Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?

I have to admit that I never saw the attraction. I think I looked at the sampler once – just once.

I wanted to let you know about Kiva, a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur who is working toward improving their living situation.

You can go to Kiva’s website and lend to someone across the globe who needs a loan for [...] Continue Reading…

According to this article on AppleInsider, Apple is not stopping with electronic books, and is attempting to attack Amazon’s mp3 download business as well.

Sources say that iTunes representatives have been urging labels to rethink their participation in the Amazon promotion and that they have backed up those warnings by [...] Continue Reading…

For some bizarre reason our friends at Apple have never included an easy method of viewing hidden files and folders in OS X.

Sure, you can do a google search and get the exact code to enter into the Terminal, but there’s a reason I use a Mac and not [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve recently realized that you don’t go out much when you work from home, and you go out even less when it starts snowing. You could say I’ve been getting a little stir-crazy. We had a brief lull between snow storms today so I took the opportunity to go [...] Continue Reading…

Regular readers (all three of you!) may have noticed the recent appearance of advertising in my sidebar.

For the longest time, I was strongly against showing any form of advertising on this site. Partly because I just don’t like it, and partly because the site doesn’t really look that big. [...] Continue Reading…

When I first moved here from the warmth of Australia, I really wasn’t looking forward to the winter season. Coming from a place that had just two seasons, warm and not-so-warm, it rarely got anywhere close to freezing temperature!

I slowly began to enjoy winter after I learned how [...] Continue Reading…

As an expat, I find Facebook to be an excellent way of keeping up with friends in other countries and timezones. I really like most aspects of it. Some parts of it really, really annoy me though. So much in fact, that I studiously block the offending items from [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve been thinking about eBook Readers for a long time now.

I almost bought a Kindle. Several times. Then I almost bought a Nook. Then I almost bought a Kindle. Again.

The thing that kept stopping me was that I wanted something that could do more. I like to travel, [...] Continue Reading…

Introducing a theme reminiscent of the old school style of blogging, otherwise known as writing in a journal – Simple Notepad.

Simple Notepad is a theme for the WordPress platform. It was intentionally designed without a lot of visible frills in the background with the goal of keeping the reader’s [...] Continue Reading…