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Enabling Other Languages on Amazon’s New Kindle Fire tablet

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

IMPORTANT: The source code and all future development of this application is now moved to GitHub. Please use that page in the future: https://github.com/shaftekbiz/android-language-settings-app ---------------- One of the interesting aspects of the new Kindle Fire is how much Amazon had customized or simply overrode the default UI, including some of the settings pages. ...

Garden Project 2011: Introduction

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

As in the years past, my family is trying a hand at gardening this year again. In this post, I am going to outline what we have done in the past, what worked and what didn't, before moving on to this year's experiment. All of this information is for Baltimore ...

Installing Eclipse Visual Editor 1.5 on Ubuntu 10.10

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

I had been recently kicking around some coding ideas but until now all of my hobby coding has been done in Perl. I wanted to try something browser-based which led me back to Java, so of course I installed Eclipse as my IDE. However, I ran into an issue when ...

Old Projects Retired

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

After some digital housecleaning today, I retired a whole bunch of old projects which no longer serve a purpose or where better alternatives exist. One of these, track2rss, consumes 75% of all resources of my current hosting for this site.

PublicDomainReprints.org Transitioning

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

As of September 2010, this project will be transitioning shortly to a search engine for public domain books and reprints. Thank you for your support.

QOOP Now Sells Google Books via Print on Demand

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Announcement here: http://my.qoop.com/forums/announcements/85/ Actual books available here: http://my.qoop.com/google/

Nabu Press = BiblioBazaar

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

For the past year or so, I have noticed a lot of new public domain books appearing in Amazon under Nabu Press. They seem to have no website and their books do not have any contact information, and I have gotten many inquiries from people thinking that my site, PublicDomainReprints.org ...

Hard Cover Support Added for PublicDomainReprints.org

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Over the weekend, I added hard cover support to PublicDomainReprints.org. All requests will now produce both soft and hard cover reprints.

New Abuse Reporting Format Draft Posted

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Murray Kucherawy of SendMail has kindly taken over the editing of my ARF drafts. He just posted another version (-07), which you can find here. You can find all previous versions here.

Problems with Google Checkout Payouts

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

I am currently having issues with receiving money that people paid to my business with Google Checkout. I have contacted customer service and here is the reply I got: Thanks for notifying us of this situation, which our engineering team is currently addressing. When this issue is resolved, we'll contact you ...