Seriously trivial thoughts
MaximumPC uses Coverleaf and PC Magazine uses Zinio. Zinio appears to have the larger library, but Coverleaf does have recognizable magazine names. One big difference is that Zinio allows you to use an optional desktop client whose use is obviously directed at offline reading. That’s a nice feature. The desktop client also has annotation features …
“There’s a lot of life lessons in that movie…” –a serious woman speaking to another woman after just seeing “He’s Just Not That Into You”
I’ve been seriously trying to decide between the Kindle and the Sony Reader, but I’ve just discovered that you can’t beat a slate-style tabletPC-I’ve got the Motion Computing LE1700. Digital media consumers, like me, have long moved way beyond the one-dimensional black and white mediums and onto color-intensive things like magazines, websites, etc. Even newspapers …
I absolutely love little utilities that make life a little easier and Nuance’s T9 Nav is exactly that. It basically puts nearly everything on your N95 just a few keypresses away. No more hunting through menus to find the application, contact, appointment, etc. you are looking for. When you first start T9 Nav up, it …
Well, it’s been a week since I switched to using my left hand to operate my mouse. I’m still not even close as accurate as using my right, but I think the switch in my head has flipped. I say this because yesterday, when I was reaching for the mouse on a PC I don’t …
Is it just me or is MaximumPC trying hard to hide its digital subscription? I never heard of it until I accidentally stumbled across the mention of it and dug around. First off, you’d think that with print magazines barely hanging on, a subscription link would be right there in your face on the website, …
Ok, so using an upside-down mouse was kinda silly. My new solution is to learn to mouse with my left hand. A quick Google search shows that it has been done successfully and at least one said that they became amidexerous and could mouse with either hand. Seems like this is somewhat akin to being …
Unfortunately, the excitement over my newly constructed mouse-click foot pedal has quickly faded as I find it a little uncomfortable to use continuously. I find that over long periods, keeping my foot angled up (i.e., off the pedal) can cause its own type of pain. I was thinking that there must be a utility that …
How to build a mouse button foot pedal for $20.
I don’t run into it alot, but everyonce in a while I’d like to click on an email link to send an email. You know, something like doug@notmail.com. Well, unfortunately, I use gMail which is a web-based email client. Since you can’t set a web-based email service as the default Windows email client, Outlook will …