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Kindle DRM Deadline is Approaching!

Sorry for the last-minute, sky-is-falling post today, but I just learned what Amazon was up to this weekend and wanted to get the word out before it’s too late.
If you’ve bought eBooks for the Amazon Kindle family of devices or apps, you should know that Amazon is disabling a key feature that makes it easy to strip the DRM from those books. On the 26th, they’re going to turn off manual…

Just Say No To (Most) Notifications

You know the feeling, you’re getting a lot done and feeling really productive and then your phone makes that little beep-boop-buzz sound that says “Hey you! Pay attention to me!” So you stop what you were doing and pick up your phone to see what your favorite screen decided was so important that it had to interrupt you.

“We’re celebrating February 21st with 21% off at Wingstop if you order in the…

I'm Declaring Email Bankruptcy

I’ve known that email is broken for a long time, but I was hoping, when I started researching this week’s newsletter, that I’d find some piece of software that would just fix my email problems—a magic bullet of an email client, setup to handle multiple email addresses seamlessly, while keeping me from missing important messages from my contacts, all without requiring a bunch of tedious daily maintenance. If AI is worth anything…

Unfucking Windows For Fun and Profit

There was a time, not that long ago, when you’d buy a new computer and the first thing you did with it was fire something up to see how fast it was, instead of clicking “No thanks” on a bazillion offers for cloud storage and anti-virus and other subscriptions you probably don’t need.
Setting up a new PC (or Mac) these days really makes me miss the days when Windows was a…