Kindle for PC beta

I see Amazon has pre-announced the Kindle for PC beta. When I first saw this I’ll admit I was pretty excited – for about 30 seconds.

Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required
Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
Automatically synchronizes your last page read and

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Google Chrome OS

Oh wow, this is interesting news!

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the

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Follow-up to Netbook Linux Adventures

Here’s a very quick follow-up to Netbook Linux Adventures from last week.

I gave Crunchbang (#!) Eee version a quick try. Pretty cool distro that ran very nicely on my old Eee. But, ultimately, not what I was after. I’ll be keeping my USB key boot version around though.

True Confession Time: I went back to

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Netbook Linux Adventures

It has been a while since I last mentioned my little Asus Eee 701 netbook. I still use it daily and everything has generally been great. However, I’ve had a couple stability issues with it lately (due to 3rd party apps I’ve tried out) so, on a whim, decided it was time to have a

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Store Dropbox Data on a Removable Drive

Back in January, I was trying to move my Dropbox files off of my netbook’s little SSD drive and onto an SD storage card. No matter what I tried, I’d get an error about not being allowed to use a removable drive for such purposes.

I tried the exact same thing with Live Mesh beta

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