Geeky Nano

Well this review is going to start as a funny story, for starters, I never actually bought this gadget, I actually won this gadget via a Twitter contest, yes a Twitter contest, and a month later Amazon announce the new Amazon Kinlde DX, but since I didn’t spend a single cent on this gadget I didn’t feel bad about it. There now you why this review is happening.

Lets beginning, and my review of the Amazon Kindle 2 starts like this, I live in Puerto Rico, and… Amazon doesn’t ship the Kindle to Puerto Rico, so I had it ship to my Florida house, and then down to Puerto Rico, almost a 2 months wait till I really got it. Now… buying books on the Kindle or/for the Kindle, another EPIC fail, I needed to setup one-Click buying with my Florida address. and I also need a USA base credit card, Come on! Amazon… I got Sprint back home, no need to make me jump so many hoops.

Om to the device itself, the Amazon Kindle 2 its pretty small and thin, but very very tough, feels firm on the hand. WhisperNet thanks to Sprint in Puerto Rico works great, I got a Edge connection almost everywhere, and some 3G speeds in some places, pretty cool. Book reading is also EPIC, books load fast, switch pages nicely, and the Text-To-Speed is a huge plus. Sound quality is great, and picture quality is perfect. Experimental services like a built-in HTML browser and MP3 play back work, with a few glitches, but Hey! Experimental means Beta.

Bottom line, I won this gadgets, Amazon lowered the price recently, and with my minimal experience with eBook reader, Hell! I’m not a big reader. I think this is the best/fully feature eBook reader on the market right now. If you want a eBook reader, forget the Sony one, go for the Amazon Kindle 2, or the DX version. Go to Amazon.com for more info.

More pictures on my Flickr Amazon Kindle 2 set.

Amazon, Kindle, Review

About four months ago, I bought this Hi-Def Digital TV ready LCD TV, mainly because I needed a new TV for my Blu-Ray ready Sony PS3, and because I really wanted something small for my bedroom.

Trued be told I don’t watch much local or cable TV, nor do I spends tons of hours playing games on the PS3, on that note, I do watch movies from time to time, and the added value of having the fastest Blu-Ray player in the marker, the Sony PS3, made me want to buy some of my favorite movies on Blu-Ray, *wink* *wink* Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy” and The Dark Knight, when talking about games I mostly play Guitar Hero/Rock Band series games, with a occasional MLB game here and there.

Now… since now you have a picture of my typical use for my Vizio HDTV, let me tell you a bit about performance and picture quality. Setting up the Vizio was as easy as snap the stand on, and plugging it in, once on the menu setup is as straight forward as it can be, an auto scan will occur, and it will name out the Digital channels, once the scan is over, you got nothing else to do than watch TV. Manually scanning channel is kinda a pain, pretty slow for the picture to come one while flipping back and forward.

Picture quality is EPIC, most channels look great, live TV sometimes looks kinda grainy. Blu-ray movies on the Vizio look amazing, because of my PS3 and my Vizio set the Blu-Ray format has found a new fan. Since both the Vizio and the PS3 support 1080p, games on the Vizio looked awesome, when I play a MLB game I feel like I’m watching a real game. Sound quality is also amazing. most of the time when I’m watching or playing on my Vizio the sound is set at level 5, yes level 5. level 15 sounds killer, so you don’t want to know how will it sound on sound level 55.

The 19″ Vizio HDTV comes prepare with pre-set preferences, like Wide, Fill, Letter, or Standard size screen, and Games, Movie, and Standard view picture quality. The remote control also comes fully features will all the pre-set preference set with a one button push. Changing channels or volume control sometimes is confusion but with time you get use to it.

Bottom line, when you ask someone to recommend you for a good HDTV LCD, the first thing that comes to everyone’s mind is Vizio, and if you are looking for a budget, small, but fully feature HDTV the Vizio is the way to go.

More pictures on my Flickr Vizio HDTV set.

Blu-ray, Review

It was awesome for me to be part of the First National Puerto Rico Bloggers Convention, organize by fellow #Twitterican @josehernandepr, I made tons of connections, and put the #Twittericans name on the map. @punkylady and @ramcosca did a excellent job tweeting what was going on, and what the Keynote’s where all about, I was event mention on a Keynote by @rafitorres. I also had tons of fun, filming with @mj16 a new tech show for FiumTV, “Propulsion” a join production of Twittericans.net and Fium.tv. Now here comes the fun part, the pictures:

More pictures can be found on my Flickr account, under the PR Blog Con set.

Blogs, Puerto Rico

Well improve-to Tweetups are the best Tweetups, @punkylady wanted to go see Gambit, and so we did with a bunch of #Twittericans. The turn out was a surprice for me since it was a short notice Tweetup, but in the end, as always I was happy to meet a bunch of new #Twittericans. Now come the best part the pictures, Check them out:

More pictures can be found on my Flickr account, on my Mini-Tweetup set.

Movies, TweetUp, Twitter, Twittericans

Check out my t-shirt I had made for my Puerto Ricans Twitter users group, Twittericans.

Thanks to @miguelrios for the awesome design.

Twitter, Twittericans

On Saturday, March 28, 2009, @missreported wanted to do a last minute Twittericans Tweetup, and we decided that we wanted to go to Solid Rock (Rock Climbing facility) in Cupey Alto, Puerto Rico. Since It was a last minute Twittericans Tweetup, only few Twittericans showed up, as usually @punkylady showed up, and also @araziel20, but we did get to add a n00b to the Twittericans Tweetup experience, enter @nopatria, he was the n00b, awesome and fun guy. The funny this about this Twittericans Tweetup is that the person who had the idea for the last minute Twittericans mini-Tweetup never showed, hence @missreported.

Here are some picture’s and a video of me “Fake” rock climbing.

More picture can be found on my Twittericans Solid Rock Mini-Tweetup Flickr set.

MeetUp, Puerto Rico, TweetUp, Twitter, Twittericans

This is what geeky girls do for geeky boys, I luv u too @mj16.

Games, Guitar Hero, MeetUp, Puerto Rico, TweetUp, Twitter, Twittericans, YouTube

Guitar Hero, PS3, Qik, Sony

Saturday, March 21, 2009, EPIC Twittericans Tweetup in Barranquitas, Vaca Brava Rest. first off we got lost, 15 minutes before arriving the restaurant, we followed @miguelrios Hato Rey route to Vaca Brava Rest. but since the Google Maps are almost 4 years old, some roads weren’t found on the iPhone 3G GPS. Twittericans Tweetup n00b were @miguelrios (local from Barranquitas), @velvetyink and @RicanLeStat.

More pictures on my Flickr Tweetup set.

MeetUp, Puerto Rico, TweetUp, Twitter, Twittericans

In all this excitement I forgot to post a picture I took of my first Netflix movie arrival, The Fifth Element in Blu-ray. I need to take full advantage of my Sony PS3 Blu-ray playback capabilities, something Microsoft Xbox 360 owners don’t have, I must mention.

Blu-ray, Movies, Netflix, PS3