I write from a Starbucks in Japan, on a tiny little Amazon Kindle Fire 7 tablet. I purchased a ZAGG auto-fit keyboard, which works great. I am connecting through my iPhone, so that I don’t teach my Fire a bunch of bad habits on wi-fi hotspots.
\nI will add pictures to this post.
\nI now have a magnificent mini-office set-up; a peripheral office made up entirely of peripherals.
\nI husked an old Case Logic CD carrier by taking the CD-page insert out of it. That was easy — just hinge the “book covers” backwards and wiggle the plastic page roots out of the covers. Try it, and you’ll know exactly what I mean.
\nThis CD case has a medium pocket on front, which was supposed to hold a CD Walkman, but now hosts a power cable and a 1 Amp wall-wart, and a pair of cheap reading glasses. There’s a smaller pocket on the front which I believe was intended for batteries or a wall-wart for the intended CD Walkman. That pocket now holds a deck of 3×5 cards and some pens.
\nWith the CD pages removed, the interior is roomy and sized well for the Kindle Fire in its ZAGG keyboard\/case, as well as an old Kindle 3G (keyboard) in its own nice case. Frankly, I prefer the older Kindle for reading straight text. The battery lasts forever, and while it’s no PaperWhite, the display is certainly optimized for text.
\nThe ZAGG keyboard is straightforward to set up via BlueTooth to the Kindle Fire, which in turn connects via wi-fi to my iPhone, operating as a hot spot. That guy goes out on the cell phone network, which is miserably insecure of course, but not at the client end.
\nSo with that as my connected terminal, I can still listen to tunes on the phone (or indeed, on the Fire, as now), while using the Kindle 3G for reference. More to follow.<\/p>\n
I write from a Starbucks in Japan, on a tiny little Amazon Kindle Fire 7 tablet. I purchased a ZAGG auto-fit keyboard, which works great. I am connecting through my iPhone, so that I don’t teach my Fire a bunch of bad habits on wi-fi hotspots.
I will add pictures to this post.
I now have a magnificent mini-office set-up; a peripheral office made up entirely of peripherals.
I husked an old Case Logic CD carrier by taking the CD-page insert out of it. That was easy — just hinge the “book covers” backwards and wiggle the plastic page roots out of the covers. Try it, and you’ll know exactly what I mean.
This CD case has a medium pocket on front, which was … Continue reading