I buy a lot of music on-line and it breaks down like this: 1,268 completely unlocked MP3 files, easily playable on any computer or device, all purchased from eMusic.com. (Here’s a link to get 25 FREE iPod® compatible downloads from eMusic! Choose from over 2.8 Million songs! ) 0 DRM-locked files from iTunes, Audible.com, etc.
Google Chrome to Replace Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux
Google released Chrome today and you will see “Google Chrome is a browser” if you visit the Chrome web page. Do not be deceived, though. Chrome is not designed to replace Internet Explorer or Firefox or Safari. Chrome is designed to replace your operating system and virtually all of the software that you use every […]
Caching Free LibraryThing Book Covers
LibraryThing did something amazing last Thursday: it made images of the covers of a million books available for anyone to use for free. This is way better than using Amazon.com’s book covers because you can display them without linking to Amazon. If you are a library or an independent book store, having links on your […]
Acting My Age
Thanks Archie.
For Whom Do We Mourn?
Tragedy struck on Monday when 33 people died at Virginia Tech. Flags fly at half mast as we grope through feelings of hurt, anger, helplessness, and grief. President Bush was so moved that he offered personal condolences, It’s impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did nothing to […]
Book Wish List and More
I continue to find more uses for the wonderful (and $free) LibraryThing. Like so many of us, I have bunches of books that I have never had a good way to keep track of but now I do. Like… My wish list — yes, I do accept donations 🙂 My to-be-read list. Most of these […]
Using LibraryThing
LibraryThing seemed so obviously good that I simply dived in head first and started cataloging all of the books in the house, even though I did not know what I would do with it beyond that initial step. I am even more convinced of LT’s utility because the first opportunity to actually use my on-line […]
LibraryThing
I’m addicted to LibraryThing. It only took a few hours and I only have a start on cataloging my library. This is great stuff! Must sleep… must sleep… must ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World?
What if you could save money and do good by just changing a lightbulb? You can. Compact fluorescents emit the same light as classic incandescents but use 75% or 80% less electricity. What that means is that if every one of 110 million American households bought just one ice-cream-cone bulb, took it home, and screwed […]
eMusic: Music Without DRM
Are you sick and tired of being told that you cannot make legitimate copies of your own music? Did you buy a song for your iPod only to later discover that you could not play it on something else that you own? A “little” company, eMusic.com, has the answer: they sell good music for a […]
Nikon D200: First Impressions
I just upgraded from a Nikon D70 to a Nikon D200 camera: WOW what a difference. I have been too busy taking pictures to write about pictures but here are the things that leaped out at me first: Available light image quality is vastly improved. I had been jealous of my son’s D50’s quality and […]
ManKind Project Changes Men’s Lives
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about The ManKind Project. Men say training has made them better men was written, in large part, from the experiences the reporter had while visiting my I Group (no pride here! 😉 ). [Ed. The P-D’s on-line version of the article has aged off their web site so […]
Garmin Quest GPS
For years, I poo pooed the fancy-dancy expensive GPS navigators appearing in people’s cars. I’ll admit it; I was wrong. I got a Garmin Quest GPS a couple of weeks ago and am simply amazed at how useful it is and how accurate the database is. It is obvious that the Quest has benefited from […]
Stock Photography, Images, Animations, Graphics
Looking for images for your web site? Be they photographs, animations, or graphics, here are a couple of good places to look. iStockphoto has a wide variety of stock photography with some graphics. Prices are incredibly cheap, just $1 for low resolution stuff that is suitable for web sites. Animation Factory has a huge variety […]
On-line Photo Galleries
I have two favorite on-line photo galleries, depending on whether you want to host the photos on your own server or let someone else handle the heavy lifting. For free stuff on your own web server / web site, nothing beats Gallery. This works great until you start to fill up the disk on your […]
