CE Wills

Hey, everyone. I read a different kind of book the other day. The title is Geek Mafia , by Rick Dakan. I downloaded it as an ebook via Stanza , which is an excellent source of free ebooks. The actual ebook came from Feedbooks , through the Stanza app. Rick's books are for sale on Amazon, also. Now that all that is out of the way, I'll give you the recipe for this novel. Paul Reynolds is a comic book illustrator and creator. He is on the outs with some 'friends' whom he had joined in a business venture, striving to create a video game from Paul's successful independent comic called Metropolis 2.0 . Unfortunately, Paul's bosom buddies have decided to fire him from the loose corporation which he had founded. Worse still, he is to be cut loose without a dime of compensation. A side note here. The writer has a background in the comics industry, I believe. I wonder if he has had an unpleasant experience? Stupid for me to think this because I write about a lot of t...

    Hey, everyone. Remember in the Clint Eastwood movie called The Good, The Bad And The Ugly? At the end, the three gunmen stood in a triangle to shoot it out, with no one knowing who would shoot who? It was tense and cool. Tonight we stand in the shadow of another showdown. None of these gunmen are bad guys. Most people like all the companies involved and none of them are doing anything wrong. Here's the recipe.     For the past 15 months or so, Apple has allowed companies to have apps on the app store which had provisions inside the app for consumers to buy things at another site. In such instances Apple received no money for that. Anything sold through the app store nets Apple a 30% cut. All this time, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Sony Books and others had apps through which they sold books to I-Padsters. Apple did not profit from this. It was very nice for us, and incredibly magnanimous of Apple to allow us to use their app store to buy books from...

OK, I admit it. The first thing I did with the I-Pad was put hair on a picture of a deer. Immature, but fun. The app I used is called Hairstyle light. It's free and it's fun. I bought the I-Pad about two weeks ago and thought  I would pass along my impressions to you. After all, everyone else has reviewed it. Let me start by saying that my computer expertise is limited compared to my knowledge of pumps and transformers.     My wife and I had left home intending to buy a Nook by Barnes and Noble. In fact, we did buy a Nook that day. The young guy at Best Buy who helped us told me I should really think about the I-Pad, so we walked over to the display and played with it. Sure enough it was really cool. The pictures were crisper and sharper than my LCD monitor at home could deliver and the touch screen has to be used to be appreciated.     I had done a lot of study before making my decision on the Nook and was not easily dissuaded. Things like the Nook ...