kata Drew » computer http://katadrew.com die klenar kesel kuchdal iwar Tue, 15 May 2012 15:49:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copy and Paste from Kindle for PC http://katadrew.com/2011/copy-and-paste-from-kindle-for-pc/ http://katadrew.com/2011/copy-and-paste-from-kindle-for-pc/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:49:10 +0000 drew http://katadrew.com/?p=13497 Update: a new version of Kindle for PC (1.5.0) allows copying within the program. Upgrade to make the method below obsolete.

Here’s the method I use to copy and paste text from Kindle for PC.

Step #1: Enable Public Notes

Login to your Amazon/Kindle account at http://kindle.amazon.com. Browse to the book you want to copy and paste from.

And enable public notes by clicking the unlock button.

Step #2: Highlight in Kindle for PC

Open Kindle for PC and highlight the text you wish to copy and paste.

Step #3: Sync to Update

In the Kindle for PC menu click Tools and select Sync to Furthest Page Read.

Step #4: Refresh and Copy and Paste

Refresh the book’s kindle.amazon.com page and look for your highlight in plain text.

There you go. Now you can copy and paste.

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Download

CUE Player 0.57c (156kb)

Installation

Unzip and put gen_cue.dll and in_cue.dll in Winamp’s plugin folder under Program Files (C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins). Restart Winamp (close and re-open).

Use

Open a .cue file with Winamp (right-click and “Open with”).

Links of interest

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]]> http://katadrew.com/2008/firefox-3-beta-4/feed/ 0 WordPress 2.5RC-1 http://katadrew.com/2008/wordpress-25rc-1/ http://katadrew.com/2008/wordpress-25rc-1/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:43:46 +0000 Drew http://katadrew.com/?p=172 After seeing all the flummery about the new WordPress 2.5 and the screen shots of the the admin section, I decided to dive in. Actually it wasn’t that straight forward. Upgrading always makes me nervous. So, I upgraded via svn a test blog I keep tucked away online. It worked like a breeze. Praise the Lord for svn. “Svn up” and you’re done. I then decided to svn up this blog, but the oddest thing happened, or didn’t happen: “svn up” doesn’t work on this blog. On my test blog it automatically grabs the latest beta/nightly release and upgrades, but the “svn up” doesn’t work on this one. I’m bewildered. I read something about checking the file and directory permissions for a solution, but that didn’t help though several files and directories needed their permissions changed. Svn didn’t fail me totally with this blog though. Instead of svn up I used “svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/” and bingo. Why “switch” works and not “update” is beyond me; nonetheless, WordPress 2.5 release candidate 1 is up and going with a beautiful, slick back end. All my plugins are still working as far as I can tell. Well done, WordPress.

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For more info about using Google Reader offline, see this page.

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WordPress, Gutenberg would be proud!

]]> http://katadrew.com/2007/wordpress-23/feed/ 0 Redeeming the Time, or Get Off the Computer http://katadrew.com/2007/redeeming-the-time-or-get-off-the-computer/ http://katadrew.com/2007/redeeming-the-time-or-get-off-the-computer/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:02:18 +0000 Drew http://katadrew.com/2007/redeeming-the-time-or-get-off-the-computer/ Joshua Harris has a good post My One and Only Week on Facebook in which he gives several reasons for his ditching the famed socialization portal:

  1. “I don’t need another reason for staring at a computer screen.”
  2. “I found that it encouraged me to think about me even more than I already do…I need to grow in self-forgetfulness. I need to worry more about what God is thinking of me. I need to be preoccupied with what he’s written in his word, not what somebody just wrote on my ‘wall.’”
  3. “And, finally, I need to read more.”

Computers can be a double sin (if there’s such a thing): creating opportunity for sin and keeping one from more profitable things.

Have many books could I have read with all the time I’ve wasted on my laptop?

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