Months ago, I came across NetGalley and was totally excited. Why? Because you can request books to review before they are published.
Now I love to read and this sounds like a good proposition. So I signed up but had no intentions of reading on the computer. See, I’m a bed time reader and because I’ve been reading so much with the Kindle app, I thought I could put these books on there too.
Unfortunately, no. NetGalley only supports Kindle the device. Not the app. *Sidebar, companies do need to starting giving more accurate info before people sign up and request books.
But I did figure out how to read these DRM protected eBooks on the Kindle. First, I had to install the Aldiko reader on the Android. The following instructions are the same as on Aldiko’s site.
Download the protected .acsm to your Android and using a file explorer like ASTRO, find the file then tap to open. It will download and be automatically added to Aldiko reader. Well that sounded simple enough so I did just that. But alas nothing happened it just won’t download.
Turns out, it was because I was using ESFileExplorer. That app does’nt recognize acsm files. I had to download and install ASTRO and that did the trick. Seems like Aldiko should update their documentation to say use ASTRO. A definitive instead of like ASTRO. Or maybe provide a list of file explorers that has been known to work.
Oh well, I can read those files now. Not optimal. It is still awkward and doesn’t flow properly but I’ll take that over being stuck on my computer.
Photo by Brian Sawyer
Do you like to re-decorate or simply switch things around your home once in a while? The bad thing about that is, it takes time and muscles who may not be so cooperative when you are in the middle of makeover fever. For times like that, perhaps it would be helpful to virtually re-design your home using software. It will let you move things around, change your wall colors to your hearts’ desire without all the hard work and when you do get down to business, you may get better results.
There’s been a lot of talk about Facebook privacy changes recently. I think this is the double edged sword about Facebook. Everything they do and will do in the future will be scrutinized for privacy loopholes. As it should. The most recent change about Places really got people worried. How your friends can ‘check you in’ as being present at a place.
Have you seen WordBloom? It is a really neat tool when you’re doing bible study or want to look up words, related words and where they might also appear on the bible.
On a whim while browsing through Lowes one day, I splurged on a foam soap dispenser from KitchenAid. I’m really not the type to buy anything like that especially something that cost $10. I’m more likely to re-use those dinky plastic dispensers that come with hand soap. But I thought it would save money because it promised to work with a solution of 10% soap to 90% water. Wow. That would be huge long term savings.
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