It’s been now two days since I received my Kindle 2, Amazon’s eBook reader. It’s early days, but I am extremely happy with it so far. These are the really pleasing attributes of the Kindle 2 (International Version): The speed of the transfer from the Kindle Store to the device The management of titles on [...]
While on the 10 commandments, here is a fairly old one from the Joy of Tech – but still relevant today.
Tomorrow should see the delivery of our new Kindles, one each for my wife and I. I have internally debated whether I should acquire one, with the competition being the long rumoured Apple tablet, as I was really keen to see what Apple would do. The debate was finalised when the rumours began declaring that [...]
I was reading a blog that I regularly visit yesterday and stumbled upon instructions for creating audio books from any type of text file. It was so awesome that I put it out on Twitter early today and have been requested to “fill in the blanks”. First and foremost, credit goes to Rick Mansfield and [...]
I’m a Mac user, and proud of it. When I made the switch from Windows in 2004 the biggest challenge that confronted me was what bible study software would I use. For all of my Windows life (from 3.0 to XP) I had used various versions of QuickVerse and it’s associated atlases and dictionaries. Unfortunately [...]
Here is an interesting table highlighting speed performance of browsers IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. What becomes most interesting is that the weakest performer, IE8 and it’s older siblings, is still the one that most people use. The fastest, Chrome, still has a small share of browser users. So why has IE8 still got [...]
