New Life For An Old Gadget
About three years ago I was an early buyer of a Nokia 770. It is an "Internet Tablet." Now it is said "Never buy the first of anything" and to some extent this is true but the "Maemo" platform was very appealing. From the start the device could wirelessly connect to the internet, browse the web and fetch email. Some useful applications began to appear categorized into what you might expect... Games, Office, Multimedia and etc. Personally, although I downloaded a few games and office apps, I found the multimedia apps the most useful. This gadget is one heck of an mp3 player, and plays video clips as well. An app I am particulary fond of is FBReader. Yes, you can read ebooks in several popular formats. I have a reference book which is in .chm format. I was using a Firefox extension to read this volume but that extension stopped working when I upgraded to Firefox 3 (Ubuntu Hardy). Well, I could have done a downgrade to Firefox 2, but why not have the book in ...