When Amazon announced the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, it was a nice little perk to those Amazon Prime members whom also happen to own Kindles. It wasn't much to convince Kindle owners who weren't Prime members or Prime members that don't own Kindles that they were missing out on much of anything. The Kindle Owners' Lending Library page says you can choose from over 50,000 … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Doing More with RSS Feeds
The long awaited follow-up to my RSS Feed Basics post from a year ago, I present to you some ways to get more out of RSS feeds from around the world. RSS is typically thought of as a simple feature that almost every website should have (and it's really frustrating when they don't) that allows you to "subscribe" to that site and receive notices when the site updates. Heck, the … [Read more...]
Fiesta.cc is email lists made easy
Trying to coordinate the holidays is a good reminder of the complications that exist with our current communications. If somebody doesn't quite get the "reply to all" and leaves somebody out or somebody constantly has to forward messages along to somebody that should have been included in the first place, it just leads to a nightmare and horrible communication experience. An … [Read more...]
Product Review: Tripp-Lite 6U Wall-Mount Rack Enclosure
A rack does not have a whole lot to it to review. It either works or it doesn't. After networking my house this past Summer, I picked up a 48-port switch for all the connections and other devices in my home office. The switch is able to be mounted in a rack and with all the cables coming into the area, it was looking pretty a bit disorganized. I was not interested in a full … [Read more...]
Firefox 9.0 makes its way out the door
Every 6 weeks, Mozilla is rolling out a new version of Firefox. If you haven't caught on yet, Mozilla's Rapid Release schedule is here to stay and we're on track to see 8 new major releases in 2012. … [Read more...]