Category Archives: Personal Technology

Technology at home, for fun or???

CORRECTED Works – personal documents to kindle (NOT including chromebook)

These instructions appear to work. You need the details of your “to” kindle address – typically ending in @kindle.com as well as accepted “from” e-mail address. Useful for Proj. Gutenburg & a fair # of other supported document formats… Updated 23 Oct 2013. After further testing – kindle blocks personal documents on chromebook (& kindle […]

Be careful out there folks

Fake malware warn droid. History repeats. Mobile advertising – they’re not validating what they’re pumping to handsets – lame. Sad. Not planning on following the links but if it’s biz. as usual – they’d either follow to asking for a credit card (to cover their costs to help me) or they’ll actually try to install […]

Noodling with epub, calibre & kindle (droid)

A bit on the geeky side but not too difficult to get kindle (droid) to let me add an elibre title to library. Some additional reference on elibre & kindle here. Visuals to come. Fyi – mechanics – default “send to device” destination for me is a folder titled “kindle”. Was briefly concerned about “main […]

Opt out follies

An observation on an ongoing silliness among software vendors. A lot of the JAVA NSA roots revolve around “opt out” defaults. Another quarter heard from – adobe flash.     Bloat by default

Misery (?) loves company tech style.

Roku box was kicking out a completely unhelpful message (“check your internet connection…”) for netflix last night.   http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/12/24/amazon-aws-takes-down-netflix-on-christmas-eve/ Omg. We might need to entertain ourselves otherwise… 😉 No biggie but good to know what was going on.

More fun with tech. dvd style

One of the reasons I still do the dvd thing. Only seen option of an alternate sound track (commentary) once on a streaming or live viewing (tcm for the James Whale “Showboat”?