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Today Amazon has released version 2 of its ebook reader Kindle. The reviews are already coming in — for example, Wired and New York Times. The reviews seem to agree: The Kindle 2 is the best ebook reader around.

Dmitry Brant’s DiskDigger allows you to recover files that you have deleted from your hard disk or from a USB stick or memory card. DiskDigger bypasses the operating system and reads the raw data directly from the disk. This means that you may be able to read files even if your disk has been corrupted [...]

The Crisis Of Credit website [via Lifehacker] has a visual explanation of the current credit crisis. Over 11 minutes they go over the reasons for the crisis. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

As a longtime developer of Palm applications, I have followed Palm’s announcement of the Palm Pre and its webOS operating system with great interest. Details on the webOS have so far been rather limited. However, Palm has now released the first chapter of O’Reilly Media book “Palm® webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm [...]

On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch gave a lecture at Carnegie Mellon titled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. Despite being diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer, Randy gave an amazingly upbeat and inspiring lecture. He described his childhood dreams including being in zero gravity and playing in the NFL, and then proceeds [...]

HTML Playground is a website for testing xhtml and css. You select an html or css tag and modify any attributes that may be associated with it. HTML Playground gives you a description of the tag, and you can then see an example of how the tag is used — shown both as html code [...]

Technibble has put together a computer repair utility kit consisting of some 57 tools that you can run from your portable drive like a USB flash drive. The tools are organized in groups like file management, information, repair tools, recovery, network tools, virus and malware removal tools, and more. See Technibble’s computer repair utility kit [...]

If you, like me, have Windows XP machines on your network, you may have run into trouble sharing files on them. XP has an Internet Connection Firewall that could be blocking file sharing. Annoyances.org has a two year old article explaining how to set up your Windows XP firewall. A few simple steps were all [...]

Amazon has introduced version 2 of their popular wireless reading device Kindle. They release it on February 24, 2009, and you can pre-order it now. I have never been a fan of ebooks, but Amazon’s Kindle has made me change my mind. I have played round with version 1, and it looks like version 2 [...]

Whspr lets you receive email from anyone without revealing your email address. Whspr sets up a contact web page for you. It is valid for up to a year, and you can delete it at any time. Simply give out the URL for the contact page instead of your email. This can be very useful [...]