Geocaching

Have you ever heard about geocaching?  Maybe you have but don't know much about it.  I didn't know anything about it until one of my friendly customers and I were talking about it this morning at the Coffee Stand.  Geocaching is kind of like a treasure hunt that you can use a GPS to get you near a hidden geocach.  Geocaching is a fun thing do do if you are hiking or exploring outdoors, and are looking for something to do.  You enter the coordinates of geocaches to locate yourself near the treasure and then you look for it.  There is sometimes a log book to sign saying when you found it, and you can take something from the geocach, but make sure to leave something of equal or greater value so others will still have something to find.  If you ever find one and look at it make sure to put it back where you found it.  Check out the website where you can get coordinates for geocaches and tell others you found it.  They have a cool video with more info. about geocaching and what to do.  Link is below.  Hope you enjoy>

http://www.geocaching.com/

NOOK

The NOOKS newly lowered prices have made it more affordable for me.  I just got a NOOK and am excited to use it on vacation and for early morning reading.  I also got a case that protects it nicely and has a wonderful feel.  I'm excited to read the Bar Harbor newspapers electronically and explore in the vast electronic library of many choices.  It has many features i'm still finding out about.  Check out NOOK for yourself.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook

A Fancy Book

I've recently been saving some of my earnings to buy myself a NOOK. If you don't know what a NOOK it's an eBook reader. NOOKS are sold by Barnes & Noble and are a basic way to read books digitally. They have an online eBook store where you can download books for less than a real one. Some are even free. You can sample before you buy to see if you like it. The local library website offers some eBooks that can be checked out by a few users at a time. I'm not an intense reader, but for but for someone who wants to read a little it's a nice thing to have. I recommend NOOK if you are looking into an eReader.

What To Do With That Old iPhone

If your'e thinking about purchasing a new iPhone 4 what becomes of that old iPhone? I’m guessing it becomes an iPod Touch. A GPS. But will there be any problems syncing it after setting up the new iPhone 4?

As soon as you activate the new iPhone, the old iPhone will indeed behave like an iPod touch. It's body will just be a little bigger. You will hook it into your Mac or Windows PC and, same as before, you will be able to sync all media, personal information, and apps to it. It wouldn't be able to make or receive calls, send or receive TXT/SMS messages, or do any data browsing over EDGE or 3G connectivity.

If you only want to use it as a GPS don't buy a voice plan, just a data plan. In the app store you can find many GPS apps, you can download. These apps will work over the AT&T network (unless unlocked) and you will be able to get directions, current location, and other cool features.

But you will still have an additional option.

1) Pass it along. Share the wealth and give your old iPhone to a deserving friend, relative, or institution? After you have your iPhone 4 set up properly you need to delete the data on your old iPhone. The person you give the phone to will then set it up as a new iPhone or brand new if they’re not an AT&T customer or as a transfer account if they already have that AT&T account.

A Coffee Stand Disaster

Going on 3 years of running a coffee stand curbside nothing disastrous had ever happened. As usual I borrowed 2 coffee carafes from relatives to use to keep the coffee hot. Well yesterday was a disaster. I woke up as usual at 5:25am and brewed the daily first pot of coffee. Soon after that my mom saw business was picking up and brewed a second pot. When ready I quickly ran up and back making sure not to miss any potential customers. Customers kept coming. Another. And another. HHmmm looks like a third pot is needed. Well it's 9:00 time to pack up for the morning. So I gather materials and carefully toss used napkins and coffee trash into the messy cooler. I pick up both coffee carafes and begin to step down off the storm-drain platform I use as a surface for the stand. SPLAT.... there goes both carafes I was using. It happened like that very quickly. They were crushed to bits inside. Completely unusable. Worst part, they weren't even mine. Now, of course this was not supposed to happen!