My Nexus and Google Play bad experience

Lately I have been reading much criticism about how Google managed their Nexus 4 release and I want to add up to this movement. Many are criticizing how they managed their over purchases delaying the deliveries and the orders in limbo, my case is just one of the many more who could not order a Nexus 4, I put in the position of the ones who could place an order and you may be frustrated but, and I think I can speak for many of us, we are desperate.

As a Spain resident, our Google Play is much less taken account for, in comparison to the US store, as many said the Nexus 4 was unavailable to buy at much 15 minutes later, as I was working I could not even try to order it. For two big companies like Google and LG this is pathetic, we know the hype was high but this situation is ridiculous. I am starting to get mad at Google, and to add it all up, there’s the new version of the Nexus 7, in a couple of months later, remember that the Nexus was not available in Spain until the end of August, but the customers who got these first version, like me, can not be refunded, why? For just 1 month of use? Remember that the late orders of the 16GB version got a refund of the price difference. The Google Store is getting overwhelmed, I thought Google was more careful with their customers, Apple style, but these days I am seeing that they are like the others, no difference here.

If you are a big company and you are not ready for massive entry on physical selling you should not do it, the only thing you will get is worst image and mad clients. And I really like the Nexus 4 but my pride got hurt badly.

Funda Belkin Folio Basic para Kindle (BEF8N670/F8N670CWC00)

Después de un tiempo tras comprar un Kindle, necesitaba una funda decente para llevarlo de aquí para allá. Las fundas de amazon son las más chulas pero el precio que tienen echan para atrás, tanto que por ejemplo una amiga se fabricó una funda con un plástico protector de embalaje, que bueno qué os voy a contar, ya os podéis imaginar que quedaba un poco cutre la verdad.
Para no llegar a dicho nivel de bricolaje, estuve mirando que opciones más baratas había. Tenemos por una parte las fundas de otras marcas, principalmente de origen asiático que podemos encontrar en diferentes webs, que no encontraba especialmente atractivas, imitaciones bastante conseguidas en ebay a buenos precios, pero por ser en ebay no me inspiró especial confianza; y fundas de marcas más o menos conocidas que hacen complementos de diferentes rangos, como puede ser Belkin.

Vi esta funda, la Belkin Folio, en una web a unos 10€, era sencilla y no estaba hecha en esa típica imitación de piel, por lo que me gustó y la empecé a buscar. Siguiendo estas recomendaciones para comprar desde España en amazon y buscando fundas para Kindle de Belkin, la encontré por un precio más que interesante, menos de 7€.
Actualización: Veo que el precio ha subido desde que la compré en amazon.es, seguramente mucha gente encontró el chollo y amazon en sus compensaciones de precio lo ha ido subiendo poco a poco, aquí tenéis un gráfico con la evolución del precio en estos pasados meses. Una buena opción es que uséis nuestra nueva aplicación para windows (Wishlist Manager) para hacer un seguimiento del precio y ver su evolución.


Actualización (11/01/2013): Buscando enamazon.co.uk veo por casualidad que está a un precio más que bueno (£2,5), mejor que el que encontré yo, aunque sea de un vendedor tercero, veo que está incluido en el Free Super Saver Delivery, recordad que si llenáis el pedido hasta unas £25 el envío es gratuito a España.

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Actualización (28/04/2013): Repasando alguno de los posts para completar algo de información veo que no había incluido ninguna foto, aquí tenéis un par hechas hace un rato.

Si seguís buscando fundas para vuestro Kindle os recomendamos que utilicéis Where Should I Buy?, una herramienta que os permite ahorrar tiempo y dinero en vuestras compras online, simplemente encontrando las mejores ofertas en las mejores tiendas online.

Si este post os ha sido útil, compartidlo en las redes sociales. Muchas gracias!

