How to use an Amazon Kindle to simplify your life

How to use an Amazon Kindle to simplify your life: "If you like to read, there have become a lot more ways to read in the past few years. The old fashioned way of reading paper books is getting less popular, while using an e reader and a tablet are becoming more popular all the time. Even reading on your computer is getting more popular. All of them are doable, but an ereader is the best way to read, and the Kindle is the best ereader."



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An Unofficial Guide To Goodreads For Readers And Writers

An Unofficial Guide To Goodreads For Readers And Writers: "In 2013 I read 51 books. That added up to 11,668 pages. Dedicated readers may scoff at that number, but that’s the most I have ever read in a year. The number wasn’t hit because of any New-Year-Eve self-improvement guilt, or anything like that. I just sort of fell into it."



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How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don't Accept It

How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don't Accept It: "I’m at a point in my Internet-obsessed life where PayPal is the preferred payment method that I choose to pay for just about anything. If you’re a self-employed person who works online and from home, I can imagine you being in a similar predicament."



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Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key

Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key: "Chris Hoffman
On 23rd April, 2014
Windows



Windows 8 and 8.1 PCs no longer have a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) sticker with their product key printed on it. This helps prevent theft — people can’t just glance at a sticker on your laptop to get your Windows product key. On the other hand, you can’t simply look at a sticker on your Windows PC when you reinstall the operating system. You’ll have to find the 25-digit product key elsewhere."



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The Cubicle You Call Hell Was Designed to Set You Free | Design | WIRED

The Cubicle You Call Hell Was Designed to Set You Free | Design | WIRED: "In 1964, the iconic furniture design company Herman Miller unveiled an office plan unlike anything anyone had ever seen. Called Action Office, it was the brainchild of Robert Propst, who was among the first designers to argue that office work was mental work and that mental effort was tied to environmental enhancement of one’s physical capabilities. Rather than a furniture item or a collection of them, Action Office was a proposition for an altogether new kind of space."



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How to Perform a Clean Install of Windows 8.1 With a Windows 8 Key

How to Perform a Clean Install of Windows 8.1 With a Windows 8 Key: "Windows 8.1 is a free upgrade to all Windows 8 users, but you normally can’t install Windows 8.1 with a Windows 8 product key. Luckily, you can get around this limitation if you really want a fresh install of Windows 8.1.

Microsoft also only allows you to download Windows 8.1 installation media with a Windows 8.1 key, so we’ll show you another trick that allows you to download Windows 8.1 installation media with a valid Windows 8 key."



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Netflix Arrives On Cable Providers’ TiVo DVRs In The U.S. For The First Time | TechCrunch

Netflix Arrives On Cable Providers’ TiVo DVRs In The U.S. For The First Time | TechCrunch: "Keep your friends, close, but your enemies closer – that might be the mantra running through the heads of cable execs at Atlantic Broadband, Grande Communications and RCN, U.S. regional cable providers who are the first such companies in the U.S. to offer Netflix access bundled with TV service. Subscribers will still have to have their own Netflix accounts, Engadget reports, but now there’s a Netflix app built right into the TiVo DVRs offered by those cable providers mentioned above, with content that lives right alongside broadcast and cable channels."



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OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?

OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?: "OpenOffice.org was once the open-source office suite of choice, but it fractured into two separate projects — Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Never mind Oracle Open Office, which was actually a closed-source office suite and was discontinued."



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