November 16, 2009
If you’re an avid reader of books like I am (though I don’t read nearly as many books as I used to, thanks to the Internet), there are a handful of useful social networking sites where readers can share and discuss what they reading. The best part about each of these sites is they provide [...]
October 31, 2009
Wow, my MP3 collection dating back to 1998 is in a pretty sorry condition. Tags are wrong or missing, song names are missing from the music track, bit rates are wacky. All of my files come from different locations or methods of ripping, so they are all different. One day, I will have some time [...]
September 22, 2009
When was the last time you visited the library? Or a museum? When was the last time you read a reference book from cover to cover or took the time to travel to an exhibition? I bet it was quite some time ago since most of these things are now readily available online, digitised and [...]
July 18, 2009
I have loved to read since I was about 8 years old. I remember starting to read novels around 12. My first novel was a hardcover huge book by Stephen King called The Stand. Since reading that, I have been addicted to reading and have amassed a huge collection of literary titles and some crap, [...]
May 10, 2009
While there are several desktop software applications to catalog your movie collection, doing it online has several benefits: Easily share your collection, ratings, reviews with friends Look up your collection via your cell phone while shopping Compare online prices to get better deals List your collection in social networking sites like Facebook With DVDSpot closing [...]
March 9, 2009
The Wikimedia Foundation home page says – Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. With nearly 3 million articles in the English version alone Wikipedia along with its sister wikis is an Alibaba’s treasure trove of information. Now, Wikipedia gives us a chance to [...]
December 4, 2008
With the internet taking off the way it has, and the incredible effect it is having on all media outlets, including newspapers, magazines and terrestrial radio, books surprisingly continue to thrive. To this day, whenever you go into a Barnes and Noble or Borders, hoards of people are crowding the coffee shop with books in [...]
October 3, 2007
As Wikipedia grows more and more in momentum, people will start to use Wikipedia as their one and only source of information (of which I am becoming increasingly guilty of). But the internet doesn’t begin and end with Wikipedia. Here’s some other reference websites worth a look, sites you can make use of. 1. Dictionary.com [...]
October 1, 2007
OK, you can quit yawning. As soon as you heard the phrase “US Government websites”, you probably thought I was going to take you on a riveting ride through the complexities of the Internal Revenue Service. Au contraire, mon ami. Perhaps you didn’t realise until now that there are actually some really smoking hot websites [...]
