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What Are the Next Five Books You Want to Read?

May 5, 2011 · 4 comments

My fiance has been in Oklahoma for job training for almost seven weeks now. Next week he’ll finally be done and ready to drive home.

I’ll be flying to Albuquerque late Friday night to meet up with him. Saturday we’ll drive to Las Vegas and Sunday we’ll drive home to the Bay Area.

So it was time to load up my iPad with a variety of books for the Kindle for iPad app.

I picked the books to buy by sorting my Goodreads “to get” list by average rating with the highest rating at the top and working my way down picking books that struck my fancy. This is what I ended up with:

The Gatecrasher by Madeleine Wickham
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Beth Harbison
Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
World of Warcraft: Arthas by Christie Golden (yes, I’m enough of a nerd to want to read books based on a video game)

These books should make for plenty of variety and light reading while waiting in airports, on the plane, and in the car for a good 16 hours of driving.

What are your next five books?

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Link Love: Google Recipe View, iPad 2 Event, and more

February 25, 2011 · 0 comments

A great reminder that you should be reading blogs to improve and add value to your life and not to keep that Google Reader unread count at zero. Don’t Let Blogging (or Reading Blogs) Suck You Dry @BlogHer
Google pulls Recipe View out of the oven @Engadget
Tech Start-Up Exclusively Hires People with Asperger’s Syndrome for Their Technological Prowess @Gizmodo
The Hierarchy of Social Media Marketing @BlogHer
Maybe my cloud iTunes is on the way. Apple tells shareholders North Carolina data center is for iTunes and MobileMe, set to open this spring @Engadget
Finally! I’ll be getting one pretty much no matter what the update entails. Apple iPad Event Confirmed for March 2 @GigaOm
Grab the pilot of my most anticipated mid-season release free for a few more days. [video] Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior – Two of a Kind @Free iTunes Downloads
Know Your Digital Rights – Blog Etiquette @Saving for Someday
Video games and cupcakes are two of my biggest loves. How to Make Angry Birds Cupcakes @BlogHer
Help Nathan Fillion buy Firefly @io9
The Guild picked up for season 5 @WoW Insider (and, by the way, one of the founders of WoW Insider is mentoring at BlogHer|bet ’11)
I’ve played with a bunch of these fitness apps but never really saw the benefit of linking them up to my Twitter or Facebook accounts until reading this post. Getting in Shape? There’s an App for That @Digitized
Pandora Files for IPO @Mashable
Hex values for Crayola colors @Boing Boing
Blizzard’s Goal is to Release Diablo III This Year @Kotaku

So much awesome stuff to share this time around and this is just the highly narrowed down list. I’ve changed how I’m sharing articles I like on Twitter lately and now have it set up through Twitterfeed so that when I click the share button in Google Reader it automatically posts the headline and link to my Twitter account. So basically, if you want even more awesome articles that I’m reading every day, make sure to follow me on Twitter to get the full scoop or on Facebook to weigh in on the best of the best articles between Link Love posts.

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Link Love: Torchwood, Wicked Miniseries, and more

January 14, 2011 · 0 comments

For Christmas I got myself a DirecTV subscription and I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep Starz after my 3 month free promo period but if a new Torchwood season is airing on it, I’m sold (basically Torchwood is the best tv show ever). Torchwood’s new storyline actually tops Children Of Earth in the high-concept sweepstakes @io9
Salma Hayek is planning an 8-hour Wicked miniseries @io9
This means I finally could share my unlimited data between my iPhone and the iPad I will be getting the second the iPad 2 is released. Mobile Hotspot function rumored to come to all carriers with iOS 4.3 @TUAW
Orange alligator discovered @io9
With a gift card I got for Christmas, I finally splurged and bought the $0.99 Angry Birds iPhone game. Play “Angry Birds” — The Board Game @Mashable
A really good metaphor for how the Mac App Store is really changing the software economy. Hunter-Gatherer Societies and the App Store Economy @GigaOm
I got one of these organizers a few months ago and it’s just been sitting on my bookshelf but now I’ve finally got some ideas on how to put it to use. Declutter Your Bag With Gadget Organizers @Unplggd
Get an iTunes or Mac App Store account without a credit card @TUAW
My favorite concept product from CES. Razer Switchblade: 7-inch pocket gaming concept blows our minds six ways from Sunday @Engadget
The Panopticlick tool being talked about in this article is pretty amazing. Based soley on anonymous data each of the computers I use it completely unique. How to avoid online tracking. (Hint: you can’t.) @Boing Boing
Kindle app now supports Project Gutenberg eBooks @TUAW

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Favorite Things 2010: Apple Fan

December 8, 2010 · 0 comments

Over the next couple weeks I’ll be sharing my favorite things from 2010. These items weren’t necessarily new in 2010 but they were either new to me, extra awesome this year, or on my own holiday shopping list or wish list. The lists will be grouped by different personality traits I would use to describe myself so that you can use them as holiday gift inspiration as well.

These are a few of my favorite Apple things from this past year:

27″ Core i7 iMac

After I switched back to a desktop from a laptop, I had a lot more hard drive space, computing power, and USB ports so peripherals made a lot more sense again. This year I stocked up on some new games and accessories.

The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion
The Sims 3: Ambitions
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Fujitsu ScanSnap Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for the Macintosh
USB Extension Cable

iPhone 4

After a few weeks of hassle from AT&T, I did get my iPhone 4. I outfitted it with:

Agent18 Flowervest
Powersupport Crystal Film Set for iPhone 4
Belkin Mini Surge Protector/Dual USB Charger
Car Charger for Apple iPhone

iPad

I didn’t get an iPad this year (yet – here’s crossing my fingers for Christmas) but I do plan on getting myself one when the iPad 2 rolls around in Spring 2011. When it get’s here I plan to outfit it with:

Agent18 Flowervest for iPad

Apps

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Favorite Things 2010: Bookworm

December 1, 2010 · 1 comment

I really dug into more reading this year with the help of Goodreads and the assorted free Kindle apps (I used the iPhone and Mac versions voraciously).

Some of my favorite books this year included: