Archive for October, 2010
A Genuine, True Classic. Once you read it again, you realize what a profound effect it had on American literature at the time. What a tragedy that Salinger went into seclusion and deprived the world (except his family) of his talent. Hopefully a family member will publish his work soon. The Catcher in the Rye
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Best e-book reader by far. It is very useful for spanish users the feature of changing the standard dictionary to an english-spanish one. I strongly recommend Merriam-Webster’s Spanish-English Translation Dictionary, available at amazon. It integrates perfect in Kindle and it’s great when you move the cursor to a unknown word and have a pop-up with the traslation.
Text to speech feature is very useful for spanish users too. Still must improve a lot because the pronunciation is not natural but helps a lot.
The device is light, the navigation easy and the battery lasts a week. If you want to check for new books at amazon you just connect for free.
About experimental features: web browser (for pages that are mainly text) is very useful (you finish your book and check your favorite newspaper) and mp3 player is nice too but every sound file reduces your 1.5Gb of space for e-books and battery makes a lot of extra work.
Brilliant device.
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Bought this product for my son who competes in triathlons. He loves it and uses it each time he trains and competes. He is constantly thanking me and telling me how much he enjoys using it. He is able to show me his routes while we chat on Skype and he can share his training and competition information with his friends on Facebook. Two thumbs up for this item!
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I think this is an ideal purchase for the iPod Touch 4G. No problems with docking or snapping the shell on and off. Great quality and price!
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This is a very nice product, especially for the reduced price. I found only 1 snag, but critical to me. The way it counts calories is very inconsistent. It needs to know which sport you are doing and seems to relie on the GPS function. OK, I do some of my training in the gym on static machines. Hey, I used no calories today! OK, I know calorie counting is a very vague occupation for HRMs, but if you use the HR, weight, age etc (like Polar) of a person it gives a more consistant count so you can work out if you are doing too much/little training over a period of time and gives a comparison of effort etc, this is particularly useful if you are a cross trainer like me, hill run, cycling, swimming, gym.
The customer services were helpful but agreed with my problem advising me of models ( presume newer) that used the HR etc to calculate calories. So I’m afraid my model is going back and I’ll look for one that counts calories better. Might have to return to Polar, but after years of struggling with the wearlink strap I wanted to try something new.
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Reasonably easy to set up. Brush action was OK. On the first use and after the first room and half way down a hallway, the sprayer failed and the suction stopped. The certified repair shop said that two different assemblies failed. I didn’t have it repaired; I sent it back and bought a Royal that was recommended by the retailer and had 3 years factory warranty (expanded to 4 by the retailer), not 1 or 2.
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Paired with plugs I was able to fix several CAT 5 cables in minutes on my first try. Good instructions on the back of the packaging.
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Please do not buy this watch. I had problems with it immediately. I followed the instructions exactly and nothing worked. So I googled “Garmin Forerunner 305 does not work” and it seems like everyone who bought the watch had the same issue. (I think Garmin must be the ones giving this watch “fake” good reviews) Several people called Garmin support and were told to reset the watch. Sometimes this worked but people still had issues with the watch randomly turning off even when fully charged. The watch I bought malfunctioned several different times buzzing continuously and the screen was frozen. I tried the “soft” and “hard” resets and neither worked. The watch would sometimes turn on and then none of the buttons worked. Then it would randomly turn off again. The people were posting that the “hard” reset button worked for them every time the watch malfunctioned but that by doing this it erased all the memory. I would not want my watch to constantly malfunction and then in order to fix it, you have to erase everything. The purpose of the watch is to track your progress. Some people also were told by Garmin they needed to download an upgrade in order for the watch to work properly. (By the way, there are no instructions in the box regarding any of this and there is nothing in the box that tells you about resetting the watch or what to do if it is not functioning properly) So anyways, I can’t even download the upgrade because the watch will not connect to the computer at all. You also cannot install the CD unless the watch is connected. As you can tell I am very frustrated with this watch and I just bought it yesterday brand new from Best Buy and I will be returning it. I am very disappointed though because I am training to run a marathon. I was looking forward to some fun trail runs and then tracking it with the watch. If anyone has any other fitness/GPS watch suggestions I would like to know of one that actually functions properly. My email is sstcat1@hotmail.com. Than
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I love the game system, and have had no problems at all with it. I have one gripe with Nintendo though, and this is a warning to anyone new to the system (like me): the instructions are useless. I figured out more just by trial and error than by using the booklet that came with the system. Not a big deal, just a warning. Also, don’t for a minute believe amazon on the delivery time-they are full of it. I ordered it with basic shipping, I wasn’t in a hurry, HOWEVER, waiting 5 business days just to fulfill my order is ridiculous. I can guarantee that if I paid for the express shipping, I wouldn’t have received it by the time they guaranteed. How do I know this? Because once packed, it only took 3 days to ship, which has never happened before. A big deal? maybe not, but I wnated to warn anyone who was buying this as a gift.
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Great buy! This cable costed me less than $3, and to me it delivers the very same quality as the my prior expensive $50 cable. Don’t spend more money for a cable just for a brand name!
Since HDMI cables are digital, as long as it meets the specification you want (in this case, the HDMI standard), I don’t see how paying a lot of money for a brand could make any difference in quality (it’s all digital, i.e.: zeros and ones).
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