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Snow! Finally.
Had a great time this weekend over at the Brule River (After Hours Ski Trails). On Saturday I skied 40 kilometers (Birkie training), but today was the day to play in the sun! Hope you enjoy some of my GoPro photos / movies from the Northwoods. I even captured the aftermath of a wipeout!
At 3:18 the video switches from videos of Galen to me! The movie has some outtakes after the credits at 5:06.
Click to maximize any image.
What a great way to slide into Friday evening! We received 3 inches of fresh snow today, and at dusk the sun exploded on the scene. I live in northern Minnesota on the edge of a pine forest (and across from a waterfall). I took these photos using HDR photography (see prior post: HDR for the Amateur Photographer).
Click upon any image to view at full resolution.
Post update: Amity Meltdown added on March 16th
Amity Snow Pine River
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Amity Snow Pine Gazebo
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Amity Meltdown
With Amazon's latest Kindle Fire upgrade, their browser has become much more web friendly. Let's take a look at how the the browsing experience has improved. With this release, you may now utilize the entire Kindle Fire screen for viewing a web page. Given the smaller tablet size compared to an iPad, this is HUGE (literally and figuratively!).
I've also included a couple of other screenshots which should help you use your Kindle Fire browser, including how to easily get rid of the hundreds of tabs that always seem to be open.
You may also be interested in linked to my post: Personalize Your Kindle Fire w/o Rooting. It helps you get rid of the dreaded Amazon Carousel.
Click upon any image to view at fullo resolution!
When you open your Kindle Fire browser, you will see four arrows in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Pressing them maximizes your browser to your full screen. The second screenshot's lightly shaded red area demonstrates how much viewing area you gain.
Browser Default Status
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Browser Vewing Maximized.
(press the "up arrow" at the bottom center to return the menus)
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Getting rid of all those tabs!
(press and hold on any tab ... this pop up menu appears)
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Accessing the browser menu items
How do you describe the frozen northland where 30,000 people descend upon Lake Nakomis on three cold days in January to watch teams vie for the Golden Shovel Award? Fantastic!
Welcome to the USA Pond Hockey Championships.
Take a moment to watch my animated slide show (with music). I spent the afternoon over at the championships taking photos (after first skiing 25 kilometers this morning). This is Winter in Minnesota!
2012 finds teams competing from all over the United States and Canada (even a team from Latvia)! Players range from old rink rats to former NHL players. The final aerial photo in my slide show is courtesy of the local CBS affiliate (story). Enjoy!
Finally, if you're on this page, I assume it's because you like hockey being played outdoors! Link to a previous post of mine and watch the movie trailer for Pond Hockey!
USA Pond Hockey on PhotoPeach (click in bottom right to expand)
(click upon to view at full size)
I pinged Target rather hard on a customer service fiasco early last Fall. With this video and their Rube Goldberg Machine, they are back on my good side. Well done, Target! I don't even mind I am helping you advertise by featuring this video. It's worthy! (Learn more about Target's Rube Goldberg Machine)
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From Wikipedia!
