this post may be useful to people out there trying to read on a Kindle the O’Reilly books they acquired from the Android Market O’Reilly is a competent, decent and not-evil publisher of technical books. They know that DRM only causes pain to good costumers, because bad customers will find other ways to access/steal their books. I therefore feel respected as a customer and retribute by buying lots of e-books from them :-).…

I bought an HTC Magic a few weeks ago. One of the its coolest thing is the sheer number of apps in the Android Market. There are actually too many and finding the good ones requires lots of searching and testing. These are the ones I use the most so far: - Wapedia, which greatly optimizes the wikipedia display for mobile devices. - Pixelpipe, to upload media to Flickr easily.…

Last October I set an Ubuntu desktop for Carla’s family. We live very far away from them, so it was important that their system was resilient, otherwise it wouldn’t last long. They are all beginners in this internet thing, so installing Windows for them would have been a bad idea. And I was right. Things ran pretty smoothly, we talked via Skype very often, with no signs of virus or crashes.…