CNet adds crapware-installing “wrapper” for downloads from download.com
I recently downloaded some installers from download.com, only to find to my surprise that they have adopted a “web-installer” style “download manager” that offers to install random crapware before downloading the actual installer, such as the Bing or Babylon toolbars. This sort of thing is not atypical, of course; we’re all quite accustomed to authors [...]
More Than Just a Textbook eReader, Inkling is a Powerful iPad Study Tool with Some Serious Economic Advantages
One day, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will sit on their mommies’ and daddies’ knees and hear an almost unbelievable account of how people used to actually cut down trees to make paper. They will regard you and me with the same combination of sympathy and condescension that we have for outhouse owners, “Those poor, uneducated peasants.” [...]
Create audiobooks with chapter marks in M4B format with ‘Chapter and Verse’
Do you listen to audiobooks on iTunes, iPhone or iPad? If so, check to see whether your audiobooks are in m4b format, and whether each audiobook is contained within a single file or spanned across multiple audio files. The reason for this is that an audiobook in a single M4B file can provide you with [...]
Get 5 great free games at the Chrome store: Angry Birds, Fancy Pants Adventure World 2, Cargo Bridge, Steambirds Survival, and Canvas Rider
If you use Chrome, head out to the ‘Chrome App Store’ and get the following classic free games: (1) Angry Birds, (2) Fancy Pants Adventure: World 2, (3) Cargo Bridge, (4) Steambirds: Survival, (5) Canvas Rider There are tons of free games on the internet, of course, but if you do not want to waste time looking for them and [...]
Two tips to make your computer run faster
We all know that sinking feeling… the computer that used to spring to life in a few seconds seems to take forever grinding its way to a reasonable state of usability. No doubt you will have searched for an answer and found the usual tips about uninstalling unnecessary programs, especially those that start automatically. What [...]
