I got my kindle fire 1st gen for Christmas last year and love it other than some annoying battery problems it has been great but I cant help but think “what am I missing with the new software?” Well I can tell you that I’m missing an update which I do not appreciate. I mean the look and feel is one reason I bought this but another reason was I thought it would be SUPPORTED. I don’t mind if the new one gets a camera I am not buying a new one every year because it is not economical I already bought two kindles within two years so that I could have a color screen so why don’t they just at least update us to the latest version so that we aren’t living with paperweights in a month because no software is supported anymore. Please amazon, I believe you value your customers so please if your not going to give us the latest version at least give us a trade in program where we can get half price or something just don’t leave us out in the dust please!
Proudly posted from my kindle fire first gen (not so proud to be on 6.3.1 still)

I decided to preorder an ouya that will be coming in early or late 2013 I think but I think it will be worth the wait because of the design and portability. most people might say right away: “thats not portable!” but if you have a tv at your destination it is much more portable than the 360 or any other system at the moment, the last time I moved my xbox I needed 2 bags one to put the xbox and all the cords and another to put my computer in for looking stuff up. To some people it might  not seem like a hassle to carry it to a friends house for a lan party but when your friend also wants computer help it gets annoying. But enough about the size it also runs the Android operating system and is open for development of the system and games (which would get you banned from xbox live) this will bring alot of cheaters to the table but also make a far reaching community to help with making it better and a hacker community to play with everything that they can. Really what they are doing is bringing open source efficiency to your tv so it is a great Idea!

I’m 19 years old and have almost nothing to regret because I have got decent grades in school and now have a job and am going to college  in California but food is my regret. My mom, Grandma and Great Aunt all have Diabetes but I have still eaten things I like all my life thus far and found out today that I have High blood Pressure, though the one you normally look at is in normal limits my other is way too high.

There are other causes of high blood pressure but I am fairly sure that it has to be this one because I’ve been eating crappy food for way too long and though I enjoy that crappy food (not really but it is convenient) I am going to try to undo this mess by eating better and working out more.

I love film, but why is digital better to most people? The answer can be that it’s a cheap hobby in digital form and quite the opposite with film. To get that picture I’ve used 3 rolls of film, almost 100 sheets of paper, this one I just scanned into the computer but it is more fun to use the enlarger.

I also can say that even though the supplies are expensive some of the equippment is cheap such as an SLR camera, I’ve bought 4 and all for under $20 each! It is easier to use and get a fairly good image out of a digital camera but it is so much of a hands off process. With digital you plug it into your computer and have great images to start while with film you have to try again and again until you get a perfect picture print on Rc paper, or you could always scan negatives into your computer in half the time.

Technology makes it easier to do things like photography and video editing but it isn’t always the best way to do it and in the same way even though a tablet is smaller and easier it does not mean that they are better than a laptop for everything, for instance, I use my laptop to edit images still. So think on this, what technologies that were made in our time will be considered out of date but still be used by students to learn how to use the new technology better?

I like multitasking on my computer, phone, and even my tablet but is it really helpful in real life? I do my math homework while I watch TV, until I get distracted, and have done well up until college. My first math class is not doing so well for me so I tried studying in the library but my kindle called to me from my backpack and I ended up watching hulu plus for 2 hours! Then Netflix for longer! So I need to figure put a new way of studying and leaving my kindle at home will still leave me tempted by my phone. Any ideas?

I wish that I could say that I had already ordered one but they completely sold out before I even got a look at their selling site. They are “for sale” at Element 14 but the problem is they had so many orders that they ran out of stock!I did however, just today order one that will arrive this summer for a summer of code (I’m a geek, I want to learn coding over the summer) and also in time for some other things like my dads birthday. I might pass it along to him after I get it set up so that he can use it for his radio stuff since he is into ham radio and this is a perfect device since it can run off of AAs if he needed it to. Now, the cool thing about them is that they are small but that is also annoying because if you were to try making a case for it the ports are all over the map! So, why make it so hard to case? Well they made it mostly for cost and size, when you try to make a smaller computer one thing you have to consider is less room for connectors. The first prototype build was much smaller than the current one but it only had a HDMI and a usb port meaning that it was very limited in attachments and many people wouldn’t have much to do with it because without wifi and no ethernet you would have to buy a usb wireless card, which I’m not sure could even be powered by the device. So they changed it to support older tv’s for poorer families by putting an RCA output and added an ethernet port for functionality. This might be a good system in your car for a dash entertainment system or in your house as your child’s computer so that there is almost no way they can break it by loading software onto it and it is a cheap computer, about $44 with shipping, so it is a good computer to practice. If you get model B you get more functionality but some of you might just want a base model A for playing around with. I got the model B because I want to try using it as a desktop for a couple of weeks and that is the  best way to do it but they have updated that both have the same processing power and the main difference are the ports available so that means that if you don’t ever use or intend to use and ethernet port you might be better getting the model A with a USB hub and a USB wifi adaptor.

I hope you found me amusing talking about the Rasberry Pi hopefully they will send it before it said it would ship.

Some people might think I’m making a technological reference when I say the fourth arrow and they are correct. The fourth arrow, as I see it, is the up arrow and in most video games that is for moving forward. Since I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life this will probably include a wide variety of videos and random posts. While a lot of them will most likely be related to technology in some way there is much more than that so thank you to anyone who wants to read about this in my new blog.

A truck that works after 20 years. My computer is 3 years old and falling apart, my kindle fire is barely a month old and the plug is loose because my cats knocked it onto the floor while it was charging so what lasts 20 years?

I really thought that I would already be up to my neck in debt to my parents when I wanted to buy this truck but the only repair I have had on it was a faulty sensor and it barely cost me! My computer has cost me $50 in 3 years with the replacement of a hard drive, this truck so far has cost $2,280 to get taken care of, with the Operating System and the constant problems my laptop has not only cost me over a thousand dollars but also valuable time that I used to repair it and use it! A car starts in a few seconds while a computer takes at least 8 seconds (mine significantly longer) to start then people have to wait for the WIFI to connect and the page to load! I wish that my computer was as simple as my truck to use but to me its a necessity to learn anything I can about my computer to be able to fix it or even just use it for homework.

I have never not known how to use my computer. Since the Graphical User Interface make it so easy to use anything on a modern computer there is almost nothing to learn, just press the on button, but if it breaks it costs an arm and a leg to repair it. Staples said that the hard drive would cost $170 to repair and that did not include changing the data and installing the software I wanted. I ended up paying around $50 on Newegg and switching out the hard drives in a couple of minutes after transferring my data, through a flash drive install of linux, to an external hard drive. The longest part of the process was re-installing Windows. Would I have paid to avoid the headache of installing Windows? NO! That was the easiest part and afterwards I realized that I didn’t want windows anyway and switched to Ubuntu.

My old truck is nothing like a computer, it’s fast, easy to use and find problems and it has windows in it while I try to leave windows off of my computer. I think that the only real problem with this truck is, where do I go next?

Yesterday I took a long bike ride from my friends house to school, some people see it as relaxing while I see it as exercise. I’m trying to lose weight and one of the ways to do that is to exercise and live an “active” lifestyle. Since I haven’t actually exercised daily since  was on the swim team in high school 2 years ago I need to get into doing it again. an “active” lifestyle is not really my thing though, as you can see by most of my posts about computers. I am making a small change and that is taking after my favorite blogger on rowdykittens.com and my friend who rides his bike to school nearly every day. I’m going to start riding my bike on Fridays to school from my friends house and hopefully will make other changes too.