Read online 6 years on!

It has been so long since I last posted that I should be ashamed of myself, but I will post anyway!
My last post was about reading online, and how it helped with reading faster. Well things have changed in 6 years and we now all have kindles, nooks and the likes to help us keep up on our reading.

I particularly like the Nook e-book reader because it is very light and tiny (fits in my smallest purse) and the new one with the back-light seems very promising, although I still have the older version, with no light.

I like my Nook a lot, because I can carry a few books to read and also my newspaper subscriptions. Also, people don't get to see what I am reading which is a bit sad but also cool, because you can read what you want, even something light-hearted and be left alone.

The only thing that I think is a bit of a hassle with e-book readers is that you can't flip back and forth really fast, so for example, for textbooks or books like "Investing for dummies" or "German for dummies" etc, you can fold pages to compare two tables.

That being said, it's a really good deal if you need to travel or want to read on the train because it is much lighter than books and uses so little energy. The e-ink is very good too. Actually it's even better than some books that have really black ink on really white paper in really tiny font. Those make me queasy so I don't want to read them anymore.

The point is: no matter what platform you use, JUST GO READ SOMETHING!!!

read online

remember how i wrote a post about how the internet is better than paper? well i got news for you guys! if you read slowly (like me!) then try to read more stuff online, like newspaper articles etc! i noticed i read faster now because since the web page seems small, the article seems short, whereas really it's like 5 normal book pages or something! you should give it a try!

Volvic mineral water!

OMG!

I just found a site that tells you how to convert your photoshop pictures to CSS!!!!! Isn't it cool????????????????????????

Trying out Qumana

Trying out Qumana, does it work?

Seems like it does, woot!

Thunderbird Tryout!

Since Joel is not posting to give us his opinion about Thunderbird, I decided to try and DL it myself and test it out!
So far it looks like Outlook and Netscape mail at the same time. It seems to be as simple to use, although i am not quite used to the layout yet!
Ah first things, the servers are not responding XD idk how I'm going to send this email from TB to the blog now lol XD
Ok so I installed TB and it automatically imported my contacts and accounts, which is good. But it didn't import the server settings correctly. Hopefully this is fixed, i entered them manually.
Hmm nothing happened, we'll see when i post this, if it really works lol XD
Now... It can sort convos out just like outlooks, maybe with a little more options, but i guess you can create outlook rules and it would work fine!!
So far so good, except for the identity protection thing (to have all the members of the family read their emails in the same TB): outlook lets you manage identities... let me go into the options and check if TB lets you protect your identity with a password... nope i don't see an option for that...

Also,  the get mail button lets you get the new mail, it doesn't let you send your drafts that u meant to send at some point...
I guess it's better than sending them by mistake, so I'll give TB a point for that one! :D :-D

and.... it has a french spellcheck!!!! COOL! so now it has 2 spellchecks!
good point, outlook has only 11 languages, while TB has a sh*tload! and it lets you change the dict in the spellcheck window, while for OL you have to go to the main window, options, spellcheck and change it so that's more annoying.

Ok that's all for now folks!

PS: GRRRR STUPID SERVER PROBLEM *goes to outlook to send the friggn message*

 

Outlook or Thunderbird?

After writing about IE and Ffox, I gotta be rambling about Outlook and Thunderbird! Well, unlike what you might expect, I am still using Outlook! I am just used to it! I know maybe I should use thunderbird. Joel uses it! But I can't! I gotta be using outlook! Not to mention that on outlook, there is an identity password option which I don't think there is on thunderbird. Well of course, like all microsoft products it is prone to viruses and other sh*t but I mean O.O I like outlook *cries* stop bothering me! *hides*

Well, maybe Joel can post about why he likes thunderbird better :D

prime numbers

One of the hardest things in computer science is solving problems where the number of steps required to solve the problem increase with each step.


Let's say you want to find the highest prime number.
Well, start with "1". "1" can only be divided by itself and "1" (which is also "1" in this case). Well, actually, no......... some people say that prime is neither prime nor composite, it is a special entity called "unity".
Now, we go to the next number, "2". "2" can only divided by itself and "1". So, "2" is a prime number. Go to the next number, "3". To test "3", we must divide by "2" to make sure it is not divisible by "2" to check if it is a prime number. And then, for "4", we must divide by "2" and "3".
And for "5", we mus divide by "2", "3", and "4".

So, imagine how difficult it must be (for and human or a computer) to test if a number in ten thousands or millions is prime!

Well, humans and computers have teamed up to create a bear that will calculate prime numbers!
Check it out!!!