Just when digital artefacts threaten to take over our cultural heritage entirely, Birmingham’s new library in the heart of the English Midlands makes no bones about the fact that the physicality of the printed word still matters. Continue reading
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SIMPLE LIVING – 30 DAYS TO LESS STUFF & MORE LIFE by Lorilee Lippincott (Free Kindle ebook)
The clean slate of a new year is as good a time as any to strive towards a goal of achieving a simpler life and an uncluttered existence.
This slim volume will take little more than a couple of hours to read but significantly longer to put its recommendations into practice.
What the splendidly named Lorilee Lippincott advocates is “right-sizing your life” on the principle that if we get our heads and homes more organised, we have more time to focus on things we really need and love. Continue reading
On reflection, the title of this post is likely to attract the wrong demographic, but I always was a sucker for alliteration!
I should just issue a warning to screen-agers and other techno-savvy persons that what follows is not a cutting edge list of links or game recommendations but merely a note to self of ten dependable, easy to use and (mostly) free Apps I have come to know and trust.
1. Good Reader ($4.99) – This is my numero uno by a large margin. I read a lot of PDF files/books and prior to discovering this little beauty, I had to rely on a wi-fi connection and keep re-accessing the same document over and over. With this App you can save files in a form that allows you to manage, read and annotate offline. Transferring stuff is dead easy, either direct from websites or via file sharing sites like Dropbox.
2. Zite (Free) – Zite finds articles from various websites and organizes them into categories of your choosing. The more you use it, the more it gets to know what you like. I know there are alternatives that allow you to build your own personalised ‘magazine’ (e.g. Paper.li and Flipboard) but I currently prefer Zite as it does the virtual legwork for me. Continue reading
