Category: Miscellaneous
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GoneReading: buy book stuff for a cause
I get about 2-3 "cold call" emails per month asking me to consider posting something "of interest to my readers" on this blog. They're pretty much never of interest to me, and thus I don't feel compelled to pass them along to you. Here's an exception. GoneReading is a small website that sells stuff related…
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2011- my year in reading
I started the first couple of weeks of 2011 on vacation, and was reading books on my iPhone at the time. I thought it'd be interesting to track how many books I read in 2011, something I'd never done before. I switched to reading on an iPad 2 when I got one in April, and…
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What’s missing from EVERY iOS cycling app
I've tried a fair few of them by now, and have settled on iMapMyRide, because it's accurate (most are), and it shows hill categorizations, which I think is tres cool. There are a lot of hills in Calgary, so it's nice to get some tiny tangible recognition for climbing them. But there's something EVERY iOS…
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Making Safari more like Firefox with Glims (OSX)
Ahhhhh, that's so much better. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but Firefox, my old standby, has slowly become, well, slow. It's no longer my default browser, but it's always had a couple of features I've missed. The biggest one was Firefox's ability to search through the text of a page w/o having to…
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Libraries are screwed…
David Booker at the Centered Librarian posts a two-part presentation given by Eli Neiberger at the 2010 LJ/SLJ eBook Summit outlining the uncomfortable position ebooks puts libraries and offering several solutions. There are a couple of straw men in the presentation, but it's quite thought-provoking, and does offer some suggested for avoiding the screwage. 20 minutes in…
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Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously geeky stuff to make with your kids
Yes, it’s another review, but while this is another O’Reilly imprint, I got a review copy of this just for asking. I also mentioned that I’d compare Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred to the Instructables book I just reviewed. This title only has 24 projects, but they’re much more detailed, with pictures for almost each step along…
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Book Review – The Best of Instructables Volume I, by Eric Wilhelm
I am SO not a hardware geek. I've always been aware of it, but was sadly reminded of that fact as I read The Best of Instructables Volume I, the latest book I received as part of the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program. There are over 120 project in this book, all with pictures and clear instructions. What…