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“I am all too curious to see where this all takes us. I can only hope that more people continue to realize the benefits of simplifying our lives and understanding the true power of the old phrase, less is more.”

- John Carey

My thoughts on the Kindle 3 | Nerd Gap:

I would enjoy and appreciate it’s singular purpose - My biggest problem with reading on the iPad is my own distractibility. If I become even the least bit disinterested in what I’m reading, there are a ton of other things that I could do with exactly the same device that were only a couple of taps away (Twitter, Reeder and frickin’ Fruit Ninja, to name a few). The iPad simply provided my dumb ass too many ways to defer what I was reading until after I’d done something else. The Kindle, by contrast, is for reading. That’s it. When I pick up my Kindle, I’m doing so because it’s time to read. Since I’ve only had it for a few hours, I’ve already noticed myself reaching for a button that would show my screenfuls of apps I could putz around with — and I was thrilled to death when I realized that there was no such button. Suspicion #3 = Freaking Confirmed.

A very interesting post.

I’ve been thinking about the Kindle a lot in the past 2 weeks after having tried it. My father in law has one and I must say: the reading experience is better than in the iPad.

This is more so if you take into account the part of the article that I quoted above.

The screen is - in my opinion - better suited for long periods of reading. Yes, you need a light to read it, like a real book, however because this same thing your eyes are not so tired after a while. I noticed in the iPad (which I truly, truly love and it has effectively replaced my laptop) that after reading for 20 min or so my eyes get a little tired and watery: dry eyes. Like when I spent too much time coding: I need constant breaks. Not with the Kindle and, to my surprise, not with the iPhone 4 either! I think the retina display is awesome to read books.

Part of the problem might be the brightness of the screen (the Kindle is not lit) but also I think it might be the glare on the actual glass in front of the screen (something the iPhone 4 doesn’t have and it might be part of why I find it better as well). Maybe the next gen of the iPad will come with a retina display and that would solve the problem, at least for me.

In the meantime I am thinking about the Kindle a lot. I like the single-task purpose of it. And, as the blog mentioned, there’s no clock on the Kindle. Another cool feature.

We’ll see…

I noticed that tumblr reset my customized html theme and all the changes were lost. Fortunately I had a back up and it’s back to its old self.

TUMBLR, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU!

Does Marco leaving means the technical guys left are incompetents? I find it hard to believe. So… What’s wrong with you!?

Seven Steps to Mastering Your Web Browser | Bridging the Nerd Gap:

Implement all seven of these steps and you will be head and shoulders above 85% of the technology professionals I’ve met and 99% of the normal user crowd. As I mentioned, the browser has become our workspace in many cases, so we owe it to ourselves and to the machine that signs our paychecks to squeeze every last drop out of it that we can. Or, at least, try.

I’ve said it before but it bears repeating. Once we find tools that work, we owe it to ourselves to use whatever spare cycles we have to try to optimize and learn those tools more deeply. Especially if they are tools we use for hours every day.