Technology
Not having listened to radio in awhile, I’ve gotten back into it through a more hi-tech approach: Podcasts. One useful feature with podcasts is the ability to listened to the shows you want, when you want. Another plus, for now, is that you can get alot of free shows, commercial-free (which may change with time, [...]
I’m primarily a Opera user, but I do have Firefox installed on my computer. I use it when some sites give me trouble with Opera. Of course I have gotten use to some features that Opera has (such as saving your browsing session upon closing the browser). There are even a few features you can [...]
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I’ve used Google before to do searches for scientific articles and information, when PubMed had not been really effective. Now Google has come out with a search system geared towards researchers and people in the academic world looking for information: Google Scholar. It has no ads, is free and is very useful when it comes [...]
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If you are an information junkie (like me) or just need to find some information (and take a break from Google), check out Wikipedia. It’s a free online encyclopedia which I found recently. Anyone can contribute to it, which makes it a truly ingenious way to store the knowledge of humanity. Of course there are [...]
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During this past week, I finally received my new 40 GB iPod (4th generation). Main reason for the purchase was to replace my 20 GB Nomad Zen, since my music collection could no longer fit on it (yes, I do have that much music, all legal, ripped from my own CD collection in MP3 format, [...]