Kindle 2.0 Review

I have been using kindle 2.0 for a about 6 months now. I should be able to give descent review on what i really about it. I am not really a reader. I hoped i would start reading more books after i got kindle 2.0. I still don't read that many books but i have read a few since i got my kindle.

The things i like about kindle

1. its too easy to buy a book takes less than 5 mins to download your book.

2. Its perfect for books without diagrams or flow charts.

3. You can take notes and highlight paragraphs

4. dictionary is good feature to have. since my English vocabulary is not great it helps a lot.

Issues

1. If you have issues with credit card on file you need to get it fixed within 5 days or else your order will be cancelled . I couldn't go back after 5 days and see my cancelled orders and reorder them. I might have overlooked the links but it is confusing.

2. I cant download books from other formats.

3. There is no concept of page number in kindle. instead you have locations. It makes no sense whatsoever. if you are planning to use kindle for college forget about it. You have no way to related a page from the hard copy to the kindle version.

4. Tables and diagrams looks little blurred and very hard to read or i should say impossible to read.

6. Even thought you can highlight and take notes i am not sure if i can export my comments and notes.

7. I don't think i will pay 10$ to read a free blog. I can understand paying for wall street journal not for reading blogs.

8. Cant share my books with friends

9. Read the Book. I initially liked the idea of the book being read tome instead of me reading it. My it sounds very funny cant listen to it for more than 5 mins it gets very annoying plus it too fast you cant really slow the speed of narration.

What should amazon do?

1. Open up ebooks to other devices so they can concentrate on selling books rather than on kindle.

in the long term amazon will make more money from e selling ebooks than selling the reader...

2. fix pages if they plan to enter the college students market.

3. make their format open source

4. Support epub format

I think its going to take another 2 years for this market to mature ...

Microsoft Security Essential

I have been using MSE for the last month or so. This is the best security software i have used.
Its very simple and it doesn't block other programs and the ui is defiantly very simple and very intuitive. I
I have installed Norton on some of my computers almost always i notice my computer slows down. It bring Internet explorer to halt. So far with MSE i haven't experienced any of that. I have installed mse on about 4 computers so far. I haven't had any problems whatsoever. i think it uses the least resources of all the antivirus products in the market.

best thing is its free and only their 1st version. I am sure in the next 6 months if microsoft keeps improving this product they should be able to compete with Norton and mccafe.

Formating Mail Merge fields in Word

we recently created a mail merge interface with Ms word and our application using .net. The problem with doing the mail merge is it removes all the formating from the data that is getting merged. So you need to manually apply all the formating to these codes.

I needed to convert my values to dollarformat i pressed alt f9 which shows all the merge codes in your document and then add the following code \# $#,###.00

{MERGEFIELD Balance_Due \# $#,###.00 \* MERGEFORMAT}

Restarting Coldfusion Mail Service

inorder to restart coldfusion mail service without restarting coldfusion server use
coldfusion.service.servicefactory

no of files in a directory

ls wc -l
gives you the number of files in a directory.