

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