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Yep, I’ve been away for a while again…. not that I haven’t been busy. I’ve been up to my eyeballs ( and beyond ) in work. It would seem all that volunteer work I’ve been doing for some of the local websites in town has turned into a demand for businesses to update/manage/create their websites…. Hey I’ve got toy money again! Now if I only had the time to play with my toys…. let alone write about them !

So as you can no doubt tell by the post title, I’ve fallen down the Rabbit Hole. And while I’ve never been a fanboy of Microsoft, or Apple. I am kinda falling into a trance with what Apple has done, how well they have done and where they are going. To the point that I have their iDisk running on my Ubuntu desktop…. Wow. Just where will this lead to next?!

It all started with my daughters iPhone, it broke on her and she had to send it away for repairs ( at no cost to her I might add. ) Since it was gone for a while she started to reuse her old Blackberry and it quickly reminded her of what she liked about it, and what she didn’t like about her iPhone. Don’t get me wrong, she likes the iPhone, but not the fact that her partner and her kids like it more ( all the apps and games on it. ) To the point that it was either in “their” hands all the time, or being charged! The Blackberry worked very well as a phone, email, text messages and camera…. but no games for the kiddies…. So when she got her iPhone back she decided to stick with Blackberry.

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So, just in case you weren’t aware – Apple and the amazing Steve Jobs, have just announced the new iPad 2. And for those who may not have heard of this….. click on the links to learn more. It’s pretty cool.

As it should happen, I’m in a position right now to spend some money on a new toy.

To be specific, I’ve been torn between a new laptop, a kayak, and an iPad. Of the three my heart was leaning towards the iPad, but it had a major problem (for me) it came with no hard-drive and expandable storage. Now for most people this shouldn’t be an issue. The iPad is really a consumption device more than a  “work tool”, but I was feeling claustrophobic thinking about how limited my options might be in future.

A laptop can always be expanded easily just by popping on a USB drive, a Kayak…. well it’s got every river, lake, stream, sea, ocean in the world if I want it. It was just the iPad…. could I “live” with a measly 16 or 32 GB knowing that there would be no way to expand it easily for storage purposes? It has no SD slot, nor no easy USB ports…

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There is this great new ( for me ) forum for the Kindle that I think everyone needs to check out. Suffice to say it’s called the Kindle Users Forum. It will give you not only access to a lot of good information about what is happening in the Kindle World, but it will also give you a way to subscribe to ANY website that offers an RSS or News feed – which is HUGE for when you are traveling! This will help all of you who may have subscribed to newsfeeds using Feedbooks.com, which has now shut down this service.

The trick is that you will need to download and install on your kindle a “book” application that is available off of the kindle users forum. This book has approximately 50 already available newsfeeds but more can be added later using their web interface.

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Well it’s Gipp Forster Christmas time now…. everyone coming to my site is looking for Gipp’s recordings, and unfortunately many of my old links no longer work. So I thought I would go looking to find where we can find Gipp this year. What a pleasant surprise I had when I came across this video on You-Tube. How can anyone not resist watching this, the music, the words and the magic found in Gipp’s own garage. He is and so it is … Magical…

Here is a great article about Gipp and his Christmas garage – I really think the man is Santa in disguise! www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=3f4d5672-15e0-4972-8e2b-cb966d48c9fa

Oh and before I forget… Here are some of the latest links that I’ve found for you. Hopefully these will stay valid for a long, long time, but if they don’t let me know and I’ll see what I can do to update them – it seems to be something of a Christmas tradition for me now – Merry Christmas!

Dale Baglo Broadcasting where one can still order the recordings for broadcast on the radio – why radio stations aren’t snapping these up boggles my mind

www.thegiftofchristmas.com

Senior Living Magazine. Where you can find online articles by Gipp as well as order his two CD’s

www.seniorlivingmag.com/bookstore/gipp-forsters-christmas-vol-1

www.seniorlivingmag.ca/bookstore/gipp-forsters-christmas-vol-2-once-upon-a-christmas-eve

Gipp Forster’s Ramblings. Where Gipp can use his skills to pen something special for you. Unfortunately no CD’s are available here, but if you want to have Gipp write something special for you, you might want to check it out…

gippforster.com

All the best for this and many more holiday seasons - A Very Merry Christmas!

Well, to be truthful I’ve never met this wonderful gentleman. Save for listening to him over the radio, and eventually listening to his recordings. But every year at this time I hear from a LOT of people who are looking for him and want to spend time with him the way I’ve been doing.

Why every radio station in North America doesn’t carry his recordings is beyond me, but thankfully one can still find them and purchase them. And based on the number of hits I’ve been getting, by people looking for him, there are a lot of you out there!

Heck, if I was able to sell them from my site I’d never have to worry about it’s costs ( newventures ) again!    But I don’t make any money, save for the good cheer it brings me…

Be that as it may, I still enjoy at this time of year, helping all the hundreds ( at a minimum ) of people looking for Gipp Forster. So, to that end here are the latest links that I have for his CDs. The capcom site no longer seems to be active/available now, but thankfully my second find is. So without further ado….

For Volume 1: Gipp Forster’s Christmas -

www.seniorlivingmag.com/bookstore/gipp-forsters-christmas-vol-1

For Voume 2: Once Upon a Christmas Eve –

www.seniorlivingmag.ca/bookstore/gipp-forsters-christmas-vol-2-once-upon-a-christmas-eve

Merry Christmas!

Oh, and if you want to read the whole history of how it all began and why this happens every year at Christmas  – here are a few of my articles from years gone bye – enjoy!

• It Feels Like Christmas (2008)

• Christmas Is In The Air (2009)