Kobo Pulse creates a book club from your Facebook friends

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I’m an unabashed fan of everything Kobo does. I’ve long held that Kobo gets ereading better than anyone else—even that other book seller based in Seattle—and their recent Kobo Pulse announcement shows that they are on the same, solid track as always. By connecting the Kobo app with Facebook and your Facebook friends, Kobo brings [...]

1Password Upgrades, Switches to Mac App Store, and Is Still a Bargain

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Recently I read on MacStories that 1Password had been updated to version 3.9. The funny thing was that no matter how many times I checked for updates on 1Password on my machine, it still said that 3.8.5 was the latest version. Then I learned that 3.9 was only available on the Mac App Store and [...]

In Praise of the Single Monitor

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For years I’ve been a huge proponent of having two (or more) monitors on your desk. They extra screen space can be invaluable to “getting things done”, or so conventional wisdom (and my own thinking) goes. Then I read an Ars Technica article about using an iPad for an entire workday and I wondered if [...]

Linksys RE1000 Range Extender: Works as advertised and rather well at that

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The Linksys RE1000 Range Extender does exactly has described. I get a much stronger and cleaner signal in the previous dead zones in the house.

2011 will be the breakout school year for tablets in classrooms

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Next week the 2011–2012 school year kicks off in earnest. On the Future Shop Tech blog (where I contribute posts), we’ve had the raft of Back to School 101 posts to help folks gear up (literally and figuratively ) for school, but in the meantime I’ve been keeping an eye on trends overall and I [...]

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