January, 2012

  1. Open Source Alternative to Kindle-Style Syncing?

    Over the past year or so I’ve been buying a lot of books through Amazon’s Kindle store. The selection is great and removing Amazon’s crappy DRM — so I’m not locked into Amazon’s model — is extremely easy. Here’s the thing, though — the Kindle app is actually pretty good. I especially like how Amazon…

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  2. Pixel of Ink

    Pixel of Ink is updated daily with the latest books that are free in Amazon’s Kindle store. I subscribe to their daily email, and typically find 1 or 2 books worth downloading everyday. The editors do a good job of featuring relatively high quality books, so you won’t find their recommendations littered with crap.

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  4. Directory Opus – The Other Manual

    Since 2004, the first thing I do whenever I get a new computer is install Directory Opus on it. Directory Opus is a file manager replacement that guarantees I never again have to use Microsoft’s atrocious Windows Explorer. Directory Opus goes well beyond being a simple file manager replacement, however, and is a powerful utility…

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  7. Death of Email, Episode VII

    It seems like someone is constantly proclaiming the death of email as in this GigaOm article about IT firm Atos Origin planning to stop using email in its internal operations. GigaOm writer Miguel Valdes Faura points to things like social networking and tools like Salesforce’s Chatter as things that are gradually replacing email. Look, here’s…

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  8. How Much Time Should Kids Spend Playing Video Games

    Peter Gray has a nicely contrarian article at Psychology Today weighing in on the debate over how much “screen time” children should have each week. I’ve talked to about a dozen psychiatrists and psychologists about this over the past few years when it comes to my own kids and it is interesting how diverse the…

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