12Feb

O’Reilly does eBooks…

I have been a Safari subscriber for a while now and access to O’Reilly titles has been the main reason behind it. However, I recently discovered that O’Reilly is offering full eBooks of some of its titles. Why the offering is far from complete, this is progress and the prospect of donloading complete books with [...]

11Nov

Other uses for the middle mouse button

Here’s another one of those things that I discovered while being clumsy: in Firefox, click on your middle mouse button/wheel while hovering over a tab and it will close it; you don’t even need to click on the close icon. Evince, the PDF viewer favoured by Ubuntu, also makes use of the middle mouse button: [...]

03Apr

The joys of eBooks

One of the nice things about eBooks is the saving that you can make on buying one instead of the dead tree edition. And if you get one from Apress, it is the full article that you get and they keep it available so that you can download another version if you need it. You [...]