Saving space in OS X and other netbook tips

Update April 3rd 2009: Added the section on removing the hibernate image. Saved me 2 GB.
My place is under renovation right now so I’m spending the next week either on couches or on a matress on the floor. When I’m borrowing room like this I need to conserve space so I took my hackintosh Dell [...]

Apple OS X Leopard on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9

As of this writing the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is the most compatible with Leopard out of all the netbooks. You can install from a retail copy and just about everything works. Here’s a few tips.

Eager to get my eSlick

I’m gearing up for my FoxIt eSlick.  My eSlick won’t arrive for quite some time but I’m still gathering information on converting ebooks to PDF. So far my biggest sources of ebooks are text files from Project Gutenberg, CHM files from O’Reilly books (apparently PDFCHM.com keeps a database of books that come with free PDFs [...]

#CUTC second keynote: Debow of Rypple on Startups

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Daniel Debow of Rypple is speaking. Talking about startups.
First startup was Workbrain. Grew quickly since 2000, sold in 2007 for $227 million. Grew revenue by about $20 million US per year since 2001. Latest startup is Rypple, started about six months ago.

#CUTC notes from Open Text keynote

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The speaker was Eugene Roman from Open Text.
About 10% of the crowd has heard of Open Text. Eugene’s job is to change that. Started at Waterloo from two professors. First project was to put the Oxford dictionary online. Made the first internet search engine. Largest ECM vendor as of 2007.

Using inept to strip DRM for better viewing

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I remove DRM whenever possible because I lost a few iTunes tracks. Also, since the FoxIt eSlick won’t work with DRM immediately, I wanted to be able to test how readily I could use purchases on my eink reader. I’m not intending to pirate ebooks here. It turns out that until a new [...]