Barnes & Noble Nook Tech Specs

The Nook is probably the best eReader to have hit the market so far. It is much better than the Amazon Kindle when it comes to hardware and with B&N bragging of a much bigger book collection than Amazon, Wi-Fi, PDF support, Android etc it seems to be a great deal.

It is priced at $259 - the same as the Kindle. However it has some features which completely PWN the Kindle. Here’s why it is awesome and why it may be my first eBook Reader.

1. Android

It is powered by Android which is very close to my heart. It may be a stripped down version but chances are that someone will hack it to support applications from the Android Market. It may also support video playback and internet browsing and everything else an Android device can do (just speculating).

2. Secondary Multitouch Display

It has a 6 inch E-Ink display; exactly the same as the one in the Kindle. Supplementing the main display is a smaller 3.5 inch multitouch color display for navigation. It also supports Coverflow – the book’s cover will be displayed on the secondary display.

3. Books, PDF support and ePub

B&N has a much larger book collection than Amazon and the Nook will support the ePUB format which also makes publicly available books from Google available on the Nook. The best incentive to buy a Nook though is the built in PDF support. You can load PDF books directly into the Nook and read them.

4. Wi-Fi, LendMe, MicroSD

It also comes with Wi-Fi to download books where the 3G network won’t work (like India). Also using the LendMe feature, we can lend books to other Nook devices for upto 14 days. You can also read your Nook content on your iPhone, Blackberry, PC or Mac using the B&N application. It also has expandable memory (by way of MicroSD cards). It supports upto 16 GB MicroSD cards.

5. MP3 Player, Gallery

It has a built in MP3 Player and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It also has a Gallery application for viewing images. You can also set custom screensavers. It also has a built in dictionary.

Just hoping it comes to India soon.

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With Google announcing 1,00,000 free invites for Google Wave, a lot of “Free Google Wave Invites” sites / blog posts have gone up in the past 2 days. Most of them are fakes, and you have just as much chance of getting a Wave invite from them as actually winning a Nigerian lottery. Anyways, as always, I have come to your rescue.

Leave a comment here with your email ID and I’ll try to send you a Google Wave invite as / when I get some extra invites. Also note that with each Google Wave account, you get 8 invites using which you can further spread the Wave love.

Anyways, try registering on these links to get it directly from Google.

Google Wave Invite Request

Google Wave Developer Sandbox Account Request

You can also try your luck here if you want –  Google Wave Invites

Update: Wave invites sent to the first 30 requests.

Google normally approves them in a week. Leave a comment if I missed anyone. 20 more invites in the next week.

Not all of them can be exactly categorized as con movies, but most of them come close.

Top 10 Con Movies

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The Bank Job – 7.5/10

Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London’s Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don’t realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets – secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal.

Dog Day Afternoon - 8.2/10

The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was all history. And it’s all true

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – 8.1/10

Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.

Snatch – 8.2/10

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

Reservoir Dogs – 8.4/10

Seven total strangers team up for the perfect crime. They don’t know each other’s name. But they’ve got each other’s color.

Catch Me If You Can – 7.7/10

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.

Heat – 8.3/10

A Los Angeles crime saga, “Heat” focuses on the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law – one a detective; the other a thief.

Matchstick Men – 7.4/10

A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist’s teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – 7.0/10

Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them. They agree to a “loser leaves” bet. The bet brings out the best/worse in the two.

The Spanish Prisoner – 7.3/10

An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there’s more to it than that.

21 – 6.8/10

“21″ is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

Ocean’s Eleven – 7.0/10

Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices come together to pull off the most daring heist Las Vegas has ever known… 11 men, 3 casinos, 150 million dollars, 1 chance to pull it off.

Ocean’s Twelve – 6.0/10

Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean’s 11.

Ocean’s Thirteen – 7.0/10

Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.

The Italian Job – 6.9/10

A group of thieves plan to pull of the heist of their lives by creating Los Angeles largest traffic jam ever.

Note:

This is in no way a complete list. I’ve yet to see many good movies so I will keep adding to it whenever I come across a good one. If you know of any good con movies I’ve missed, leave a comment.

Yea, I know it’s 15 but no one searches for top 15 lists anymore.

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