The reviews I saw comparing the Nook and the Kindle Fire pointed out the differences in hardware and interface. The Nook won in both of those respects, but where it lost was in the media content. The Kindle has access to the entire Amazon media library including all the hit movies, tv shows and music. There is no option on the Nook for downloading movies or music other than through Pandora and Netflix, which are both limited.

Another review of the Kindle Fire vs the Nook said that their web browsing experience on the Kindle was slightly choppy, but workable compared to the Nook. I haven’t experienced any choppiness on the Kindle Fire yet. Everything is extremely smooth and fast.

I was pleasantly surprised to find all of the music and movies I’ve ever purchased through Amazon readily available on the Kindle with a tap of the button. Without any configuring or loading, I was able to play my purchased music (and download it for off-line play) immediately.

The Kindle has 6gb of storage space available on it. The Nook has 16gb of available storage plus it has an SD expansion slot. The KindleFire doesn’t have an expansion slot. That being said, the Kindle Fire is designed to work off of the cloud mostly, and it does a great job at that.

The only other downside to the Kindle Fire is that it doesn’t have Bluetooth support. The Nook doesn’t either. The iPad does (of course).

We purchased a bluetooth adapter for the Kindle Fire that allows us to use our Bluetooth headsets to listen to it without waking the babes.

As far as features and screen size go, the iPad beat both the Kindle Fire and the Nook hands down. However, for some (including us) the smaller screen was actually a plus. Of course the price on the iPad is also much higher.

Happy Shopping!!

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One thing was lacking for me on the OpenVBX without plugins. The Dial applet that came with it didn’t allow for adding a timeout. Luckily someone did write out the code for modifiying the applet to include timeout and callerid, but it was confusing and I had to spend some time to edit it myself.

I finally got it working, so I’m posting it here.

Here’s the original link:
https://github.com/twilio/OpenVBX/issues/#issue/27

Here’s the link to the modified dial applet that includes caller id and timeout.
Time Out Dial Applet

After much digging through code, firebugging, etc., I figured out that the problem has to do with position:relative and position:absolute.

It would appear that position:relative will trump position:absolute no matter what the z-index. Very confusing and frustrating.

The fix I ended up using was to add a inline style of position:static on the tags that were being made relative. This fixed it and I didn’t have to edit the JQueryUI generated CSS.

Let me explain – say you hover over the tab “About Us”, and it is supposed to drop down to show other items in that section. When you move the mouse down to hover over these items, personally, I feel the hover state of About Us should stay on to indicate that you’re in that section.

Unfortunately, almost all CSS menus don’t do this. I found one that does, however – Here it is:

http://www.venturelab.co.uk/devblog/2010/06/creating-a-pure-css-dropdown-menu/

The key bit of code is excerpted here:

#nav li:hover a{ /* Set styles for top level when dropdown is hovered */
background:#6b0c36; /* Solid colour fall-back */
background:rgba(107,12,54,0.75); /* It’ll look nice semi-transparent */
text-decoration:underline;
}
This gets tricky, but it should make sense.
This block of code here is where the hover styles come in, there’s a bit of nifty code in there which controls what we’ll call ‘persisting hover states’ on the top level item even when the user is hovering the dropdown items…

#nav li:hover a is what allows you to give the top level link a persisting hover state when hovering its ‘children’. This works by styling every link inside a list-item when that list-item is hovered.

The directory allows you to find a periodontist using either your zip code or your area code.

Set the parent element to have height:100%. It should work now. For clarity sake, here’s some sample code:
<div style="height:100%">
<div style="float:left;width:100px;">left stuff</div>
<div style="float:right;width:100px;">right stuff</div>
<div style="clear:both;">Clear</div>
</div>

This one line:

li {
display:inline;
}

That’s it. The rest is just decoration and making it look right.