June 16, 2009
Mobi and PRC are the default ebook formats used by the popular MobiPocket. In 2005, the company was aquired by Amazon, so yes, even the celebrated Amazon Kindle now works with these files. When you buy an ebook online from one of the major retailers, you can be pretty sure you’re getting a Mobi book. [...]
May 25, 2009
Normally, I would stay away from anything named BackStreet. Just sounds shady. Yet, I find myself going camping this weekend where there is no Internet connectivity. Egads! Gadzooks! Whatever shall I do? Well, I found me a great blog that I like to read and I’m going to download the entire blog for offline reading. [...]
April 24, 2009
In the US, one major crisis facing the public is the dying of newspapers. As the Web becomes more prevalent and more important, newspapers are struggling to figure out how to make the Internet functional as a business model, and create a website as a destination similar to what a newspaper has been for so [...]
April 23, 2009
Before the flaming starts, let me qualify that headline – I mean ‘foreign’ as in ‘foreign to me’. Yes, the web is worldwide and you may be reading from one of the countries that I reference. That’s cool. Welcome. The goal of this article is driven by the axiom that when there are two opposing [...]
March 26, 2009
There’s not many things in life that I ardently desire from a materialistic point of view but the Amazon Kindle is definately one of them. I am a huge reader and the thought of putting my enormous library onto it and carrying it around with me in my pocket is just something that I really [...]
March 25, 2009
With the introduction of digital media devices, such as the iPod or Zune, the explosion of online digital content has been nothing short of amazing. It’s soon to become your only source for purchasing music, will one day be the only place to rent and purchase movies and now with sites like Audible, may be [...]
March 22, 2009
Why do people care for information that doesn’t affect them the slightest bit? Just take celebrity gossip or coverage of disasters. Does this knowledge change anything substantial? Part of the explanation may be empathy, but most of all humans are incredibly curious creatures. We have an unquenchable thirst for information and the exchange of it. [...]
March 19, 2009
There was a time when we still went to the store if we wanted a good comic, losing ourselves between the shelves. Of course, though the shelf-losing is still optional, we have the opportunity to lose ourselves anywhere we want with one of the great online gaming webcomics. There are tons of webcomics to be [...]
March 18, 2009
As I’ve said in the past, RSS feeds and web syndication have become the de facto standard of delivering new content to the world. Whether it’s on a blog, a news site, a social network or a podcast, it doesn’t appear that there is anything that can’t be converted into an RSS feed of some [...]
March 14, 2009
Many of us are into blogs and news these days. A lot of these sites are professionally designed and easy to read, but a majority of the sites are designed keeping in mind ‘the required exposure to advertisements’. As a result, readability suffers at times. If you come across such a site or you would [...]
