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Help! Stop me before I download again!
Last week I downloaded the ∩ook for PC app to my HP Mini laptop. That was OK. I could access my ∩ook library from the Mini. Groovy.
But today, I downloaded the Kindle app for PC to my HP Mini laptop. Then I immediately downloaded an ebook for Kindle. I did this because the Kindle (Amazon) price was cheaper (about 60% cheaper) than the ∩ook (Barnes & Noble) price.
My tiny, 4'11" Scotch-Irish grandmother would be proud of the savings. That is, until the bill comes due at the end of the month!
I have already exceeded last month's purchases.
I am doomed!
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Showing posts with label mini-laptops. Show all posts
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Confession Is Good for the Soul
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Yes, my gentle snowflakes, I have a confession--and God knows, my soul can use all the help it can get.
One more Christmas present to myself. Since I have managed to set up wifi, I wanted more than just my ∩ook to use it. All that capability just called out for more attention. And nature does abhor a vacuum.
So, I bought myself a mini laptop--Hewlett Packard. An HP Mini 210-2000 CTO PC, to be precise. I think I like it. I picked the HP largely because of the keyboard. It has really nice tactility. And large keys. The screen is very adequate--just takes a lot more scrolling to read the articles that come over my rss feed.
The only thing I would wish for is MORE SPEED! And that has been my cry with every computer I have ever owned--ever, since 1978!
The HP came with Windows7. That is proving to be a little challenge--switching back and forth from XP to 7, that is the challenge. I can work with Windows7 and I can work with Windows-XP. It is switching back and forth from one to the other that boggles my old, not-so-limber brain. But I will master it, hopefully. And the mastery should help my brain stay young--that's what the research is saying, "Use it or lose it."
I can take it to bed with me and check my email one last time. I can look at Twitter for that last tweet of the night. I can check Facebook to see what my grandkids are up to in the wee small hours of the morning. [Caught the posted cell-photos of one grandson at a school dance. I would never have seen that without facebook. :) Candid pictures of him at a dance? Said photos taken by a friend of his? Never would have seen them. ]
OK, enough confession. Soon you will know all my secrets and vulnerabilities. There will be no more mystery woman behind the blog.
Have a Happy New Year!
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Yes, my gentle snowflakes, I have a confession--and God knows, my soul can use all the help it can get.
One more Christmas present to myself. Since I have managed to set up wifi, I wanted more than just my ∩ook to use it. All that capability just called out for more attention. And nature does abhor a vacuum.
So, I bought myself a mini laptop--Hewlett Packard. An HP Mini 210-2000 CTO PC, to be precise. I think I like it. I picked the HP largely because of the keyboard. It has really nice tactility. And large keys. The screen is very adequate--just takes a lot more scrolling to read the articles that come over my rss feed.
The only thing I would wish for is MORE SPEED! And that has been my cry with every computer I have ever owned--ever, since 1978!
The HP came with Windows7. That is proving to be a little challenge--switching back and forth from XP to 7, that is the challenge. I can work with Windows7 and I can work with Windows-XP. It is switching back and forth from one to the other that boggles my old, not-so-limber brain. But I will master it, hopefully. And the mastery should help my brain stay young--that's what the research is saying, "Use it or lose it."I can take it to bed with me and check my email one last time. I can look at Twitter for that last tweet of the night. I can check Facebook to see what my grandkids are up to in the wee small hours of the morning. [Caught the posted cell-photos of one grandson at a school dance. I would never have seen that without facebook. :) Candid pictures of him at a dance? Said photos taken by a friend of his? Never would have seen them. ]
OK, enough confession. Soon you will know all my secrets and vulnerabilities. There will be no more mystery woman behind the blog.
Have a Happy New Year!
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Monday, March 15, 2010
The Problem With Textbooks
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Thank God it is the Texans making fools of themselves--keeps the Nation's eyes off Oklahoma for a while.
The problem, of course, is with the Conservative view-point being crammed into the social studies, history and economics textbooks.
Answer: Instead of physical text books, purchase the eDGe, a 2-screen e-reader or even laptops (maybe minis), one for each student. Buy as many as are needed for any state and the price should fall through the floor. After all, newspapers and novels are moving to electronic format, why not textbooks? Bonus: The students can not physically write in the "e-books" and thereby render ordinary paper books unusable. It happens.
Next, say, New York should tell the publishers that it will only pay for the electronic version of the textbooks WITH the offensive passages (read Phyllis Schlafly) left out and Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Alva Edison put back in. This should not be a problem in an electronic format.
The electronic versions will be priced at about 40% of standard print versions--no paper, no binding, minimal shipping. (Added bonus: less paper means fewer trees sacrificed, less toxic processing of the paper, less toxic glues used in the processing of the cardboard covers, less money flowing off-shore--as I am sure text books are no longer printed and bound in this country.)
Or look to some enterprising, innovative, intelligent instructor with some practical experience who has a good text book that could not pass the Texas Board of Education. He or She will be pleased to see her/his work "published" and educating students. It was probably written in an electronic format to begin with: one less step in the process removed.
Macmillan and DynamicBooks already offer interactive textbooks. Macmillan even allows college professors (why not all instructors, no matter what grade?) to alter the content without prior permission.
This could get interesting.
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Thank God it is the Texans making fools of themselves--keeps the Nation's eyes off Oklahoma for a while.
The problem, of course, is with the Conservative view-point being crammed into the social studies, history and economics textbooks.
Answer: Instead of physical text books, purchase the eDGe, a 2-screen e-reader or even laptops (maybe minis), one for each student. Buy as many as are needed for any state and the price should fall through the floor. After all, newspapers and novels are moving to electronic format, why not textbooks? Bonus: The students can not physically write in the "e-books" and thereby render ordinary paper books unusable. It happens.
Next, say, New York should tell the publishers that it will only pay for the electronic version of the textbooks WITH the offensive passages (read Phyllis Schlafly) left out and Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Alva Edison put back in. This should not be a problem in an electronic format.
The electronic versions will be priced at about 40% of standard print versions--no paper, no binding, minimal shipping. (Added bonus: less paper means fewer trees sacrificed, less toxic processing of the paper, less toxic glues used in the processing of the cardboard covers, less money flowing off-shore--as I am sure text books are no longer printed and bound in this country.)
Or look to some enterprising, innovative, intelligent instructor with some practical experience who has a good text book that could not pass the Texas Board of Education. He or She will be pleased to see her/his work "published" and educating students. It was probably written in an electronic format to begin with: one less step in the process removed.
Macmillan and DynamicBooks already offer interactive textbooks. Macmillan even allows college professors (why not all instructors, no matter what grade?) to alter the content without prior permission.
This could get interesting.
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