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12.11.08

Meet kindlefeeder, the best online tool you’ll find for your Kindle how to, resources | (0)
If you read a lot of online content, you need to know about Kindlefeeder, because it will drastically improve your reading experience on the Kindle. Kindlefeeder does two things extraordinarily well: It lets you pick up to 30 rss feeds from blogs, magazines, whatever you can find online that you like to read, and it converts those into a single document with full navigation and lets you wirelessly send it to your Kindle on a schedule you determine; It lets you copy and paste any text you find online into a simple form and, with one button press, send it wirelessly to ...
11.10.08

Convert pretty much any text into the Kindle format with Stanza desktop app how to, resources | (3)
Stanza is an iPhone app that lets you read public domain books on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Why do you, a Kindle owner, care? Because the company behind Stanza is working on a desktop version of the app (OS X and Windows only, no Linux, boo) that not only greatly improves the PC reading experience, but also lets you convert any text you're reading into the Kindle format without having to use Mobipocket Creator. Continue Reading...
08.25.08

Create custom word cloud screensavers with Wordle resources | (2)
A helpful reader sent in this tip, and after I checked out the site I knew I had to post it for others to discover. He writes: There is a very neat website that allows you to create a “word cloud' from pasted text passages. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can make a VERY cool screen saver image by using words from favorite/famous passages. It has a gallery section where people saved their wordles such as Lincoln's Gettysburg AddressMacbethStar Wars Episode IV script Obviously you can make your own from your favorite passage ...