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Get Your Current eBook Library On Your iBooks Bookshelf with Calibre

Get Your Current eBook Library On Your iBooks Bookshelf with Calibre | 40Tech

One of the most annoying things about eReader apps on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad (that have their own dedicated stores) is their proprietary nature — namely, they generally only read books you have purchased from their respective companies, regardless of the library you already own. This can be a pain, as it leads to both multiple eReader apps on your phone and several books inevitably left twisting in the proverbial wind. You can use Stanza for iPhone to solve this problem, but why not put all of your books on that pretty iBooks bookshelf? As of version 0.7, Calibre lets you do just that!

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Three Online Radio Sites That Make Music Easy (and Radio Kind of Good Again)

Do you hate your local radio stations with a blinding passion? If not, you’re probably at least a little bit tired of hearing the same pop princess on the airwaves over and over and over and… well, you get the idea. Don’t despair! You’ve probably heard there are at least a few sites out there that do their best to provide you with alternatives to your local stations, and make it easy to find and lock into what you need. These are sites that will bring you real radio from around the world, as opposed to the often licence-restricted Last.FM or Pandora — and three of the best out there are RadioTuna, RadioTime, and Tun3r. Each have their good points — read on to see which will work best for you.

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Windows Live Messenger for iPhone Shows Promise But Has a Ways To Go

Windows Live Messenger for iPhone | 40Tech

If you are a dedicated Windows Live Messenger user and own an iPhone, you may want to take a gander at the official, recently released (and free) iPhone app for the longstanding IM service. The new Live Messenger app is fairly slick and easy to navigate, has push notifications, displays updates from many of the services you can integrate with in your Windows Live account — including Facebook — and handles the job of basic messaging very well. That said, there are a few obvious gaps and design flaws that have made the experience a bit frustrating for some.

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How to Use Your Scanner as a Fax Machine

ringcentral Do you want to be able to send faxes from home, without having to install another phone line, or share your current line?  How would you like to be able to receive faxes anywhere that you have an internet connection?  Or how about sending a fax via email?  That is all possible now, using online fax services.  The online fax service I’ve been using is RingCentral, an internet telephone service that also offers faxing.

Why RingCentral?  After a couple of years of coping with the flakiness of fax over VOIP, I decided I wanted a solution that was more reliable. I also needed a solution that was simple, since I wouldn’t be the only one using it.  RingCentral’s price was right, too, compared to other online fax services.  Read on for my impressions of RingCental, and an explanation of how I I set up RingCentral’s fax service, so that I could easily use my Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 and my computer to send faxes.  If you want to print faxes, you’ll also need a printer. Read more


Opera Mini for iPhone: First Impressions

Opera Mini for iPhone | First Impressions | 40Tech When I heard, yesterday, that Apple had approved the Opera Mini browser for iPhone, I was a bit more than surprised — I was shocked. Apple’s track record in rejecting any app that might interfere with their business plans or control over their userbase seemed to scream that there was absolutely no way they would let a competitor browser into their little empire. It was an exciting prospect: a blazingly fast, low data-impact, full-featured browser? With features that Mobile Safari is painfully lacking like on-page search? Oh I had to see this for myself! In my testing, I discovered a lot of cool features — unfortunately, though, I came away from my first few runs of Opera Mini more than a bit disappointed.

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