Recent content by Marc Mielke

IMO Google Books' EPUB functionality is kind of ****. Not only can you not directly sideload the books, like every other reader in the world, but Google's conversion protocol appears to increase the size of the EPUB by nearly 10x!

Just upgraded my Nexus 7 to the 16 GB model. After every thing is installed, I found "Sounds" didn't show my custom sounds. A quick check showed the sounds it did show from the Facebook app were m4a not mp3. Converting my custom sounds to m4a worked for about half. What is going on? Only thing...

Here's an odd one: Fish Reef Deluxe. My sister is absolutely ADDICTED to this silly game, which I guess used to be Nexus 7-happy. Anyway, her tablet died and I had to return it. Google's tech support folk were very easy to talk to and the return went very smoothly, but when the new model came...

I am using the DynaFlo Liquid Armor nanotech coating, which has gotten good reviews. It really doesn't feel like it's there at all, I'm a bit concerned that it's sort of "The Emperor's New Screen Protector", which of course I have no way of knowing until it is too late. It demands a lot of faith...