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Re: kindle

Stuart Parmenter — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:13:54 -0000

John: If you want to avoid the $0.10 fee you will be able to convert your word docs by emailing a service that will email you back a converted version and you can copy that via usb. You can do plain text via usb without going through that process. Mine will be here tomorrow.

Re: Apple Software Update

Stuart Parmenter — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:48:22 -0000

David K.: Mozilla doesn't ship the Google Toolbar with Firefox. Are you downloading the Google Toolbar version of from Google?

Re: Home again

Stuart Parmenter — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:55:10 -0000

ORD is always bad. I refuse to fly through it ever again.

Re: Firefox 3: Color profile support (oh the pretty, pretty colors)

Stuart Parmenter — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:12:53 -0000

Firefox color corrects everything except plugins (plugins need to correct themselves!) Images without a profile are treated as sRGB, css colors are treated as sRGB). Safari only corrects images that have a profile embedded in them so it isn't correcting the background image on the guildwars site.

Re: Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review)

Stuart Parmenter — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:43:57 -0000

I've also had mine for a week or so now and disagree with pretty much all of your points.

1) I don't want to buy paper goods from Amazon through the Kindle. The main reason I bought it was to read things on the Kindle and to unclutter my shelves.

2, 3) Usability sucks. They didn’t think about how people would hold this device.
The usability and UI could certainly be better -- They're obviously limited by by the screen, its refresh rate is slow, but fast enough to do what the device was meant to do. Read. I find the way the device fits in my hands to be great. The device looks a lot better in person than in the photos.

4) It would be great to be able to send electronic goods to someone else. This doesn't seem like a failing of the Kindle but of the Amazon service. Nothing stops Amazon from letting you do this.

5) Social network? Again, more Amazon service things. Do they provide this for actual books? Why do you need this for ebooks?

6) Touch screen? I'm pretty sure I would find a touch screen on this device to be a pain. Given the speed at which the screen can redraw, I suspect you would end up pushing the screen, waiting waiting pushing it again and it wouldn't be a very nice experiment. I think they've done a great job given the screen technology. The screen isn't a LCD.