From the category archives:
I just discovered this free site today. Feedbooks has plenty of grist for the mill, both from the public domain, and from authors who submit their own original works, all free. I’ve picked up several from there, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be back for more.
Zorba’s Guide to free ebooks.
Try manybooks.net for more freebies.
The MobileRead [...]
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Reluctantly.
There’s a fee for cancellation, unless you tell them you’ve moving out of the country – which I did. Forewarned is forearmed.
Why did I cancel? Because of this little beauty. The Myine Ira isn’t vehicle-portable, but I don’t consider that to be a problem. I never used xm on the motorcycle anyway.
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Updated below.
Looking for some free books for your new eReader? Go here.
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There was a time in my life when, as a pre-teen (can I describe myself as once having been a pre-teen? Probably not, given my age.), and then as a teenager, I read anything I could get my hands on. I remember [...]
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Updated below for the Sanyo R227.
Well, almost.
I’ve been a great fan of XM satellite radio for years. In fact, I was an early adopter of the technology with the original Sony 5-channel receiver. It was a great unit for its time, but I eventually replaced it with an XM Roady some years ago. I think [...]
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The solution:
Load Internet Explorer (yeah, yeah, so smite me).
Copy and paste the download new gadgets website into the Internet Explorer address bar: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize?T1=desktopgadgets
Hit Enter.
Use IE to get all the Windows 7 desktop gadgets fit to print – or more likely, install. Each one you select will install into your gadgets sidebar, which can then be [...]
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I‘ve experimented with a number of hard drive enclosures. To date, I’ve not had much success with AcomData or MadDog. Both of these hard drive enclosures have turned out to be unreliable, to say the least.
I could never get the AcomData to work out of the box.
The MadDog stopped working a couple of days ago, [...]
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Cuba has digitized thousands of documents that writer Ernest Hemingway kept at his Cuban home, making them available electronically for the first time on Monday. – cbc.ca
Link to article here.
From 1920 to 1924 Hemingway wrote for the Toronto Star.
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Always remember to take the occasional look in your rearview mirror.
How the JournalSpace operator plans to recover: here, and here. Or not.
Google Cache to the rescue — but only if…
this method only works for people who did not have their blogs/journals set to be viewable only by other JournalSpace members, or set to Friends &/or [...]
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A leap second will be added to the last day of 2008 to ensure that atomic clocks “keep up” with the slowing of the earth’s rotation.
Read about it here.
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