Computer Technology Split and Convergence

Posted at 1:00 pm | Filed Under: Hacks

Some time in the 50’s the idea of a computer started to take hold of a critical mass of people, and depending on who you ask, sometime in the late 70’s and early 80’s the computer was born. Xerox labs came up with a 2d icon driven screen, and a mouse similar to the [...]

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Kindle Free Books - A Free eBook a week from Whiskey Creek Press to celebrate their Free Anniversary

Posted at 8:51 am | Filed Under: Amazon Kindle

Whiskey Creek Press is giving away a different Free Ebook novel (which you can read on your Kindle) every week during March, and this free ebook is available to ALL customers. We are also sponsoring a huge Scavenger Hunt featuring dozens of WCP authors and prizes during our March Anniversary.
Here’s the schedule of Free Ebook [...]

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CNet does a product spolight video on the Kindle

Posted at 7:47 am | Filed Under: Amazon Kindle

CNet’s product spotlight on the Amazon Kindle. I think there’s a slightly different apporach which I like.
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Self Published Book Achieves Top 1 Percent Sales Rank at Amazon.com’s Kindle Book StoreSelf Published Book Achieves Top 1 Percent Sales Rank at Amazon.com’s Kindle Book Store

Posted at 7:44 am | Filed Under: Amazon Kindle

This is really interesting - The author actually credits the Kindle i.e. “I am very pleased to see my book reach the top Sales ranks,” said author Kalpanik S. “I decided to use self publishing because I wanted to focus my time and energy on writing, not on trying to contact book agents and publishers. [...]

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GP | Amazon Kindle In Depth Review

Posted at 12:34 am | Filed Under: Reviews

Gear Patrol. Don’t take our word for it? Fine. We won’t argue. Go read Michael Specter’s article on Men’s Vogue. It’s insightful and far more eloquent than ours. Cost: $399 @ Amazon. Tags: Technology, Amazon, Kindle, Review.
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Amazon Kindle

Posted at 7:52 pm | Filed Under: Reviews

Hands On - Sony e-ink Reader PRS-500 Reviewed; Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle - Will eBooks happen this time? My Kindle-tagged Flickr Photos; March 2007 My Reading List - Home; October 2006 - My Reading List - Home; October 2005 - My …
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Book Review: Hacking, The Art of Exploitation

Posted at 6:48 pm | Filed Under: Books

I have not seen the 1st edition, so this review of this book stands alone. Although Hacking devotes about a quarter of the book to introducing programming, pseudo-code, as well as computer basics such as memory segments and the heap, …
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Console on the Kindle (and more)

Posted at 6:20 pm | Filed Under: Hacks

Console on the Kindle (and more) February 23rd, 2008 Filed under: handhelds hacks, misc hacks [Dev] sent in an interesting blog series on hacking Amazon’s kindle. [Igor] has documented getting a …
The rest is here: Console on the Kindle (and more)

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DRM-Busting Media Player from Double Twist [ Hacks ]

Posted at 10:27 am | Filed Under: Hacks

Double Twist company has launched a media player which can burst or in short rip off DRM protected Songs. Its the same guy Jon was the guy who cracked the CSS encryption that makes DVDs harder to rip or copy than CDs and now his new Now the smartness is it does not [...]

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Top 20 technology world blogs by wikio

Posted at 12:00 am | Filed Under: Hacks

Internet Updates: 1.-Techcrunch[1 new feeds] Twitxr - Like Twitter, With Pictures. Yeah, It’s Photoblogging. 2.-Mashable[7 new feeds] Blu-Ray Wins HD Disc Format Battle; Will Lose War To Downloads Twitxr: Another Twitter For Pictures Stardoll: A Virtual Consumer Experiment Turned Financial Megahit Google-Funded Chinese [...]

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