David McAfee
davidmcafee at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 09:03:46 CDT 2012
Look into DVDFab. It will convert DVDs into mp4s in one process. Sent from my Droid phone. On Oct 4, 2012 6:53 AM, "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: > I second William's conclusions about social media. After an initial > interest, I soon removed myself from Facebook and its ilk. I still belong > to LinkedIn but primarily to keep track of what my old friends and > colleagues are doing job-wise. > > I have a cell phone, not a smart phone. My old cell does text but I have > never sent a text message. I have however received a few texts but never > responded. > > I did have a tablet, a beautiful Acer Iconia. I only had it for a week. I > forgot it in a nearby cafe ,a five minute walk from home, and just as I was > about to open the door I suddenly remembered that I'd left it there. I ran > back, to no avail. It was gone. In the week I had it, though, I loved it. > My friend Peter, who has the same one, helped me install some apps he's > found useful. For me its principal virtues were as a replacement for books, > especially technical books, and journals such as the New York Review of > Books. He also made me aware of a pair of programs that enable you to work > with dvd movies, first breaking them into chunks and then converting the > chunks to MP4s, so you can watch the movie on the tablet. First movies I > did that to were the three "The Girl Who..." movies, the original versions > from Swedish TV (6 hours in all). It was really fun to watch them on the > tablet! > > Since I got and lost my Acer, the Nexus 7 has been released. When I have > enough spare change I may get one of those instead. Not sure. I liked the > Acer a lot. > > A. > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >