The B Blog » Tools http://didierb.com/blog Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:28:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Kindle for book maniacs http://didierb.com/blog/2009/04/14/kindle-for-book-maniacs/ http://didierb.com/blog/2009/04/14/kindle-for-book-maniacs/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:22:18 +0000 DidierB http://didierb.com/blog/?p=410 Long time I didn’t blog … probably the twitter effect.  But here is a short one (but more than 140 chars).

I bought a book this morning for my kindle and here is a short return of experience.

Kindle book

Kindle book

Timing of the operation:
- Found through Google Reader (10s)
- Go to Amazon.com (10s)
- Thinking time … 36$ … do I need it or not ? … (15s)
- One-click purchase (5s)
- Download from Amazon.com (10s)
- Transfer to Kindle through USB (5s)

Overall, this hasn’t taken me more than a minute or two. Pretty amazing no ?

The good: Books are no longer stacking at home waiting to be read
The bad: I can’t see what is my actual backlog and so, I keep buying and buying …

]]> http://didierb.com/blog/2009/04/14/kindle-for-book-maniacs/feed/ 0 First Posterous MP3 post http://didierb.com/blog/2008/08/24/first-posterous-mp3-post/ http://didierb.com/blog/2008/08/24/first-posterous-mp3-post/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:29:37 +0000 DidierB http://didierb.com/blog/2008/08/24/first-posterous-mp3-post/ ITunes integration works great, just subscribe to the RSS feed.

BTW, don’t bother listening to this one, it is really crap :-)   I’ll upload the good ones later on.

Event – Driven Soa Vs Cep. What Is The Difference? by Progress Software
Download now or listen on posterous

Event-driven SOA vs CEP. What is the difference_.mp3 (7630 KB)

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TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!
I recently came across this wonderful tool which again makes me thank the day I switched to the Mac. Probably as useful as Quicksilver. The idea is simple, type in some special keys and it will fill it in with wathever text, image you configured it to.

Some examples:

TextExpander
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
 - Emails
- Greetings
- Signatures
- HTML structures
- Confluence macrosJust these first ones saved me already thousands of strokes and I warn you, it is pretty addictive :-)

You can find Video Tutorial available here

PS: If you want a similar product for PC, it is called Texter. And again you understand all the difference between PC and Mac Developers :-)

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