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02 Jun, 2016
Great Pencil Sharpener
5 of 5 found this helpful I have owned this sharpener for over five years and it is still going strong. I use it for my colored pencil drawings, and my four elementary school-age children use it for their pencils, so it gets a lot of use.
One of the most enjoyable features is the large, clear transparent holder for shavings. You don't have to empty it very often, and you can see exactly how full or empty the shavings holder is at any time. The holder pulls out from the front, so it's really easy to empty when you do have to do so. Overall, the design of the item is aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. Like an old friend, it's got Personality! It also adjusts for pencils of various diameters; my kids have some fat, novelty pencils that the X-acto sharpens well, but these pencils wouldn't fit into other models at all.
There are a few minor imperfections. For one, I find it just a bit on the loud side. I also have a Sony electric sharpener and that, by comparison, is quieter. In addition, this sharpener shapes the pencil point into a rather short cone. The advantage of producing this shape is that if you're using colored pencils that are prone to breaking, there is less risk of the point breaking because there is less exposed core not surrounded by wood casing. By contrast, my Sony sharpener shapes the point into a more slender, elongated point which from a technical perspective, is probably better for fine pencil work because you don't have to sharpen a long, slender point as often.
After five years of fairly heavy usage, my X-acto School Pro electric pencil sharpener is still putting good, sharp points on my pencils and it's very rare for a point to break in the act of being sharpened. I would recommend it to anyone who does a lot of sharpening, and/or wants a large holder for shavings that doesn't have to be emptied frequently.
30 Dec, 2009
Garmin - Nuvi 255W
65 of 67 found this helpful The good: The Garmin Nuvi 255W features a large touch screen and an easy-to-understand interface. Start-up, destination entry, and trip routing and rerouting times are slightly faster than the competition. "Where am I?" feature is very useful for emergencies. Text-to-speech reads street and points of interest names aloud. All in all very fast - faster than competition.
The bad: The Nuvi 255W's feature set is rather limited. Mounting cradle is bulkier than competing models and not as portable. But those are minor issues.
The bottom line: As entry-level GPS navigators go, the Garmin Nuvi 255W is still one of the best choices available for anyone who wants speedy performance without breaking the bank. I love mine.
01 Dec, 2015
One of the best tablets you can buy - as good as an iPad and I've had both.
5 of 5 found this helpful I've been using a XOOM for about a month or so after experiencing a couple of other Honeycomb tablets and I had the opportunity to play around with the latest iPad for a weekend. I thought I'd say this because the XOOM is the tablet I am going to keep - not an easy thing because there are 3 kids around who'd run and hide with it every time they got an opportunity. I am not saying that the XOOM is perfect, far from it - and I will discuss its imperfections shortly - but, as tablets go it met and it occasionally exceeded my expectations more often than the other brands I tried. The disappointments were few and non-essential.
After a couple of months with tablets I can say that using one CAN be a fun and rewarding experience IF one's expectations are realistic therefore...
Touch is fun but it's not a mouse. Consider that your index finger is way bigger than the mouse pointer's 'point' and the tablet screen is much smaller. Touch works better than mouse in some instances like in pinch-zoom and scrolling but not in most instances.
Of the 'hundreds of thousands' there are not a lot of 'serious' or full-featured apps at this time at least when it comes to 'creating' content as opposed to playing/consuming it. Tablets are limited by their specific interfaces and by their horsepower even though they do come with features (GPS, compass, thermometer, barometer) not commonly found in PCs. For example, the official 'Adobe Photoshop Express' I downloaded offers less than 1% of what you are likely to find in the 'real' Photoshop. It's ingeniously adapted to 'touch' but if you really wanted to edit your pics, you'd probably pick the real thing.
WHY A TABLET
And yet tablets are magical and I'm having more fun with mine. And here's why:
The XOOM sits to the left of my keyboard in the morning, playing the morning news shows while I'm having breakfast and reading my email.
There is this app that has over a thousand old movies and I often play one at lunch.
I'm making phone calls and video calls. My PC and my laptop can do that too but I now prefer to do my calls on the tablet while the PC does what PCs do best - crunch spreadsheet numbers, help me write and edit long documents and edit pictures and video to near-perfection.
At night, me and the kids learn about the stars, thanks to one free app that takes advantage of the tablet's built-in GPS and compass, showing the stars and constellations exactly as we see them and showing their names.
My 8 yr. old daughter finds playing math games with a stylus a lot more fun than pencil and paper or PC-based math drills.
There is an enormous amount of mostly-free games that kids like to play on the XOOM, many of them mind-bending puzzles which should be good for them.
XOOM vs. THE OTHERS
Let me begin with what I 'like':
It's Wi-Fi and it's not 3G or 4G. In other words I pay less, I don't worry about 'usage' and I'm free to use my tablet as I please. I thought I'd mentioned that because every single listing in Amazon's app store comes with the disclaimer stating that "AT&T has enabled purchases from the Amazon Appstore for some devices". And that's a shame - being at the mercy of someone you actually pay to provide a service not to boss you around. AT&T has zero control over my Wi-Fi XOOM.
It's an Android and that means freedom or at least more freedom than the iWorld. I can download and run anything I want and nobody can stop me from doing so. Thumbs up!