By GW on 05/22/2012
At the left is a screenshot of Jorte Calendar’s settings menu. Click the thumbnail to enlarge it. First, let me say that I love Jorte Calendar. It’s one of the first things I’m sure to install when I get a new Android device. It’s currently on my HTC Amaze 4G, ASUS Transformer and was on [...]
Posted in Android, Books, Humor, Memes, Movies, TV shows Tagged Android, Buffalo Bill, google, Jamie Gumb, Jorte Calendar, lotion on its skin, movie quotes, Silence of the Lambs, youtube
By GW on 05/20/2012
When you purchase a Kindle title from Amazon via your browser, you get an option to send the title to your device via Amazon’s WhisperNet. But what about after you’ve already purchased a title? How do you send it to your Kindle after the fact, like after you’ve done a reset on your Kindle or [...]
Posted in Books, Shopping, Techie, Tutorials Tagged amazon, download book, ebooks, free, help, kindle, tutorial, Whispernet, Whispersync
By GW on 09/04/2011
A couple days ago, I bought the latest novella release by Stephen King. Titled Mile 81, it’s an ebook-only release. I downloaded it to my Kindle app for Android. Reminiscent of King’s Christine and From a From a Buick 8, this story contains some vivid, creepy imagery and features a car. I read it in [...]
Posted in Books, cars, Product Reviews Tagged car, cheap, ebook, gross, horror, kindle, Mile 81, muddy, novella, scary, Stephen King, stories
By GW on 09/30/2010
We’ve did a nice round of de-cluttering in our house and ended up with many boxes of books. I have this box of assorted horror, medical thriller and legal thriller books for sale. Authors include Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, Peter Straub, Robin Cook and Michael Crichton. I wish to sell this as one [...]
Posted in Books, People I admire, pop culture, Shopping Tagged books, dean koontz, horror, michael crichton, paperback, peter straub, reading, sale, Stephen King, stories, thrillers, used
By GW on 01/10/2010
While watching a segment regarding the electronic revolution and the publishing industry on CBS Sunday Morning today (Out of Print, the Written Word Considered), something occurred to me. Some public library systems already loan electronic content like ebooks and audiobooks through a partnership with services like OverDrive, but they require reader software and the books [...]
Posted in Books, Call to Action, Pipe dreams Tagged books, ebook, libraries, library, reading, rental
By GW on 01/06/2010
Back when I was in college*, I was pretty much at the mercy of the college bookstore when it came to textbooks. Even their used texts were outrageously expensive, and this was the late 1990′s. I can only imagine what students pay now. There were always a few “for sale” notes pinned to campus bulletin [...]
Posted in Books, Rip offs, Shopping Tagged amazon, bargain, classifieds, college, discount, for sale, school, Shopping, student, textbook
By GW on 07/22/2009
I didn’t know Jeff Bridges is a shutterbug. What’s more, he’s good! I learned about this from Phil Coomes’ BBC The Viewfinder blog. Bridges shoots with a Widelux camera, interesting in itself; the camera does extreme wide-angle, panoramic shots. I wonder if that’s the kind of camera the photographer used who did the group picture [...]
Posted in Art and artists, Books, Movies, Nostalgia, Photographers Tagged black and white, celebrity, documentary, jeff bridges, journalism, panorama, photographer, widelux
