It always takes me multiple tries to get it to go backwards (I either don't go far enough to the left, or I go so far that I miss and hit the edge). I've tried using swiping instead, but it just isn't smooth and since I often hold my kindle a bit at an angle I occasionally skip forward or back a chapter instead, which is obnoxious. I often also click to go to the next page too close to the menu bar, which requires me to move my hand position, and tap two more times to actually get to the next page, and I usually accidentally click an extra time out of frustration. And when I tried to use my old bath-reading method (put it in a ziploc bag), either the ziploc bag turns pages or it doesn't detect my touch no matter how hard I push.

So...yeah. I don't like it. Physical buttons for the win. I actually thought the very first gen kindle, which was incredibly ugly in many ways, was the best for page turning because it had a HUGE page-turn button on the right that was quite easy to press (so easy that it annoyed some people, but not me.)

We also recently discovered that there's no quick way to skip to the next or previous bookmark: you have to actually open the Notes and Marks file every time. I think this is probably true in the regular kindle too, but there was a keyboard shortcut for it on the Kindle Keyboard. (shift-next-page, I believe).

I actually thought the very first gen kindle, which was incredibly ugly in many ways, was the best for page turning because it had a HUGE page-turn button on the right that was quite easy to press (so easy that it annoyed some people, but not me.)

I have a 3rd Gen Kindle (the graphite one, I think it's called Kindle Keyboard now?) and I *love* the page turn buttons. They're right where my thumbs want to be anyway, but not so sensitive that I press them by accident (which was an issue I did have with the 1st gen). DH has a Kindle Touch and I don't find it as comfortable, even if the screen is much nicer.

I like the buttons on my old Nook better than the buttons on my new one, but screen tapping is *almost* fine. I've configured the buttons so that the top ones turn back a page and the bottom ones on either side move forward. I accept that that wouldn't make sense on a touch screen, but I resent having move my hand or use the right to get to the next page.

Which, you know, is a gripe born of excessive spoilage.

My roommate just got a new (used) printer, and this morning I set it up connected to my AirPort Express via USB. I opened up the AddPrinter utility, it saw the new printer just fine, I clicked add, it was added, I printed. Easy-peasy.

My roommate and I both have Macbooks. Mine's a pro, his is not. We're both running 10.5.8. His computer cannot see the new printer.

I am utterly baffled. I do not understand why his computer can't see the printer and mine can.

Anybody got any clues at all?

It could be you had the drivers (generic or specific) loaded, and roomy doesn't.

Even without the drivers, shouldn't the printer be visible on the network? That's the part that makes no sense to me.

New development this morning, and I have to run off to work, so I can't fix it right now, but hopefully this will help someone think of something.

I ran AirPort Utility on roomie's computer, and it cannot see our AirPort Express. You know, the one he uses all the time (and is using RIGHT NOW) to connect to the Internet. WTF????

Restart his computer? Full shutdown, wait a few, reboot. It clears a surprising amount of problems.

It's sounding like something is wrong with Bonjour on his machine.

Greetings Tech folk, I need some advice about moving forward in the world of Apple.

I haven't been paying attention to the changes in product lines until last night when I began trying to put together some reasonably priced equipment to produce a video blog.

Thanks to NoiseDesign's good advice years ago, I have a Blue Snowball mic...so I'm set there.

The problem is, my current mac is a ppc and an increasing burden in terms of not being able to upgrade.

I settled on a flip ultra HD for the camera, and then realized that I can't run Screenflow on this computer.

Maybe it is finally time to get the mini I've been lusting after for ages.

BUT, now I see that the mini no longer has a dvd drive. This is a travesty, given that I have not owned a tv for 15 years.

Question: Is there an outlet for older minis that you could recommend? (I've tried smalldog, amazon, B+H, cowboom, overstock, bizrate)

I'm pretty sure I can cobble together a decent lighting set up from stuff at my local hardware store, but that won't matter much if I can't shoot or edit!

All thoughts gratefully accepted.