Jul 09 2012
Just a quick one for today. For those interested in the server side of Windows then you might want to pick up free digital copy of Introducing Windows Server 2012 here. It’s a leisurely 256 pages spanning five chapters, entitled: The business need for Windows Server 2012, Foundation for building your private cloud, Highly available, easy-to-manage multi-server …
May 29 2012
A heads up for the budding programmers out there. Charles Petzold is working on the next edition of his Programming Windows book which is now available while Windows 8 is in its developmental stages (with the Consumer Preview being the most recent stage of development). It’s available for a song at $10 for the ebook version …
May 21 2011
In my wanderings through the Kindle DX manual I came across a feature that I found quite intriguing in the form of being able to link your Kindle to social networking sites (at this stage Twitter and Facebook). I thought was a great little feature as I could share interesting or, more likely, humourous passages …
Apr 17 2011
About a week ago, Amazon announced the an upcoming release of a cheaper Kindle on May 3rd for US$114 that will feature ads on the home screen (as a small banner at the bottom) and as screensavers (full screen advertisements when the device is not in use). Amazon will also push special offers of its …
Dec 31 2010
For those of you that use the Amazon Kindle platform or are in the market for a new eBook reader and have yet to make up your mind then this development may pique your interest. In a nutshell, one Amazon Kindle user can lend out a book to another Amazon Kindle user for a period …
Aug 26 2010
Another quick one for tonight. At some point you may have written up a document which you want to share with someone but are wary of them tampering or altering your original content (perhaps even going to the extent of using it as their own). These could be PowerPoint slides or important Word documents. Otherwise, …
Jul 08 2010
Last weekend, the missus brought it to my attention that Borders had started to sell their own eBook reader in-store. This comes at a time when Amazon have had the market to themselves for ages with their Kindle before the Apple iPad made its recent entrance and the launch of the iBooks application on the …
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