LibriVox Gives Free Audiobooks
October 24, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under The Free World.
If you’ve been wondering where to get free audiobooks the legal way, then it’s time to check out LibriVox. The audiobooks here are available in mp3 or ogg formats so you could easily download them to your own computer and listen to them. And the nice thing about this is that there’s a collective team of people who volunteer to read these books aloud so that we could enjoy listening to them for free. You might not be getting the latest commercial books in audio format but these books are within the public domain already so that’s …read more
Manage Collections with Tellico
October 4, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under applications
If you’re a collector like me then you probably have spreadsheets of these things you’ve collected in the past how many months or even years. Personally I only started becoming aware of the need to keep track of all these things. I think it’s partly because I am running out of shelf space. And some of my books ended up on my sister’s shelves. Tsk, it’s really time for me to sort things out!
Tell It to Tellico…
And Tellico will save just about everything you enter in the application. This is not a difficult application to …read more
Pragmatic Programmers’ new book: Ubuntu Kung Fu
July 10, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Books
The book promises “Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints and Hacks” for Ubuntu users and those who are thinking about using Ubuntu.
The excerpts of Ubuntu Kung Fu are on Pragmatic Programmer’s website. I think that the excerpts are great. I even learned about the screenlets and the desktop recording function. I never knew about these things until tonight. Though there have been desklets from before, I think that screenlets look more polished than the desklets I’ve seen before. As for the desktop recording tool which saves in animated GIFs, I think it’s really cool because you could …read more






