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How to Read this blog

April 24th, 2011 · No Comments · blog maintenance

At long last I have updated the RSS feed for this blog. I’d really appreciate it if people could switch over to the new RSS feed. TDR had a different name when I started it back in January 2010. When I changed the name of the blog (and the website address) I didn’t bother changing [...]

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New Blog Update Coming

March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · blog maintenance

I’m going to be updated TDR to WordPress 3.1 in the next few minutes. If the site crashes, that was why. I know it’s strange to do this in the middle of the week, but a new mobile theme was just released that will let all tablet visitors use this site like it’s an iPad [...]

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Did you know that the Amazon App Store has a blog?

February 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Amazon, app store news

I didn’t. You might recall that Amazon opened their app store to developers back in January. At about the same time, they also started a blog to pas along advice for the  developers. I just found out about it yesterday. If you’re not a dev then it’s really not that important, but it does mean [...]

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Blog Update

September 26th, 2010 · 10 Comments · blog maintenance

I want to bring everyone’s attention to the new banners, please. It’s something I’m trying out and I would appreciate feedback. What you’re looking at (in the banner) is a word cloud (I made 4, actually). You can create a word cloud by drawing up a list of words and then using either wordle or [...]

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How I turned my blog into an app (without the app)

September 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · blog maintenance

One of the hot topics right now is mobile content. A lot of developers are trying to figure out the best way to turn a complex media rich website into an app so visitors can use it on their handheld device. I’ve come up with a solution that is both device and software independent, and [...]

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Create free blog subscriptions on the Kindle 3 using Wi-Fi & calibre

August 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

by Chris Walters One of the benefits of having Wi-Fi on the latest Kindle model is you can use the feature to send yourself documents without incurring a fee: “If you transfer personal documents to your Kindle via Wi-Fi there is no delivery fee. If you transfer personal documents to your Kindle via 3G while [...]

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Changes to the blog

June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · blog maintenance

New Pages on the blog I’ve added several new pages in the past couple weeks: Reviews – This is an index page for the hardware reviews so they’re easier to find.  It’s a work in progress, and suggestions on how to improve it would be appreciated. At the very least I’m going to add brief [...]

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Blog Maintenance

May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · blog maintenance

I want to give advance warning that I’m going to be doing some maintenance and upgrades between 11pm and midnight eastern US. The blog might change while you are reading a post.  I apologize  for the inconvenience, but the work has to be done sometime. I’ll also be trying new themes for the blog.

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