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The LAPTOP Magazine (via Slashdot) has an interesting story about the tactics Office Depot associates use to sell Product Protection Plans and other overpriced add-ons. The article describes how some associates refuse to sell products to customers who do not want the add-ons. The products are suddenly no longer in stock.

The free online HTML-PDF Converter converts web pages to PDF. Enter the URL of the web page you want converted, and then save the resulting PDF file. It is very easy to use. The HTML-PDF Converter is powered by Free PDF Converter. It converts an impressive 67 different file formats to PDF. It will also [...]

Photographer Ken Rockwell writes about taking pictures using the Real Raw format: Film. He argues that using film is better in many ways. His article on Why We Love Film compares film and digital photography, and film comes out looking very good. But digital still has its uses. For example, it is very useful for [...]

The new company Cc:Betty presented their system for organizing your email. It is as simple as cc’ing betty@ccbetty.com, and Betty will organize your message and it’s contents for you. Cc:Betty was presented today at DEMO. It has gotten a lot of press on the blogosphere: Web Worker Daily: Cc:Betty Offers Your Own Personal Email Assistant [...]

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 [...]