What a world!

Just reflecting on what I've learned about in the last 24 hours as I get acclimated to my MacBook Air (MBA) and wander about looking:

1. Amazon Subscribe & Save - ordering non-perishables (primarily) from Amazon to be delivered (free) to my house on a regular basis.



2. Replacing the battery in my Kindle (generation 1).



3. Kindle Owners' Lending Library - borrow one book per calendar month for your Kindle. Selection is limited and the book I borrowed - a 'Vook' - Switch to Mac was pretty lame, but we'll see what next month brings!



4. nvALT - note taking tool for the MBA which is quite nice.



5. Text Expander for the Mac - put together a combination of letters that auto-magically expands into some text. For example, dts (short for 'date timestamp') magically turns into Friday, November 4, 2011 07:30am. Wonderful combination of tools - nvALT and Text Expander and I log all kind of notes with timestamps! (Thanks to Mac Power Users David Spark and nvALT creator Brett Terpstra)



6. Scriveners - learning this wonderful writing tool for the Mac and experimenting



7. ifttt.com - (ifttt stands for If This, Then That) a neat little tool that enables you to define actions to take when you are doing something online - such as - If I post something to Twitter, send the post to my Evernote account. That way, all my posts are stored for me in my Evernote account. Thanks to Brian Kelly over at Bridging the Nerd Gap - http://tinyurl.com/5wl9p9q



8. Jeffery Sachs - heard on the wonderful podcast - Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon - (here) talking about his new book - The Price of Civilization.



9. And finally - Nicholson Baker, also on Radio Open Source, who says that the U.S. has given three things to civilization: Some Like It Hot, the iPod, and The New Yorker. Hear,Hear!!