Google Chrome and Google Bookmark

Since Firefox constantly messing up on my desktop machine (Mac Mini 2009) under Windows 8, I decided to completely give up on Firefox and just use Chrome.  With extension support, Chrome pretty much does everything I want a browser to do.  The finally problem is to add the ability to add page to Google Bookmark, and even that has been solved by the suggestion here.  So goodbye Firefox, I don't miss you.

Nexus 7 and watching movies on Flash drive

There is a reason why Nexus disable accessing thumb drive directly from micro USB port: it drains battery life fast.  10 hours battery life will turned into 4 to 5 hours.  I learned that during my recent flight to Montreal (Quebec, Canada).  I kept watching movies and TV shows on the flight using my Nexus 7 and various thumb drives, and of course my Nexus 7 was rooted.  After watching 2+ hours of video, I found the battery drained down to 50%.  So with that means watching 5 hours will use up all the batteries.  That's not good for a long flight like the one to Hong Kong.  And unfortunately there's no external battery, no microSD slot or a model with 64 to 128Gb of storage.  Still, I will continue using Nexus 7 as video playback device in trips because it works so well and can handle almost all video file formats.