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This is my review of the Amazon Kindle 2 which has changed the way I view books and the activity of reading. Much like my iPod or my BlackBerry, the Amazon Kindle 2 has changed the way I read and made my reading more productive.

Much like my iPod, the Kindle 2 also makes reading faster and more efficient because all my new books are always with me. If I tire of one or need to reference another I just switch books in seconds, no more carying my books around the house etc.

The Kindle software is also available for the PC / Mac and various cell phone and ipod and ipad platforms. This means if your Kindle is not with you your books still are. Fire up the Kindle software and it senses where you left off on your Kindle 2 and you just keep reading. When you are back with your Kindle 2 it determines where you left off on your PC etc and starts the book just where you left off. So when you get a Kindle 2 you are really gettting on a versitile reading platform sort of like cloud computing for readers.

Ok from a reading and product prospective the Amazon Kindle 2 is excellent in the following ways. The Amazon store available wirelessly for free on the Kindle performs well and makes shopping a genuine activity. An excellent thing about the Kindle is the amount of free and low cost books available. This is why I say shopping becomes an activity because hunting for free or low cost books contains a thrill of its own. Many authors who create a series of books will give away the first in the series which is intended to suck you in. I’ve found many for free or $1.99 and the others in the series are also low cost like $3.99 a book.

The Next Page button on both sides of the Kindle 2 makes reading easy regardless of how you hold the unit. I only wish that they would put additional Next page buttons on the top right and left as well. If you want the previous page however you are limited to the left side for a button but that has not been a problem as I rarely page back.

The Keyboard is easy to use and joystick button for moving around the screen very intuitive.

Ok from a productivity standpoint here’s where the Kindle 2 has changed my reading alltogether. Unlike a paperback I can tuck my Kindle anywhere and bring it anywhere. So any moment i’m held up like a line or waiting room or standing around I can be reading. Much like my cell phone I can also be doing something and glance at the email or in the case of the Kindle the book and still be doing what I was doing such as waiting in line, or picking stuff up at the store. Unlike a book which looks strange for someone to open up and read the Kindle is always open so you just glance down, read a page or so and move on with what you were doing. This small increments of reading really ads up and I can fly through books much faster because I don’t have to remember to carry them with me.
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I’ve been deploying a ton of RSA Soft Tokens and i’m frequently asked for a RSA Soft Token for Android. Up until recently i’ve had to reply that none exists but now at least I have a projected timeframe. I contacted my RSA representative and was informed that there will indeed be an RSA Token For Android but it isn’t scheduled until Q4 of 2010 and maybe Q1 2011. So for now Android users are stuck with Windows or physical RSA tokens. Hopefully the Adroid RSA Token will be relesed sooner than expected.

If you are trying to update Windows XP to SP3 you may get an access denied error. This access denied error shows up even if you run a standalone Windows XP SP3 download like the one at Microsoft. Sometimes this access denied error is caused by registery permissions however in my case it was an antivirus product with a feature called “Access Protection” which was preventing my install of SP3. By disabling the virus scanner and specifically the Access Protection feature I could install SP3 and then re-enable my scanner.

I decided to get back to work on my websites related to Minnesota Cities, so I added a blog to my Coon Rapids website and started putting some content. I’m hoping the blog form factor works because I can add content much faster and on the fly. Since Coon Rapids is on my way home from work and also where I own rental property it gives me many opportunities to stop grab pictures and write about the various stores and restaurants that Coon Rapids MN offers.

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 now use a public key and KMS server to activate for volume license deployments. A good document describing the process and containing the public Windows 7 and Windows 2008 KMS keys can be found at this website.

If you are looking for the RSA Soft Token application that runs on Windows 7 you are in luck. RSA has released version 4.1 of their RSA SecurID token that runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can obtain the Windows 7 Soft Token direct from RSA at http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1162

Or Pull the Windows 7 RSA Token from here.

If you’ve tried upgrading Windows Vista Enterprise to Windows 7 Enterprise or Professional you may have already discovered that Windows 7 will tell you that you cannot upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise. Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade will tell you that only a fresh install is possible which will not take your current Vista Enterprise settings with. However there is a way to trick Windows 7 in to thinking you are running Windows Vista Business which is able to upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise. The trick is to change two registry settings in Hkey Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version You need to change the Edition ID and Product Name key. Change the word Enterprise to Business and then rerun the Windows 7 Enterprise setup. This time you can upgrade Windows Vista Enterprise to Windows 7 Enterprise.

I’m experiementing with using Wordpress blogs vs static html websites to see if they work as well.  I’m hoping they do because once setup, I can update a blog alot easier than a regular website.  I like websites for the way you can arrange pictures but blogs are so easy to update that I can crank out content much faster.  Lately i’ve been doing a mix of adding blogs to my existing websites but I recently started a new blog only site about the City Of Minnetonka where i’ll write about restaurants, shopping, government and anything else of interest.  I have high hopes because with a blog like this you can just tour the city writing about what you see and experience.  If successful it will certainly become a model for how I grow my business.  The risk is small, just time to get it started and time to wait for results.

This is the version 10 Aventail VPN Client for Windows, it’s a 32 bit version that works on Windows XP , Windows Vista and Windows 7.

32bit Windows Aventail VPN

or the 10.5.1 version

First download and install the latest BlackBerry Desktop Manager software. You can get it from Here
Install the software so you are up to date on your PC.
Next drill into c:\program files\common files\research in motion\apploader and rename vendor.xml to vendor.old
Next download and install JL Commander on your PC. This will install the application to C:\Program Files\JL_Cmder where you can run JL_Cmder.cmd to start the application. Be sure your Blackberry is plugged in when running JL Commander.
Use JL Commander to wipe the blackberry.

To reinstall the OS on the BlackBerry, connect it to the PC with BlackBerry Desktop Manager installed and you can use the Applications part of the software to update the BlackBerry Software.