Funda belkin folio basic para kindle (BEF8N670)
Reviewed by Fernando Mateoon Oct 10 2012
Rating: 5

Best all-time movies. 2012 edition

Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock has been named "best all-time film" beating Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, according to the latest survey by the magazine Sight and Sound Festival of British Film (BFI). This specialized publication conducts such surveys every ten years and the film directed by Welles had occupied the top spot on the list of the top 50 films over the past five decades. In the last survey, the experts placed in first position Vertigo, the thriller directed by the British director in 1958, surpassing by 34 votes to Citizen Kane, and not included in the list any film shot in the last decade. Those experts in films, a total of 846 distributors, critics, academics and writers, were asked to rate the work according to their importance in film history, their findings aesthetic or the impact it had every film on a personal level in based on their own vision of cinema.

With a cast that includes actors like James Stewart and Kim Novak, Vertigo is about a retired police officer, Scotty Ferguson, who is afraid of heights. In the latest survey the magazine conducted a decade ago, the Hitchcock movie, the British director himself referred to as his "most personal film," had been only five votes to Citizen Kane (1941). Of these two movies

I loved Vertigo and I love that it got the title of the best movie. As with Welles's film, Vertigo received mixed reviews when it opened but has gained prestige over time. In the classification of BFI, Yasujiro Ozu's film Tokyo Story (1953) went from fifth to third place, while La Regie du Jeu (1939) by Jean Renoir lost a position until the fourth.


Among the top ten films were two new entries: Man With a Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov, at number eight, and The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1927) by Carl Theodor Dreyer, in ninth position. Is surprising how many movies of before the 30' are in the top ten, and not even one of beyond the 70'. Probably many of us have not seen many of these movies even many of us see a lot of movies, in my case at least one for very 3-4 days, but today's mindset probably is not prepared for this kind of old good movies, maybe all these critics are stuck in time. Of the selected works, the most recent was 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick, in sixth place.

Thanks for reading!

Take advantage of the price drop of SSD and upgrade your computer today!

Want to upgrade your computer but can't afford a new one? Or just simply don't want to have working computer getting dusty in a corner? You probably have already heard about SSD on high end laptops like macbooks, but you probably have also heard that they are pricey or at least until now.
First let's introduce the concept of SSD and later talk about its prices.

SSD?

SSD is an acronym for Solid State Drive, you may have some USB pen drive, you can imagine that SSDs are something like a bigger version. SSDs do not have moving parts, data is stored in microchips, in the other hand, a conventional hard drive uses a mechanical arm that moves and reads or writes the information in the disk. This difference is what makes SSD much faster and more reliable, SSD use NAND-based flash memory, a type of permanent memory that has a data storage integrity for over 200 years and more power efficient and also one of the best features is that SSD consume relatively less power than traditional storage disks, this makes them ideal for laptops.

Additionally SSD have the same format as hard drives so they can be replaced easily with an SSD, normally their size is 2.5", if you have a desktop computer will need a bracket to convert it to 3.5".
However, one of the downside is the short lifetime of the SSD drive in comparison to traditional HDD. One of the ways to increase the lifetime of your SSD drive is to disable unnecessary write access. There are many applications that will do this process easier, such as SSD Fresh.

And one more warning, SSDs don't make noise, it will not give you a warning of something wrong, they just die. Then, you should always have complete image backups of your systems so you should be able to get back in no time, your important data should be replicated, and if you can not have all your data replicated you should select your sensitive data and system images.

Prices of SSDs

After this small introduction it shouldn't be a surprise that an SSD is the best upgrade you can get for your computer and now is a great time to buy one, because the formerly-expensive drives have dropped dramatically in price over the past months this would be the perfect time to buy one. After last year's Thailand floods, prices got stuck for some time, but SSD prices have continued dropping dramatically, many models being 65% cheaper than they were only a few months ago, SSDs have never been more affordable and they can make breathe new life into your computer. If you've been waiting to do a step forward, now is a great time to make the change.

Here you have a graph showing the price evolution of the Crucial CT128M4SSD2 128GB M4 SSD on amazon.com:

My recommendation is to buy a relatively small SSD for your OS and programs that depend much on disk reading, and have a traditional hard disk for store data, then you will not need much space, 128GB will be enough, and your pocket will not hurt much.