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Month: January 2010

  • eRadio? It’s coming.

    By now you’re pretty tired read­ing all the ‘2010 is the year of the eBook’ art­icles out there. But what about eRa­dio? It’s more pre­val­ent but do you even know what it is? …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post…

  • Three tools to trick out your digital darkroom

    It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a photo geek. I’ve been tak­ing pic­tures since I was old enough to under­stand what f‑stop was, and had my first wet dark­room in my par­ents base­ment bath­room before I was out of ele­ment­ary school — and no, I was­n’t held back 🙂 So I’ve been fol­low­ing…

  • How to easily convert almost any eBook to open ePub format

    My iPod Touch is also my eBook read­er. I use the Stanza app (recently upgraded), and the Stanza desktop applic­a­tion to get pdf and oth­er formats into my iPod Touch. But Stanza can­’t read all formats, and occa­sion­ally an impor­ted file will not dis­play cor­rectly — the lay­out gets messed up. This is where 2epub.com…

  • How to view PDF files on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with DropBox

    Drop­box really is an amaz­ing com­put­ing and file shar­ing applic­a­tion. I was ini­tially intro­duced to it when I needed to eas­ily share files with vari­ous com­puters across the inter­net — and email was not an option. Recently my wife asked me for anoth­er solu­tion to view­ing PDF files on her iPod Touch. She’d been using…

  • This is the week that was

    Awe­some new punc­tu­ation mark released — it’s some­thing we all need, espe­cially me because I’d use it after this sen­tence. Of course, I do take a look at some of the oth­er cool tech things that happened this week. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop…

  • Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter

    Last year, I wrote a couple of posts explor­ing the reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter: Won­der­ing why people fol­low me on Twitter? The reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twit­ter has been ‘improved’ in the mean­time — revised ReTweet func­tion,…

  • A collection of my desktop images

    Recently I’ve been reor­gan­iz­ing my image lib­rar­ies, and came across a few that I’ve used as desktop images. I don’t claim to have shot all these, just mod­i­fied them from their ori­gin­al size to fit my desktop. Rather than hav­ing them all over the blog, I’ve built a page to host them So if you’re inter­ested…

  • Projector marries gun: Offspring is one cool little shooter

    One of the neatest recent devel­op­ments in tech is the pico pro­ject­or. Basic­ally this is a tiny little device, a little smal­ler than a paper­back, that packs fairly good pro­jec­tion tech­no­logy into that little size. But what can you do with such a little thing… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my…

  • The keys to the library

    Giv­en all the hype eBook read­ers are get­ting these days, espe­cially dur­ing and after CES, I thought I’d explore which was more valu­able, the data object, or the data. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • This is the week that was

    Ok, I was wrong. Last week was quiet, in tech, but no where near as quiet as this week…as long as you dis­reg­ard the small nuc­le­ar explo­sion that is CES. Well, I’m not going to totally ignore it, but instead …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future…

  • CES Tech: From the sidelines

    Not every Future Shop blog­ger was able to get to CES this year, and I’m one of them. But that does­n’t mean we can­’t watch all the announce­ments, news releases, cov­er­age and awards out of ‘Vegas this week — and yes, being a bit of a tech-head, that’s what I’ve been doing. …more This post…

  • Using Google Wave to ‘book club’ Trust Agents

    Earli­er today I respon­ded to a tweet by @gregbd about form­ing a read­ing club for Trust Agents: And now we’ve done it. It’s a pub­lic Wave that you should be able to find by search­ing with:public "Trust Agents" in the Google Wave search box, and since it’s pub­lic, feel free to join in and share your…