Slashzerø » admin http://www.slashzero.com Random and Useless Thoughts on Everything Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:58:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kindle for the iPhone http://www.slashzero.com/2009/05/kindle-for-the-iphone/ http://www.slashzero.com/2009/05/kindle-for-the-iphone/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 13:09:48 +0000 admin http://www.slashzero.com/2009/05/kindle-for-the-iphone/ First things first, in the last five or six years I haven’t really been reading many books. Most of my reading has been related to work or blogs. I had downloaded the Stanza app for my iPhone, but only found a few free books that interested me. Out of curiosity I grabbed the kindle app when it became available. I would never have bought the real kindle, and the kindle app is really meant as a companion app to the real thing, but I figured what the heck. As an application it is inferior to stanza, in fact I beleive amazon has since bought stanza. However, the kindle app has one good thing going for it in my opinion, it is east to go to amazon, find a book, send a sample to the iPhone and start reading. At the end of the sample there is a link to complete the purchase.
I have read about 10 books in a month and thouroghly enjoy reading on the phone.
I look forward to better and more features, and I applaud amazon for continuing to come up with more ways to get my money.

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the phone has not helped.

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]]> http://www.slashzero.com/2008/08/more-iphone-problems/feed/ 4 Comedic Role Acting at its Finest http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/comedic-role-acting-at-its-finest/ http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/comedic-role-acting-at-its-finest/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:30:16 +0000 admin http://blog.slashzero.com/?p=11

That crazy Cousin Leo…

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]]> http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/comedic-role-acting-at-its-finest/feed/ 0 You learn something new everyday http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/you-learn-something-new-everyday/ http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/you-learn-something-new-everyday/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:46:55 +0000 admin http://blog.slashzero.com/?p=8 I recently was in a situation where I wanted to copy a file from one server to another.  The problem was that these two servers could not directly connect to each other, the one server that could talk to both endpoints did not have enough diskspace, and the only port open was ssh.  A collegue dropped a bit of knowledge on me.  Both endpoints of an scp command can be remote.  Who knew so this command from server B:

serverB:/ scp user@serverA:/file user@serverC:/file

Actually works.  I love linux. It’s awesome

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]]> http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/you-learn-something-new-everyday/feed/ 0 Contour Surface Sound Compact Car Kit Review http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/contour-surface-sound-compact-car-kit-review/ http://www.slashzero.com/2008/07/contour-surface-sound-compact-car-kit-review/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:01:34 +0000 admin http://blog.slashzero.com/?p=4 My birthday was a few months ago, and my lovely wife, knowing I am a bit of an Apple fanboy, decided to get me the Apple Bluetooth Earpiece for the shiny firstgen IPhone she had gotten for me last Christmas.  I was grateful, but am not a big fan of bluetooth earpieces and after reading the negative reviews decided that I would return it to the Apple Store and exchange it.  Nice Husband huh.

I wasn’t quite sure what to get, so I went to the online apple store and look for things that cost about the same as the bluetooth headset, and I came accoss the Contour SSC Car Kit; and decided I would get it.

In all its glory

In all its glory

On paper it seemed interesting.  Lets just say I was pleasantly suprised.

What this is is basically a flat panel speakerphone.  It fits neatly on my visor, took 5 seconds to pair to my Iphone and just works.  The sound quality is great, people sound clear and even when driving around with my window down no one has problems hearing me.   I have had this thing since mid-May, and granted I don’t speak on the phone a lot (maybe a few minutes every day) I have yet to have to recharge it, I just take for granted that when I flip down the mic boom its just going to work.

Its simple to use, you flip down the mic boom and the device will connect to the paired phone.  There are 2 buttons, a toggle switch for the volume and a pick-up/hang-up button.  The device uses beeps and a female voice to let you know things such as “Handset Connected” and the like.   In fact the device pairs so quickly I leave it in power off mode and when I get a call I turn it on and it picks up right away.

So yeah, not a real technical review, but in you were looking to spend about $100 or if your state now mandates hands-free devices for phones in vehicles this thing gets my vote.

UPDATE:

It is now November 17, and I still yet to have to charge this thing.  I really must say it was a good investment!!!

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