Google Books

Now you can download old books from Googles in PDF format.

But here is the best part,check the following picture:

Google has scanned every single page, including the empty ones of old books, then they have inserted these images in PDF files. The result are huge files where is impossible to do a search for a word or sentence; you can't look in a PDF for a word that's part of an image. They should have converted each scanned image into text and then create with that text much smaller PDF files with full search capability.

What a waste of HDD space and resources!

TabletKiosk 7200 Serie Review

TabletPC Corner has published a review of the Founder AKA as TabletKiosk i7200 Serie. One of the thing I like is that they installed Vista in this device without any problem reported. Something that is impossible in eo v7110 due to the BAD DRIVERS PROVIDED BY AMTEK (Remember this name AMTEK - This is the OEM you need to avoid in the future).

Another thing that I liked was the way this person mounted the UMPC in his car. I wonder how he did it. Any ideas?

Note: in current 7110 devices, the WiFi driver does not work in Vista. I know that AmTek does not have anything to do with this driver but they designed these units and they should be working trying to make these devices Vista compatible.

Source: Carrypad.com

More about Brightness in eo

Sometime ago I posted about how annoying was to set the brightness to 25% every time I turned the eo on when it was on battery and how this setting was disabled in this device. Well, I received today an email from TabletKiosk about this issue:

Hello Frank,

Upon review with the Amtek engineering team and the VIA engineering team we have been informed that enabling this function will have negative impact on the overall performance of the system, and this is why it has been disabled at this time.

TabletKiosk
386 Beech Ave, Suite 6
Torrance, CA 90501

What do you think guys? Right now I see how to have the brightness pre set to 50% on battery diminish the battery life a lot. If that option is enabled and an user increase brightness to more than 50% when the unit is on battery he will notice how the battery life will be less than what he had normally and will decrease the brightness to a level where he can get the best/longer battery life. That's for sure. Right now any user can do that - increase brightness when the eo is running on battery - using the Amtek menu so why that option from the TabletPC and Pen settings can not be activated? It does not make any sense to me.

Flickr Tools

One of the best web free services for bloggers is Flickr, a Web site that allows users to host for free pictures.

I found today a blog with a list of tools that can be used to make your life easier with Flickr.

Off Topic: Thanks God and all of you

A quick update. Right now I'm practically in the eye of Tropical Storm Ernesto. Thanks God, it's too week and it did not rain the 10" inches predicted. We got very lucky this time because if this one had would became a hurricane category I like it was predicted it would had hit us right in the middle.

So once again... Thanks God and all of you that have wished me the best.

I love ink

did you notice that I love short notes in ink?

Aero in 32 MB of video memory

Oops! I said 64 MB of RAM and it should be video RAM!

Preorder Vista at Amazon

"Free" music?

Off Topic: Ernesto is coming to Florida

If you live in Florida, especially South Florida you have a few hours to prepare yourself and your property for the Tropical Storm Ernesto.

At this moment it's unsure if Ernesto will land as Tropical Storm or as a Category I Hurricane. The last year I was hit by 2 hurricanes, the last one was Wilma. She left me 2 weeks without electricity. Two weeks in a forced vacation because the company that I work for suffered roof damages and was without electricity too all that time.

I'm not taking any chances this time and I'm a little bit better prepared. But... when you are talking about this monsters you don't know what is going to happen. Let's God be with us.